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Studies that don’t take into account socio-economics are, in fact, racist. When you control for income and wealth, particularly intergeneraltional, racial diff

• BigBuzzKill 9y ago
  Accept that isn’t true. Racial differences rarely disappear even when you take those factors into account. There is evidence that economic inequality has little to no effect whatsoever (1, 2). There is also evidence that inequality is predictive for blacks but no whites (3). There is also data that does support your latter conclusion, but my point is that this issue isn’t as clear cut as you’re framing it as. (1) https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/70/4/1035/2232609?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/70/4/1035/22326... (2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6742630 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6742630 (3) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1999.tb00493.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1999....
  • mempko 9y ago
    Until you can account for multi century generational subjugation its going to be hard to say anything interesting.
• emmelaich 9y ago
  There's the what and the why. I think gp comment was suggesting that the what is often mixed up with the why. We shouldn't be afraid of getting statistics, but you're indeed correct that you must consider other factors when it comes to interpretation.