Social Justice For The Highly-Demanding-Of-Rigor

An early anti-Reactionary-series post arguing racism/sexism are real and costly, for readers who demand rigor. Marshals controlled evidence of discrimination — IATs, paired-tester audit studies (47% vs 11% job offers to matched white/black testers), white-sounding-resume callbacks, car-buying and housing audits, a Sydney bus experiment, gender salary/blind-audition studies — concluding discrimination explains much of the income gap and operates regardless of the discriminator's own race. Then (explicitly 'ending the demanding-of-rigor part') ballparks the economic cost of discrimination at ~$438B/yr (~= heart disease + cancer + half a 9/11), so even a 1% reduction is worth ~$4.4B. CAVEAT: leans partly on the now-shaky IAT/implicit-bias literature and audit studies of mixed replication, one cited finding (the Behavioral-Ecology blind-review result) is flagged false in the post itself, and the cost estimate is admittedly made up.

Quality 61 · Strong. 61 — low-Strong. A genuine, useful early synthesis whose core (audit-study evidence of real discrimination) holds up and assembled work nobody else had for this audience — but dragged by reliance on the shaky IAT, a self-flagged-false finding, and an admittedly hand-waved cost estimate.

Claude’s paradigm shift 44 · Moderate. 44 — Moderate. Assembling the discrimination-audit literature + a cost estimate for the rationalist audience was a competent, somewhat-novel synthesis in 2013.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. 2 — a within-discourse entry in his anti-Reactionary series; no material reach.