Race
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Friedberg: Socioeconomic status, not race, should drive admissions and hiring
“Race is not necessarily, it's certainly, there's a correlation, but it's not necessarily indicative of the socioeconomic disadvantage that someone may have faced and had to overcome in order to perform and succeed at the level that they could have given their …”
Albrecht: Benchmark performance differences vanish once ambiguous questions are cleaned
“The main takeaway from any of the, like, actual performance is like, once you fix these ambiguous examples, a lot of these benchmarks are really saturated. Like, I think it's important to look at like, you know, like when you're talking about performance on NL…”
Hughes: Race is a poor proxy for economic disadvantage
“Race is not correlated with who's poor and who who's rich or rather it's correlated, but it's not the best proxy. Right. It's much better to simply look at people's tax returns and income if you want to see who's rich.”
Hughes: Admissions Offices Should Evaluate Disadvantage Directly, Not Use Race Proxies
“My argument is always that you should just look directly at those proxies themselves. So if you're a college Admissions office and you want to help disadvantaged students get in. Okay, that's fine, but don't equate blackness with disadvantage. If you want to a…”
Jones: Colorblindness is a myth; the real issue is attached prejudices
“There's no such thing as colorblind. You need to see color. Seeing color is the most beautiful thing in the world. It's what we attach to that color.”
Williams: Modern racial categories originated directly from the transatlantic slave trade
“The way that we do race, the way that we came up with color, abstract color categories that group people along a scale of hierarchy, this was handed down to us from the slave trade. This is the product of the collision of Europe and Africa and the New World th…”