The residual fallacy
Channel: aussieconservative
Date: 2011-09-27

Thomas Sowell explains the process of disaggregation, how it can affect data sets and how residual differences can be attributed to things such as 'discrimination' but they often don't mean a thing. This process is taken very seriously by people that share a common vision of the world. This is an except from Thomas Sowell's book "The Vision of the Anointed - Self Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy"