What Charles Murray thinks about mental models

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Political scientist, born in 1943, whose Losing Ground (1984) argued that US welfare programs from the 1960s on made poverty worse by rewarding behaviour that kept people poor.

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1. 7 Feb 2018

   Our readingReversing a cause of a social problem does not necessarily solve it years later

   Their wordsAnd, as years went on after Losing Ground, I became a lot more aware of the way in which something can be a cause of a problem at one point in time, but reversing it isn’t necessarily going to be the solution to the problem ten years later.

   ↗Conversations with Bill Kristol: Charles Murray III (taped February 7, 2018; transcript)conversationswithbillkristol.org 1st of 7 in this piece