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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination,soc.culture.african.american,misc.education
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.161136.2260@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:11:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.022147.18352@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- |> >| Syron and Munnell [the report presenters] stressed that the new
- |> >| study found no evidence that banks discriminate against minority
- |> >| mortgage applicants with "perfect" financial and employment
- |> >| records.
- |>
- |> >And exactly *how* is this "cooking" the data?
- |>
- |> A person with twenty late loan payments is supposedly unfairly denied
- |> a mortage which is given to a person with only one late loan payment.
- |> I would suspect that poorer people have more trouble making loan
- |> payments than wealthier people so again we have poorer people
- |> getting fewer loans than wealthier people being presented as racism.
-
- Read the article again Terry. People with twently late payments were not
- compared with people with one late payment at all. Amongst completelly equal
- groups of whites and blacks, the whites were granted the loans with
- considerably greater frequency. Income was considered, so only blacks and
- whites of equal income were compared. Late payments were considered so only
- blacks and whites with approximatelly equal credit records were compared.
- Despite the consideration of every area that the banks felt was important,
- it turned out that there was a disparity.
-
- Why can't you read?
-
- |> >I'll say it again. You are asserted again and again that the govt has
- |> >"cooked" data. I have shown you a recent study showing lending bias
- |> >with uncooked numbers (despite your attempt to microwave them) and
- |> >you, once again, are unable to demonstrate your claim.
- |>
- |> Were people with equivalent credit defects compared? No. So this data
-
- YES! You are wrong Terry. Only people with equivalent credit records were
- compared.
-
- Jason W. Solinsky
-