Losing ground
American social policy, 1950-1980
by Charles A. Murray · first published 1984
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Haha, I always like the allergic reaction where one guy pulls a strawman. By the way, you ought to read Losing Ground on the negative effects of the Welfare system. ANd this came from a guy who wanted to sum up the positive effects of it in the first place, who ended up being shocked by the data he gathered. http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Ground-American-Social-1950-198...…
on “The Government Shutdown Has Revealed Silicon Valley’s Dysfunction Fetish” ↗…something that benefits the poor. Welfare policies have been shown at multiple times to actually harm the poor in the long run, not benefit them. There are entire books written on that topic. Check out Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 from Charles Murray.
on “Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture” ↗Abominable as it is, my views are not just based on the Bell Curve's race-IQ discussion. * In Losing Ground, Murray talks about about how welfare should be restricted because Black people are having too many kids. His book had a great deal of influence on the "welfare reform" instituted in the mid-1990s in…
Charles Murray, author of * Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 * Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 * Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing American Schools Back to Reality * Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 Oh, and The Bell Jar, although…
on “Taleb is wrong about IQ” ↗…Most of the policies (on either side) are not evidence-based and actually have counter-productive effects in the long run (Charles Murray explained this through several cases, for example, in his book "Losing Ground"). However I am not sure about how relevant it is for the Singaporean examples to have had "scientific background". If you do not work in the actual science field and never used it, your background is…
on “Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists?” ↗…1973. At that time, about 63% of black and poor persons lived in a single-female headed household. By 1978, with incarceration rates still within their historical range, the rate was nearly 70% (source Losing Ground by Charles Murray). Family structure breakdown came first, it was not caused by incarceration. It is wishful thinking to believe that if all these men were not locked up they would be upstanding and faithful…
on “Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers” ↗…well-meaning whites fear that they are closet racists, and this book tells them they are not. It's going to make them feel better about things they already think but do not know how to say.” —regarding his book, Losing Ground, quoted in “Daring Research or Social Science Pornography?: Charles Murray,” The New York Times Magazine, 1994 “The professional consensus is that the United States has experienced dysgenic pressures…
on “The Dying Art of Disagreement” ↗Many years ago, long before "The Bell Curve", I spent way, way too much time reading Murray's book "Losing Ground" (1984) and going to the library to read the papers he referenced and reading the papers those papers referenced and then the papers those papers referenced. My conclusion was that his book is junk. My…
on “Revisiting Stereotype Threat” ↗