How bad is America’s nepotism problem? Can data science help us gauge its depth? It can — and what the data shows is that something has gone haywire.[...]
There are plenty of countries that are worse. Over the past 50 years, being the son of a leader of North Korea increased your probability of being a leader of North Korea by a factor of infinity. An infinite advantage to having a powerful father has been common in human history.
Ooh we can find out how bad it is without data science:
Stephens-Davidowitz was born on September 15, 1982, in Englewood, New Jersey[1] into a Jewish family,[8] son of Esther Davidowitz and Mitchell Stephens.[9]
Mitchell Stevens the NYU professor of Journalism? Yes .
fucking lol. Even Harvard PhD's can't actually distinguish what the game is at this point.
Also I found this howler:
Ooh we can find out how bad it is without data science:
Mitchell Stevens the NYU professor of Journalism? Yes .
:no-oil: