On 11/19/2016 09:48 AM, jim bell wrote:
>This
month in serious ridesharing allegations
>Nathaniel Mott
>October was defined by a study published by
the National Bureau of Economic Research which
revealed that many Uber and Lyft drivers >are
sexist. The landmark study found that drivers in
Seattle made African American passengers wait
longer to be picked up,
A few
months ago, I read a part of an article referring
to another article saying that Americans
discriminated against "African-American names".
The second article might have been http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-sounding-names-study_us_561697a5e4b0dbb8000d687f ,
although I just Googled that result.
But
the first article went on to point out that in
reality, Americans discriminated against STRANGE
names, not specifically against African-American
names. But because blacks have begun to adopt
strange names, they adopt the discrimination they
would not otherwise face.
This is
why the term, "Lying with statistics" exists.
Jim Bell
>I don't think that point matter one bit.
I don't think most people are in any way interested in what you have to say.
>If my name was doodleflapper it would be a strange name. But a
different kind of strange than Ishmael Osama Baraka Stokely
Carmichael.
But my (and others) point is that nutty lefty organizations like Huffington Post like to lie about things, make it appear there is "racism" when there really isn't. They often do this by citing seemingly-authoritative statistics, ones that don't actually support what they claim.
Jim Bell