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The US Black-White cognitive ability gap in 1850, 1870 and 1900 censuses
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The US Black-White cognitive ability gap in…

Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Aug 31, 2017

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The US Black-White cognitive ability gap in 1850, 1870 and 1900 censuses
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Using the crude measures of literacy and numeracy discussed in a previous post, it is possible to quantify the cognitive ability gap for US Black-White in the 1800s.

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