Legal Commentary

?This is a statistically impossible lack of diversity?

By Todd Zywicki

says Jonathan Haidt, referring to the membership at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology?s recent conference:

?Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation,? said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist. ?But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among us by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate explanations.?

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).