Hmmm... if you weren't so sloppy and casual in your reading of your opponents' posts, you would know that this example is right in my ball park of the sort of thing I believe the government should do. See my dialogue with SealyBobo, in the 'How to Create More Racists' thread. (I'll be polite here and refrain from calling you a dishonest liar and slanderer with your assertion that I believe Blacks are inferior. You're just an ignoramus with a casual attitude towards the truth. But Trotsky did observe that, in politics, "It is rare to meet an honest opponent.")
However, I have to thank you as well. I had not heard of Harris Rosen and his experiment at Tangelo Park -- the results completely reinforce my belief that 'Education' and 'Environment' -- ie interventions by the government, which will require tax money -- can have a positive effect on the Black situation. (Although once the government gets involved, as opposed to private individuals, you can divide the positive outcomes by a factor of three or four.)
It's an excellent example of what can be done -- in some situations -- and one which I will shamelessly steal from you to use in future discussions and polemics, without credit.
However, "in some situations" is the operative phrase. Elsewhere, in time, I'll start a thread on this issue, and discuss the limitations of such interventions, while also proposing some ways of implementing 'Education' and 'Environment' changes.
I'll just note here that big urban ghettos are a world away from Tangelo Park, with its small (3000) population, high percentage of homeowners, and pre-existing committed community leaders. You can't expect to just scale up. AND ... note that the government had no role in Tangelo Park It's an all-volunteer effort. Trying to do the same with government employees and government rules and regulations will not be easy, to put it mildly.
A personal interest of mine is mathematics education. And I can give you a dozen examples of where an intervention in a particular school, testing some novel way to teach mathematics that would improve children's comprehension -- usually as part of an academic study -- seemed to have powerful, benign effects on children's learning of mathematics. But then these experiments never seemed to be replicable. Some of that was probably do to selective reporting, but some of it was probably due to what sociologists call the 'Hawthorne Effect' (or the 'Observer Effect'.) [The original 'Hawthorne Effect' was probably mostly spurious, but the general principle is valid. More about it here: [
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Nonetheless, Harris Rosen's work should be much more widely known. Perhaps Mr Gates, Mr Soros, and other billionaires could divert some of their money away from the Left into attempts to replicate the Tangelo Park results.
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