The authors entertain the idea that stereotyping may be "epistemically rational" but then conduct a poll that purports to show that many "Bayesian Racists" are not motivated by accuracy and so are indeed irrational. The description of the poll methodology is remarkably thin. For example, no non-response rate is presented and there appears to be no validation of the Bayesian racist scale. Still, I am relieved to report that not all apparatchiks are as innumerate as Newsweek's Shankar Vedantam.
Update: The Occidenalist has further comment.
Update: The Occidenalist has further comment.
2 comments:
The questions are too vague: they should be more scenarios like: "Your mother's car breaks down at night in a _____ neighborhood without her cell phone charged, should she walk to the service station she sees two blocks away?"
But that assumes you like your mother?
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