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Inequality "of outcome" is the best evidence one can have of inequality "of opportunity", and again, it was the primary evidence in the Brown v. Board of Education overturn of Plessy v. Ferguson.

The distinction didn't hold water in 1954, and I don't think it holds water in 2020. Consistent inequality on the basis of sex or race is the principle evidence that there is inequality "of opportunity."

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> Consistent inequality on the basis of sex or race is the principle evidence that there is inequality "of opportunity."

How so?

definitions: equality of opportunity = x equality of outcome = y

equation: y = f(x, [z1, z2, ...]) where z1, z2, ... are possibly other factors determining y

you seem to say that y = f(x)

You need to prove that z1, z2, ... don't exist and that y = f(x) has a causal relationship

Both can be proved or disproved through numbers. In case the numbers don't exist, one suspends judgement.

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