Freakonomics: “The Plight of Mixed Race Children”

Now, if our last site survey is correct, our readers who identify as mixed race should be in the high hundreds to low thousands. So, I want to hear from y’all. Is Steve Levitt’s theory right, and you really are all a bunch of attractive, fight-happy, hard drinking, cancer stick sucking, television junkies awaiting your clinic results? Or is there something more at play here?

Oh wait, y’all don’t count. According to this NY Times commenter:

Its interesting to note that those that take exception to the data, are those posting on an economics blog on the New York Times site. Probably not the reading material of choice of the mixed race (or white, black, or asian for that matter) kid in Rikers.

— Posted by Gary

I guess mixed people have their own version of the Talented Tenth.

(Thanks to Jason for the heads up!)

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