andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/25/2009
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This small study hasn't been replicated but it blew my mind . The resilient gap between black and white test scores is one of the most intractable and debilitating social facts of our age. If any part of it can be erased by a psychological shift in the hearts and minds of African-American ...
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The “Obama effect”
Balloon Juice —
Sully says this blew his mind. It doesn’t surprise me at all:
In the study made public on Thursday, Dr. Friedman and his colleagues compiled a brief test, drawing 20 questions from the verbal sections of the Graduate Record Exam, and administering it four times to about 120 white and black test-takers during last year’s presidential campaign. In total, 472 Americans — 84 blacks and 388 whites — took the exam. Both white and black test-takers ranged in age from 18 to 63, and their educational attainment ranged ...
The Obama Effect
Balloon Juice —
... A small study found that Obama’s success almost erased the racial testing difference in a demographically matched sample of urban public school students. To his credit Andrew linked this study. However, it remains unpublished (as far as I know) and thus is the weakest of the lot. ...
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