Just How Nepotistic Are We?

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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Stephens-Davidowitz

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 Stephens (born August 16, 1949) is an American professor of journalism and mass communications at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

  • CrimsonSage [any]
    ·
    3 years ago

    The stupidity and rube like credulousness of Liberal American Academia never ceases to amaze me.