The Bean Counting Mentality: How to Turn a Statistic Into a Fallacy!

SEE HERE We're always hearing about disparities whether it is in hiring or in salaries or in the number of people of varying races or sex taking classes. It always seems to end up being assigned to some sort of prejudice or bias when there isn't a whit of evidence that that is the case. Thomas Sowell pegs a few ears back by showing some of the examples. The Victim Mentality is a large part of the problem. If something disturbs our expectations we're being victimized. It's mostly just not true and a rather poor way to think about the world too.