[QUOTE=Dead Badger]
“In and of itself” is just a red herring; Bricker is not saying that the person’s blackness would be the cause of their trustworthiness or otherwise - merely that it is a factor which could be examined, and which, due to dependencies on other less observable factors might give a result which is different to the same figure for whites.
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Precisely correct.
If anyone can find a single post in which I suggest that the CAUSE of the trustworthiness or otherwise is race, please trot it out. You can’t, because I never said such a thing, and I never would.
IF all other things were equal, such that the ONLY observable factor differentiating the two were race - which means that we eliminated all hidden codependent variables as causes - THEN, and ONLY THEN, could we say that there is some probative value to it, slight though it might be.
“All other things being equal.”