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  4. From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
  5. Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.203441.28442@athena.mit.edu>
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  12. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:34:41 GMT
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  15. In article <1993Jan26.020031.2501@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
  16. |> >|> Were people with equivalent credit defects compared? No. So this data
  17. |> 
  18. |> >YES! You are wrong Terry. Only people with equivalent credit records were
  19. |> >compared.
  20. |> 
  21. |> As reported, people with perfect credit histories were compared with 
  22. |> people with perfect credit histories and people with other than perfect
  23. |> credit histories were compared with people with other than perfect
  24. |> credit histories--people with one late payment were compared with
  25. |> people with twenty late payments.
  26.  
  27. Where did you read that? Show me the part of the article where it says that.
  28.  
  29. There were not two groups. There were many hundreds of groups. The newspapers
  30. graphs were simplified because it is impractical to report all of the data,
  31. but the article and the study show clearly that what you wrote above directly
  32. contradicts the facts.
  33.  
  34. Jason W. Solinsky
  35.