Rex Kerr
1 min readJun 15, 2023

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Oh really? Let's see it.

Here's a piece of evidence for my perspective: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184259/mean-earnings-by-educational-attainment-and-ethnic-group/

In case you don't see it at a glance: overall, 40% higher mean income for whites than blacks. But in each educational category, save "Professional Degree" (<4% of the population), there is a disparity but far lower (10-30%, with most around 15-20%). More education = good. More education = lower disparity. Not counting for feedback effects and the substructure of the data, a simple reading is that lack of education(al attainment) is literally half the problem.

More education = complete fix? Income = everything that matters? No. But "dramatically better"? Yeah.

If you're so sure improving education is "complete BS" maybe you wanna get these folks to quit their pointless (actually: amazing!) endeavor: https://hcz.org/

(P.S.: anyone reading who thinks improving education is NOT complete BS--check out HCZ if you haven't yet!)

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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