and other predictive scholarship based on anything other than theology—work best when they are grounded in contextualized data.
one thing confuses me about this sentence which is the part about theology and how its excluded from the predictive scholarships that work best when grounded in context. I don't fully understand why it was excluded.
I still vividly recall the economics dissertation on African American migration patterns whose causal explanations rested on the assumption that since racial discrimination is always present, it could be dismissed as a “constant.”
This sentence surprised me but not too much because I was not aware that, that the migration patterns of African Americans were used as a basis to classify that since racial discrimination is always present its dismissed as something's that is always constant when isn't exactly the case due to historical context clues etc. And it hadn't surprised me much due to being a person of color and understanding that throughout history things like this can get easily misinformed, skewed or nit given much thought into.
Everything has a history” means that history is always relevant, perhaps even always essential
I agree with this because its a very true statement all around.Many don’t value the importance of studying history or even understanding the value it holds in our societies because every single thing, no matter how significant or insignificant it is, has a history of some kind, which makes it relevant because its still valued in our present and that makes it essential.