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- From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
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- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:24:32 GMT
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- Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) says:
- |>Not true. A classic case is their study of mortage applications. Over 5.3
- |>millions mortgage application were examined and not one, not a single case
- |>was found in these over 5.3 million applications where an applicant was
- |>denied a mortage because their race. And is this how the government reported
- |>the results? No, they cooked the data to introduce a racial bais, one
- |>that poor Blaks receive fewer loans than wealthy Caucasians (with the
- |>terms "poor" and "wealthy" omitted, to save on printing costs no doubt).
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- This simply isn't true, I'm afraid. Just two months ago, the Boston
- branch of the Federal Reserve Bank completed a study of loan
- applications where they used all *39* official attributes that lending
- institutions use to evaluate potential lendees and found that with all
- things being equal, Blacks and Hispanics were less likely than their
- White counterparts to get a loan.
-
- This was the first study of its kind to use all these 39 attributes.
- Prior studies simply used income and value of a home (they tended to
- study mortgages).
-
- In short, you are completely wrong. In fact, your assertion that
- "they cooked the data to introduce a racial bais, one that poor Blaks
- receive fewer loans than wealthy Caucasians" is painfully false. Even
- the early studies controlled for wealth and assets. And since the
- reports I've seen and/or read about have always gone to great pains to
- show this, I am forced to wonder whether you are either completely
- insane, purposefully ignorant and/or intentionally lying.
-
-
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