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"On average, black students earned a 1.9 GPA while their white counterparts held down an average of 3.45" The ratio between black and white GPAs = .55 "Ogbu w
by hooande 17y ago
"On average, black students earned a 1.9 GPA while their white counterparts held down an average of 3.45"
The ratio between black and white GPAs = .55
"Ogbu worked from the 1990 census data, which showed that 32.6 percent of the black households and 58 percent of the white households in Shaker had incomes of $50,000 a year or more"
The ratio between number of blacks/white making above $50k/yr = .56
- fburnaby 17y ago3+3=6, 30/5=6. Sorry for the snark, but what's your proposed interpretation? That it's all socioeconomic?
- jongraehl 17y agoYes, the parent post evokes some ridiculous reverence for ".55 is very close to .56". At least compare ratio of average income per race to ratio of GPA, not some bizarre ratio of "% > threshold". I could probably find an income threshold so that the ratios are exactly equal.
- jongraehl 17y agoWhoever downvoted this is wrong. There's always a threshold so "fraction less than threshold" is x for any 0<=x<=1.