Roland Fryer
14 statements across 6 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2023 by Joe Lonsdale · said 11 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Jan 11, 2023 positive
Lonsdale: Roland Fryer found paying students for grades outperformed smaller classes
“He tested all these different things, like what, where they use the money best, and there's one thing is, like, people say smaller class sizes matter, and he tested all of it, and the thing he found in these poor inner cities that actually had the biggest impa…”
Feb 29, 2024 positive
Sep 20, 2024 positive
Fryer: Houston charter-practice experiment closed the racial math achievement gap
“We took those five things and we put them in a randomized experiment in Houston in the worst 20 schools there.
And what we showed was that
In three years in the secondary schools, you could close, ah, the racial achievement gap in math, and in five to seven ye…”
Sep 20, 2024 positive
Sep 20, 2024 neutral
Fryer: Police Study Found Racial Bias in Non-Lethal Force, None in Shootings
“And what we found was that on the lower level uses of force, there are racial differences that we couldn't explain. And we put them through formal bias test, and there is bias that goes on in the lower level uses of force. What we didn't find was any, that tha…”
Sep 20, 2024 positive
Fryer: Paying students for inputs like homework was wildly successful
“When we paid kids to, so we did two types of experiments. One, we paid them for inputs, right? So we paid them to do specific behaviors or accomplish very specific things that we wanted them to do. Do your homework. Come to school. Don't beat people up. Stuff …”
Sep 20, 2024 positive
Fryer: Pure meritocracy yields both higher productivity and diversity by eliminating bias
“If companies have bias, then
Meritocracy is completely consistent with a DEI strategy.
Because what you, because if you're getting to your talent frontier and you have bias, you're removing that bias and you're saying, look, I'm just going to hire the best p…”
Sep 20, 2024
Fryer: Five practices explain 50% of charter school performance variance
“We went around to
charter schools, some successful and some not, and we used their flexibility and their natural variation in their policies and how they, what they do with kids and their pedagogy, et cetera, to extract from that five things that explain 50% …”
Sep 20, 2024 neutral
Sep 20, 2024
Fryer: Black-White Median Wage Gap Is Unchanged Since 1950
“If you have the 90th percentile, there's been a lot of convergence between blacks and whites in the last 30 or 40 years, right? But if you're at the median, there's been no, the black white wage gap at the median is the same today as it was in 1950.”
Sep 20, 2024 negative
Feb 14, 2025 negative
Lonsdale: Claudine Gay targeted Roland Fryer over police violence research
“And of course, Clyde and Gay, who at the time wasn't even president yet, but she was like a big internal African-American woman activists at Harvard. She went after him and she found a former student who, and she got the former student from like 10 years ago t…”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Lonsdale: Roland Fryer's research showed paying students for good grades worked best
“So one of his studies he did a long time ago was, he comes from the inner city himself as a black man, and he went to these Kids who were underperforming, and he tried to test what interventions would work, and it turned out, after trying lots of things, actua…”