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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:59:24 GMT
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- >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.
-
- Any hints as to where this study's results were published? Given
- the recent study of over 5.3 million mortgage applications did
- not yield any cases of racial bias, why the funding of another study?
- Maybe to come up the the "right" results this time? Anyway, could
- "less likely" be quantified? Maybe the confidence interval could
- be given (surely the study producers know what a confidence interval
- is)?
-
- >This was the first study of its kind to use all these 39 attributes.
-
- And how were they used?
-
- >Prior studies simply used income and value of a home (they tended to
- >study mortgages).
-
- "Simply", good description given that a $500,000 income was considered
- the same as a $50,000 income.
-
- >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.
-
- What else would you call this "liberal" use of the term "same income"?
-
- >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.
-
- I must wonder whether you think 500,000 is the same as 50,000 or
- whether you think it is the same when it serves the cause.
-
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