Table 6. The numbers you pointed out: White LDC 3rd Decile: 16.67% White non-ALDC 10th Decile: 15.27% The "much smaller gap" that I chose to focus on

Table 6. The numbers you pointed out: White LDC 3rd Decile: 16.67% White non-ALDC 10th Decile: 15.27% The "much smaller gap" that I chose to focus on: African American non-ALDC 4th Decile: 12.76% Asian American non-ALDC 10th Decile: 12.69% 3rd vs. 10th decile in one case is worth an academic paper with 3 authors collaborating from 3 different universities. Plus their associations with NBER and IZA. 4th vs 10th decile in the other case is something I was socially conditioned to see and is not worth focusing on at all. I think that if the study's authors had completely messed up a spreadsheet and replaced the numbers for the White LDC/White non-ALDC columns with the numbers from the African American non-ALDC/Asian American non-ALDC columns, you would suddenly find those numbers to be troubling.