>Yes, and that retraction was itself political in nature: >https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-cited-their-study-so-they-disavowed-it-11594250254 https://www.wsj.co

>Yes, and that retraction was itself political in nature: >https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-cited-their-study-so-they-disavowed-it-11594250254 https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-cited-their-study-so-they-dis... Indeed. The chronology is important: 1. Cesario et al [1] received some criticism [2], but they stood by their findings [3] 2. A student union / twitter mob was not happy with the findings of the study [4] 3. The resulting political pressure led to the ousting of Stephen Hsu from MSU, who had approved the funding for the study [5] 4. Only then retracted Cesario et al their study, while still standing by their findings [6] ______ There is a similar study done by economist Roland Fryer [7], while at Harvard. Summarized, the two studies find the following: Cesario et al: Per interaction with the police, civilians have roughly the same risk of being killed by police gunfire, regardless of their ethnicity. Fryer: - Per interaction with the police, civilians have roughly the same risk of being the target of police gunfire, regardless of their ethnicity. - Per interaction with the police, a black civilian is 1.5x more at risk to receive slight use of force by the police than a white civilian. This disparity gets smaller at higher levels of force. (See [7], Figure 1) - Per interaction with the police, a perfectly compliant black civilian is 1.2x more at risk to receive slight use of force by the police than a perfectly compliant white civilian. This disparity gets smaller at higher levels of force. (See [7], Figure 5) [1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1903856116 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1903856116 [2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1919418117 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1919418117 [3] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1920184117 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1920184117 [4] https://twitter.com/gradempunion/status/1270829004157849600 https://twitter.com/gradempunion/status/1270829004157849600 [5] https://lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2020/06/19/msu-vp-research-resigns-after-controversial-comments-research/3226785001/ https://lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2020/06/19/msu-vp... [6] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2004734117 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2004734117 [7] https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/empirical_analysis_tables_figures.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/...