Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Quote of the Day: 28 June 2023 #QOTD

“[S]tatistical disparities are commonplace among human beings. Many historical and cultural reasons underlie the peculiar patterns observed. But the even ‘representation’ of groups chosen as a baseline for measuring discrimination is a myth rather than an established fact.” -Thomas Sowell
“[S]tatistical disparities are commonplace among human beings. Many historical and cultural reasons underlie the peculiar patterns observed. But the even ‘representation’ of groups chosen as a baseline for measuring discrimination is a myth rather than an established fact.” -Thomas Sowell
[Pretending that every subset of society should perfectly reflect the proportions of racial groups (or any other manner of segmenting society) in society at large is a strange thought. But we seem to have largely accepted it.]

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