Differentiation produces the evidence that retroactively justifies itself
Evidence
Self-fulfilling prophecies contribute to the persistence of bias by providing spurious confirmation of the validity of differentiation. Greater surveillance of adolescent blacks by the police results in their being arrested at a greater rate than other portions of the population. This tends to confirm that black young adults are the primary delinquency problem. … Teachers who expect achievement from their pupils interact with them in such a way as to bring out their full achievement potential. Those predicted to do poorly, however subtly, are more likely to fail. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 834
Categorization
- XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s thesis: administrative practice generates confirming data faster than culture can change. — connects to: Client labels depend more on setting and discretion than objective traits — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 529; Perceptual differentiation retroactively presents objects as having always been in the prior undifferentiated ground.; Representation makes the new appear predetermined and therefore old (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Perceptual differentiation retroactively presents objects as having always been in the prior undifferentiated ground.
#exemplifies(0.85) - The For-itself retroactively constitutes the past from which it appears born
#corroborates(0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 479 - Representation makes the new appear predetermined and therefore old
#exemplifies(0.78) - Differentiation meant to manage complexity can itself cause information failures
#complicates(0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1996 - Coincidence can masquerade as causal proof when no baseline is considered
#qualifies(0.72)