Fryer (2009) analyses the supposed phenomenon of “acting white,” when black students are chastised by black classmates for having a high level of academic achievement. He finds significant evidence for this phenomenon, as black students with GPA’s above 90% and who go to multiracial schools face higher levels of peer pressure and isolation from their black classmates, which can cause them to regress towards lower test scores. Although it doesn’t primarily explain the black-white test score gap, Fryer suggests that cultural differences may possibly be playing a role in it.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/an_empirical_analysis_of_acting_white.pdf

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There’s a reason the original Oreo cookie tastes better than all the weird looking new flavors

Steve King is really talking about Judeo-Christian values at AFPAC 😂😂😂

Just started reading this. Very good so far!

That sounds like something he would do

Supposedly this is a very popular book among new teachers. God help us
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/228021544.pdf

Sorry I haven’t been active recently. Lots of stuff going on! Hoping to be active more next week

This can’t be real 😂😂😂

Many past studies by epidemiologists and public health experts have found that minimum wage increases improve public health. Horn et al. (2016) challenges the view and find that it can actually decrease physical and mental health, especially among unemployed workers. Past studies that found improvements weren’t done by economists, and therefore cannot fully take into account the economic impacts minimum wage increases have on prices and unemployment.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22578/w22578.pdf

This is misleading because the bottom quintile doesn’t pay federal taxes (except payroll tax, which isn’t cut in this bill). It’s more accurate to say that it’s a massive no-strings-attached cash giveaway through the tax code.

The outline of Biden’s next reconciliation bill. More than $3 trillion dollars. I’m sure we can keep spending this much money and have no negative effects.

People I know unironically try to argue that black students are no more likely than white students to misbehave

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00687.x Study finds that the SAT is highly correlated with general cognitive ability (g). Therefore, by comparing SAT scores of different population groups, we can extrapolate differences in g with a relatively high level of certainty.

Basically, no one really knows where or how covid-19 originated, and we probably never will.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-china-hunt-covid-origins-11616004512?mod=mhp

A common claim among pro-immigrant activists is that immigrants are primarily seeking job opportunities and asylum in receiving countries, not welfare benefits. Agersnap et al. (2020) tests the welfare magnet hypothesis with an EU program limiting welfare benefits for non-citizens, but the policy was repealed after backlash. They found that the original policy significantly reduced immigration by about 5,000 per year for each country, and the repealed policy increased immigration by the exact same amount
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26454