This month in serious ridesharing allegations

[Razer]

On 11/19/2016 09:48 AM, jim bell wrote:
> *From:*Razer <rayzer at riseup.net>
>
>
>> >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.

If my name was doodleflapper it would be a strange name. But a different
kind of strange than Ishmael Osama Baraka Stokely Carmichael.

Rr

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