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> So you want me to provide statistical evidence of a broader problem in a country where it is illegal to collect any statistics around race? Yes? Since appar
by NikolaeVarius 5y ago
> So you want me to provide statistical evidence of a broader problem in a country where it is illegal to collect any statistics around race?
Yes? Since apparently you feel perfectly comfortable with a link trying to prove this very fact, but lets see the claims of the article you linked.
> called 69 temporary employment agencies in the Paris area posing as employees from a construction firm.
Already an extremely small sample
> The French government said it would summon the companies in question.
Audited
> It said 55 percent of the branch offices it contacted refused requests to discriminate.
Okay
> Although limited in scope to a small number of agencies, the findings highlight what anti-racism campaigners say is a wider problem of discrimination in some French workplaces.
A claim of wider effects from a noted small sample
- whimsicalism 5y agovariance = p*q/n, gives an estimate of ~0.3% which puts >95% probability of the the true proportion of racist french temp agencies >25%. It's more than large enough of a sample size to put a tight confidence interval around the proportion. Again, as I've said - you would never get anything remotely like this in the urban core of the US.