Question: ( 5 ) In Robert K . Merton's famous article The Self - Fulfilling Prophecy ( 1 9 4 8 ) the author describes dramatic

(5) In Robert K. Merton's famous article "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948) the author describes dramatic feedback tendencies underlying the dynamics of prejudice.

when the gentleman from Mississippi (a state which spends five times as much on the average white pupil as on the average Negro pupil) proclaims the essential inferiority of the Negro by pointing to the per capita ratio of physicians among Negroes as less than one-fourth that of whites, we are impressed more by his scrambled logic than by his profound prejudices.

Invent a feedback loop diagram that captures the thinking in this excerpt. What kind of loop(s) do you expect to find?

 

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