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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: AA/Quota's, etc, why I don't like them...
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 14:12:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 14:12:14 1985
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> That report led to AA precisely because its results suggested that
> the effect of education on career achievements, after taking out
> factors the most important of which was Father's occupation, was
> practically NIL.  No effect, no program.
> 
> Projections based on collected data indicate that improving education
> will not affect racial differences in life career paths AT ALL.  Chris
> Jencks' book, "Who Gets Ahead", refines and fixes these statements some
> more, taking into account new data, but the predictions remain the same:
> improving education will have no effect on the US's racially unequal
> distribution of careers.  Noting the strong effects of father's
> occupations through all this research, overwhelming any school effects,
> Jencks says that the way to redistribute careers is to redistribute
> careers.  Makes sense.  If father's occupation is most of what matters,
> then changing father's occupation will help the children.
> 
> 
> Tony Wuersch
> {amd,amdcad}!cae780!ubvax!tonyw
> 
So, education has no effect on career achievements.  We sure could save 
a lot of money if we just closed all the schools.-)  We could hold a
lottery to see who gets what job.  What could be more unbiased than that!
Seriously, I would be curious if anyone on the net besides Mr. Wuersch
believes this drivel.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan