^ The severe limitations of audit studies have been discussed seversl time on this site.
People using audit studies are not particularly open, or sometimes even aware, about the methods limitations. Pager, for example, pays lip service to the limitations but 1. does not actually take them into account when drawing her conclusions; 2. does clearly not understand some of them.
Do SJW profs create Trump supporters?
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Jesus people, it's not that complicated. You don't need to preach at your students.
We have mountains of data on poverty, on mass incarceration, on disparities in the education system. We have the god damn Pager audit study, we have the motherflipping Correll et al. audit study.
If you want to prove to your students that inequality and discrimination exist, just show them the data. It speaks for itself and it's a helluva lot more persuasive than getting up in front of your students and moralizing at them.I just show data vs moralize and you are correct it is persuasive, but only to students whos initial views were based on ignorance or misinformation. No amount of data will change deeply bigoted students from believing bigotry. i once had a fundamentalist christian in class who told me that gay people were the result of "god screwing up when forming the baby in the tummy" and that she would never believe otherwise "no matter how much data you shove down my throat"
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^ This is true. No amount of data will change deeply bigoted students. I had a SJW student in my criminology class who refused to believe that most imprisoned people in US are convicted of violent, not drug, offences, even after I showed her and the rest of the class data on it.
What data would you use to refute the student's view that homosexuality results from "god screwing up when forming the baby in the tummy"?
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she said that in response to my presenting the kinsey scale, reporting that homosexuality was no longer in the dsmv, and showing data on health and employment disparities by sexual orientation. she raised her hand and said what i wrote above and more. I had to cut her off because it became a hate filled rant.
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If you started blaming tall students for everything bad, saying they have height privilege, etc. at some point a political candidate will come and say, explicitly or not, that "it's OK to be tall", and tall people will start voting for him.
This should not be surprising to anyone, really.
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No amount of data will change deeply bigoted students from believing bigotry.
True. Ideally, universities teach them a respect for evidence and empirical data, but that doesn't always happen. However, I would argue that resolving bigotry is something other aspects of the university could achieve if executed well.
To the extent that universities do have a diverse range of students, facilitating intergroup contact on neutral, roughly equal-status terms can help remedy the bigotry you're talking about.