The Logic of Life: Racial segregation

The Logic of Life: Racial segregation and Thomas Schelling's chessboard model. Explained by Tim Harford

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[artisbreathing]

That is pure brilliance.

[carlosspicey]

So true

[DeepSetEyesDance]

@pietrogonzalez420 I agree,if people were not intentionally irrational then this world would be a Paradise to live in.A free choice exists whether to be and act upon being a rational or an irrational person.The majority of people although have a clear-cut understanding/knowledge of RIGHT from WRONG-always choose to be act upon being irrational as they find that that's what gives them the quickest instantaneous rush of pleasure to the brain-this wrong type of pleasure does not last long.

[mmawilldesha]

@DeepSetEyesDance During the transatlantic slave trade most slaves actually went to Latin America and the caribbean islands and many countries in the west had slavery but I don't think many of them have the history of racism that America has. America has a very ugly history Native American genocide,Slavery,Jim Crow,the mistreatment of Irish, and Italian immigrants etc. I wonder can a country with that kind of histroy really change? This country was pretty much built on racism.

[mmawilldesha]

@DeepSetEyesDance While some of my opinions have changed since that comment was posted I still stand by that comment. I think i'm a bit of a dogmatic thinker when it comes to certain things like racial segregation and I guess that's my southern upbringing showing itself, we have a culture of ignorance here unlike any other. Don't get me wrong there is nothing natural about racism, it is learned behavior but I just wonder after 450+ years of fighting is it really worth it? I really don't know.

[DeepSetEyesDance]

@mmawilldesha awaiting them?white meddling,looting and GREEDINESS that will inform the black returnees that they(whites) have always been an intricately paradox bunch who will never leave Africa alone-while at the same time proclaiming to want separation.I have every colour's blood in my veins and i am not a racist of any kind,i merely state the unquestionable truth.

[DeepSetEyesDance]

@mmawilldesha They should have been peacefully orchestrating their going back home to Africa,but even if they had successfully done that-hoping to finally exhale away the remaining vestige of their heart's hurt/wounds,they would have painfully come to the cruel realization that they(whites)are everywhere intentionally sabotaging,destabilizing countries/continents whose natural wealth they feel is/has to become theirs at all consciously immoral costs.All blacks could go back to Africa-but what is

[TheDrCN]

@oddtreenow2 Of course they score lower, white people write the tests. There is a lot of cultural bias. Also, the more we segregate, the more blacks have to live in ghettos, which just increases the negative stereotypes. As for evolution, there is no such thing as "more evolved", only better suited to an environment. Black people (on average) are stronger, faster, have a better sense of rhythm, and don't get sun-burned.

Also, a genius is a genius however many morons share his racial heritage.

[MrWatchdawg77]

Forced integration is more wrong than forced segregation!

[pietrogonzalez420]

bs people are irrational too

[antoshahorosha]

wtf is this logical fallacy, the bloody conclusion is the premise, f**k off!

[jonywho]

The math behind it isn't astonishing...at all. Of course if you have a mixed focus group with only two variables and you choose to split them in half by using a 2/1 ratio.. of course they're going to divide in half. . . . BUT I GET THE MESSAGE <3 and I love the message. Shared on facebook and everything ^_^ But I just wanted to get it out there that the math behind it wasn't anywhere near astonishing.