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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
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- >I read about this particular study in the Boston Globe. Why don't you
- >try calling and asking about it? I'm sure they'll help you. I also
- >recall reading about it in the New York Times.
- >|the same as a $50,000 income.
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- >Can you document this or are you making it up?
-
- The "study" examined over 5.3 million mortgage applications and did not
- find one where an applicant was denied a mortgage because of their
- race. The "study" did find that a poor applicant was more often denied
- a mortgage than a wealthy applicant and that more of the Blak applicants
- in the "study" were poor than wealthy. The "study" reported that
- poor Blak and Caucasian applicants being denied mortages and
- wealthy Blak and Caucasian applicants being granted mortages demonstrated
- a racial bias by the mortgage lenders because more of the people who
- applied to them for mortgages who were Blak were poor than wealthy.
- Now the "study" claimed to factor out the income factor by only
- comparing the rejection rates for people with the same income. This
- "same" income was determined by grouping applicants about the
- median family income and those with less income and those with more
- income. So three income ranges were used, with everyone within each
- range being declared by the "study" as having the same income. So
- in the first group, applicants with annual incomes of $8,000 and $2,000
- had the "same" income and in the third group, applicants with annual
- incomes of $500,000 and $50,00 had the "same" income. The same flaw
- exists with the second group but not to these illustrated extremes.
-
- I read about this particular study in the Boston Globe. Why don't you
- try calling and asking about it? I'm sure they'll help you. I also
- recall reading about it in the New York Times.
-
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