Jay P. Greene

Director of Research, Do No Harm. Senior Fellow, Defense of Freedom Institute. All opinions are my own.

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

My favorite brand of woke struggle session is the one where the wokes observe some inevitable consequence of a racist system they design and then blame everyone but themselves for the outcome.

Lower standards for admission=worse results, folks

[Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA]

Spanberger, who previously declared Governors shouldn’t interfere with the governance of universities, just fired the most beloved Rector in Va Tech history, John Rocovich.  The man who was the force behind recruiting James Franklin to save the football program, who has served twice before as Rector, who has given decades of his life to his beloved alma matter was fired without explanation.  This is a shameful act to appease her leftwing base & proves once again she is Governor Bait & Switch.

[Ginny Gentles @GinnyGentles]

@DFIPolicy @wajacobson https://t.co/bm5RoKhcLJ

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

How broken are educational doctoral programs?

"This study found that 56% of dissertations contained more than negligible (>10%) AI-generated writing; moreover, 19% of dissertations contained more than 50% AI-generated text."

[James V. Shuls @shulsie]

New report from my @fsuigc colleagues @ryan_j_owens and @WoodworthEDRE examines political donations among faculty and staff at Florida's five largest universities. I'm shocked. SHOCKED. to see that the vast majority of donations go to Democrats.

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

That single data point (Idaho) also formed the basis of another junk study that purported to show a link between so-called "anti trans" legislation and suicide, as I wrote about in @CityJournal.
The research behind pediatric gender med is a house of cards.
https://t.co/PXuQoVjJXt

[Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick]

Long overdue. Was just speaking with @jaypgreene @matthewladner & @matthewnielsen re: how economists won a Nobel Prize for a junk paper claiming that minimum wage laws don’t reduce jobs, but an economist who later proved they were wrong had a very hard time getting published.

[Jay P. Greene @jaypgreene]

They also propose a test to detect selection bias (students likely to have better outcomes being more likely to choose a same-race instructor). Despite failing their own test for bias they dismiss that result, saying "SAT scores are an imperfect measure of student ability" 3/

[Jay P. Greene @jaypgreene]

I understand that people have reasons for wishing to continue discriminatory practices in education and hiring, but I can't accept how they abuse the authority of "science" to present junk research claiming that outcomes would improve if only that discrimination were allowed. 1/

[Jay P. Greene @jaypgreene]

Despite concluding that "we find positive impacts of same-race matching, particularly for minoritized students," they find a significant negative effect on black graduation rates. They omit this negative result from the Abstract and Conclusion. 2/

[Jay P. Greene @jaypgreene]

Race-matching Junk, TX Islamic Schools, & SC's Mess https://t.co/9dTJl3RL46

[Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick]

It was evil enough when low-life scum were ripping down posters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas, but now garbage humans like this Canadian ham are tearing down posters about a missing 14-year-old Jewish girl in Toronto.

It’s not about Israel. It never was.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

DOJ: By Its Own Admission, Yale Med School Illegally Discriminates Against White, Asian Applicants https://t.co/ol3STa0dUn

[Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry]

Who'd a-Thunk It? The DEI Business Case Is Falling Apart https://t.co/vBVeoi8bsH

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

According to Dr. Simpson's "logic," Yale didn't discriminate against Jewish students back when it had a quota on Jewish students, because Jewish students were still "over-represented" relative to their share of the population. Nor did the governments of Poland, Romania, Hungary, etc discriminate against Jewish students when they by law reduced the % of Jewish students in their professional schools by 90% or whatever because Jews still got at least their "representation" in the population.
Oh, in our previous back and forth, Simpson waxed elegant (but falsely) about how of course he and admissions committees know that "Asian" isn't a real thing and some subgroups are barely represented in medical schools, but here he is again generalizing about "Asians."

[Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick]

The Revolt of the Parents, ESAs, and Religious Liberty https://t.co/TvD2EO3145

[Jay P. Greene @jaypgreene]

The Revolt of the Parents, ESAs, and Religious Liberty https://t.co/vqmPZZjSsC

[Jay P. Greene @jaypgreene]

Now watching https://t.co/z1gmdZLxHi

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

"We need a diverse physician workforce (to) address health disparities and improve the health of patients...It will be interesting to see...whether this will turn into a case that will pressure test that line of argument."

Go ahead and pressure test it. The evidence is clear.