The Quantitative Perspective: Recent Episodes
Kevin D. Oden, Ph.D.
The podcast where we look at topics from around the world through a quantitative lens, dissecting the statistics, mathematics, and physics behind the headlines to bring a deeper and possibly alternative narrative to light.
In this episode we look at Global Warming through the lens of 3 numbers: 1.5, 41 and 1 billion:
In today’s episode we talk about racism in America. And we look at it from 3 different, but related, quantitative perspectives:
1. The legacy negative economic impacts of racism that persists to today for African- Americans
2. The economic benefit disproportionately brought to white America from the beginning of slavery on the continent in 1619 to today…. and finally we ask the question:
3. What could be the impact of reparations and do they work?