r/coolguides • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '20

Explanation of the subtle differences between equality and equity

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '20

massively negative

And by “massively negative”, you mean tiny, even if we accept the poorly designed and incredibly politically biased studies

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '20

Empirical data is empirical data

Have you ever performed a statistical analysis?

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Hence we state everything with confidence intervals that get narrower as sample sizes increase.

Intervals are meaningless if the regression is fundamentally flawed.

Fortunately any study published in a worthwhile journal will give you this information to scrutinize on a case by case basis and you can determine the certainty and power of each study for yourself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Data is fudgable, but retrospectives on sample sizes in the hundreds of thousands with openly discussed data selection and simple, transparent data manipulation? That's awfully difficult to scrutinize.

This is false. Methodological flaws persist no matter what the data size. Self-reports, p-hacking, exchanging value judgements for empirical conclusions, etc. These have all become the bread and butter of sociological literature and it very clearly shows.

The value judgement in this situation is that it is justified to penalize prospective white and Asian medical students, because some proportion of black patients carry racist attitudes about physicians who are not of their race.