Comments on: Bill Bennett’s Gaffe http://www.juliansanchez.com/2005/10/02/bill-bennetts-gaffe/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: delong http://www.juliansanchez.com/2005/10/02/bill-bennetts-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-776 delong Sat, 08 Oct 2005 07:19:18 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1133#comment-776 Well I, for one, am pessimistic about sociological conditions changing sufficiently in the next thirty years.... But you are right, there is a tinge in Bennett... a guy who has never been known to approve of sociological causation... who blames criminality on a lack of moral virtue (either one's own or one's parents)... So touche. Which reeducation camp do I report to? Brad DeLong Well I, for one, am pessimistic about sociological conditions changing sufficiently in the next thirty years…. But you are right, there is a tinge in Bennett… a guy who has never been known to approve of sociological causation… who blames criminality on a lack of moral virtue (either one’s own or one’s parents)…

So touche.

Which reeducation camp do I report to?

Brad DeLong

]]> By: J. Goard http://www.juliansanchez.com/2005/10/02/bill-bennetts-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-775 J. Goard Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:16:24 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1133#comment-775 <i>That is, you have to suppose not just that 2005 America is such that blacks commit more crimes (which is true), but that they're intrinsically more likely to commit crimesââ?¬â?that this will hold true 20 years from now or 30 or whenever.</i> And also that crime is such that is primarly results from "crime-proneness" factors internal to certain individuals or their subcultures, as opposed to having a major basis in hawk-dove game theory such that others in the general population would pick up the slack. That is, you have to suppose not just that 2005 America is such that blacks commit more crimes (which is true), but that they’re intrinsically more likely to commit crimesââ?¬â?that this will hold true 20 years from now or 30 or whenever.

And also that crime is such that is primarly results from “crime-proneness” factors internal to certain individuals or their subcultures, as opposed to having a major basis in hawk-dove game theory such that others in the general population would pick up the slack.

]]> By: Julian Sanchez http://www.juliansanchez.com/2005/10/02/bill-bennetts-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Julian Sanchez Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:55:50 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1133#comment-774 No. He was using the comment to illustrate the problems with cost/benefit sorts of arguments about abortion; I don't think the point had anything to do with statistical generalizations. No. He was using the comment to illustrate the problems with cost/benefit sorts of arguments about abortion; I don’t think the point had anything to do with statistical generalizations.

]]> By: Caliban http://www.juliansanchez.com/2005/10/02/bill-bennetts-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Caliban Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:13:50 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1133#comment-773 Wasn't he using the "abort all black babies" comment as an example of the stupidity of generalizing statistics? I don't like Bennett much, but that was what I got from the full context. Wasn’t he using the “abort all black babies” comment as an example of the stupidity of generalizing statistics?

I don’t like Bennett much, but that was what I got from the full context.

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