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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
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- >| Syron and Munnell [the report presenters] stressed that the new
- >| study found no evidence that banks discriminate against minority
- >| mortgage applicants with "perfect" financial and employment
- >| records.
-
- >And exactly *how* is this "cooking" the data?
-
- A person with twenty late loan payments is supposedly unfairly denied
- a mortage which is given to a person with only one late loan payment.
- I would suspect that poorer people have more trouble making loan
- payments than wealthier people so again we have poorer people
- getting fewer loans than wealthier people being presented as racism.
-
-
- >I'll say it again. You are asserted again and again that the govt has
- >"cooked" data. I have shown you a recent study showing lending bias
- >with uncooked numbers (despite your attempt to microwave them) and
- >you, once again, are unable to demonstrate your claim.
-
- Were people with equivalent credit defects compared? No. So this data
- is invalid for making a bias claim. What about then, the remaining
- data where apples were compared to apples? It was reported that there
- definately was no racial bias. Now, if the government wanted to find
- actual racial bias, they could simply pick up the phone and call, say,
- the Society of Black Engineers.
-
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