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Is the World a Horrible Place?
Physicist Gregory Cochran asks, well, how would the world look different if I was right? And his view is, no, it's basically the world couldn't look any different because I'm trying to make up my ideas based on what it currently actually exists. The bell curve is a sensible look at how the world works as it was 28 years ago, and things haven't changed a whole lot since then. In the US, you hear a lot of in the US, most people, when they answer opinion polls or against affirmative action and college admissions. There isn't any acceptable way to explain to the general public that yet at the Ivy League, it would be about 1% black