Statistics without Substance: A Critique of Freedman et al. and Clark and Morrison.

Grofman, Bernard

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Publication Date: 1991

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Statistics without Substance: A Critique of Freedman et al. and Clark and Morrison.

Grofman, Bernard

Evaluation Review, v15 n6 p746-69 Dec 1991

D. Freedman and others and W. Clark and P. Morrison misunderstand case law in the voting rights area and have unrealistic standards of precision that, if adopted, would make it virtually impossible for minority plaintiffs to succeed. Ecological regression, when used with care, is a reliable tool. (SLD)

Descriptors: Census Figures, Court Litigation, Estimation (Mathematics), Ethnic Groups, Evaluation Methods, Hispanic Americans, Human Geography, Minority Groups, Political Attitudes, Racial Attitudes, Racial Discrimination, Regression (Statistics), Voting Rights

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: California

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