Evil_Economist:
Note in the third post above, me explaining the concept to you using numbers. Notice how those are basically the same numbers **Damuri **used to try to claim that I was wrong. Interesting, isn’t it, that if **Damuri **is correct, you must be wrong? That’s why I was so surprised that you took his side. (actually, as per your usual, I could tell you just didn’t have the intellectual horsepower to think through the consequences of your position).
The argument in this thread is me repeating the argument in verbal form (I.e., to quote myself from that post and in this thread: “So your claim is that regular black schoolchildren receive less funding than regular white schoolchildren, and special education black schoolchildren receive less funding than special education white schoolchildren, but that there are enough special education black schoolchildren to make overall spend higher for black schoolchildren, even though they’re being discriminated against on a like-to-like basis”). Then **Damuri **misunderstood what I was saying (and also didn’t have context because he was jumping into an argument that was continuing from a prior thread), giving basically exactly the same numerical example that I did (while claiming that it proved that I was wrong), and you hoping so badly that I was wrong about something that you took **Damuri’s **side, even though **Damuri **being right means you must be wrong.
Just for fun, here’s my numerical example. And next to it **Damuri’s **identical numerical example “proving” me “wrong”.
First, my post:
Let me try with simple numbers:
Group A has 2 mainstream students, who each receive $1.50 of funding (the minimum necessary for the students to learn). They also have 1 special education student, who receives $3.50 in funding (the minimum amount of funding necessary for the student to learn)
Group B has 1 mainstream student, who receives $1 of funding, and two special education students, who each receive $3 of funding.
Now, Group B receives more total money ($7 vs. $6.50), but all of their students are receiving insufficient funding. The mainstream student is receiving only $1, compared to the $1.50 needed to provide a minimum education, and the special education students are receiving $3, less than the $3.50 needed to provide a minimum education.
And here’s Damuri’s post “proving me wrong” with the exact same numbers. I’ve left in the shit he wrote about me not understanding averages because it’s so funny in retrospect:
Damuri_Ajashi:
white mainstream kids cost $100 White special ed kids cost $200
10 white kids 8 mainstream and 2 special ed. Total cost $1200 (800+400) or $120/kid
10 black kids 5 mainstream and 5 special ed. Total cost $1350 (450+900) or $135/kid
This is not hard math. It only requires the ability to turn words into math problems. Something that kids learn to do in about 5th grade.
Like I said, you are really bad at this. I suspect you are really a millennial barista that ironically calls himself an economist.
And of course you thought **Damuri **found an error, so you rushed in to support him, even though he was providing an identical numerical example as the one I used to prove you wrong. So you were supporting the guy who was also showing you wrong, because you are fundamentally stupid.
Stick to posting recaps of podcasts, genius.