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Statistics blur minority distinctiveness.

J Mandel
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In their study of the success of drug treatment, Sirotnik and Roffe blurred and probably minimized racial and ethnic distinctions. Their problem was trying to compare Whites, Blacks, and Chicanos with a statistic requiring two-art or scalar variables. Of non-Blacks (compared to Blacks), 29% were Chicanos, and of non-Browns (compared to Chicanos), 32% were Blacks. Nonetheless, of nine variables significantly associated with "staying in treatment," five were blackness, brownness, or synonymous with them. A format with only percentages would enable analysis to see substantive results clearly and in more detail.

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J Mandel. 1980. Statistics blur minority distinctiveness.. https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088009040102

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