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Author: Gorman, Linda
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Gorman, Linda |
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Disputing Discrimination, Data Don't Back Up Accusations of Economic Bias Rocky Mountain News, March 13, 1994, Editorial; Ed. F; Pg. 79A Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Denver Publishing Company Keyword(s): Economics of Discrimination; Racial Differences; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Gordon uses NLSY79 data to support her critique of studies that claim to "'single-out' wage differences based solely on race.'' She argues against the validity of such research by drawing an analogy to high school test scores. Her argument is as follows: "In 1980, the highest and lowest scores for white high school graduates in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were about the same as those for black high school graduates. On average, however, the scores of black graduates were much lower - 75% of the black high school graduates scored below the 25th percentile of the white high school graduates. This means that - again on average - black high school graduates are not as well prepared academically as white ones. But statistical studies that only use schooling to equalize individual differences do not recognize this. As a result, when black students have poorer jobs or lower wages, statistical studies may attribute the difference to discrimination when it is really due to differing levels of skill." |
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Gorman, Linda. "Disputing Discrimination, Data Don't Back Up Accusations of Economic Bias." Rocky Mountain News, March 13, 1994, Editorial; Ed. F; Pg. 79A. |
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Gorman, Linda Thomas, George W. |
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General Intellectual Achievement, Enlistment Intentions, and Racial Representativeness in the U.S. Military Armed Forces and Society 19,4 (Summer 1993): 611-624. Also: http://afs.sagepub.com/content/19/4/611.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society Keyword(s): I.Q.; Intelligence; Military Enlistment; Poverty; Racial Studies; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. racial composition of those who want to join the military reflects that of the general population. Using a sample of young men from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this article examines the effects of four different specifications of the independent variables race, poverty status, high school enrollment, age, and test score on an individual's enlistment intentions. The coefficient estimates were maximum likelihood estimates of a logistic regression model with an ordinal dependent variable. The results suggest that enlistment intentions depend heavily on intellectual achievement and poverty as well as race, and that models ignoring this may attribute false importance to the effects of race on intentions to enlist. |
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Gorman, Linda and George W. Thomas. "General Intellectual Achievement, Enlistment Intentions, and Racial Representativeness in the U.S. Military." Armed Forces and Society 19,4 (Summer 1993): 611-624.
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