tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post8850428947164246084..comments2024-03-28T12:16:12.797-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Ethnicity and mental disabilityRon Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-58023796974329034272011-01-12T10:42:07.845-08:002011-01-12T10:42:07.845-08:00The poverty rates among Vietnamese-Americans are a...The poverty rates among Vietnamese-Americans are are 15% ten years ago, halving from 30+% in the 1980's.<br /><br />Much of it is actually from recent immigrants widely occurring for the past few years. <br /><br />Its likely that you're idea only applies to a general few, and in no way is peculiar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-85171983571438371612011-01-10T05:21:32.341-08:002011-01-10T05:21:32.341-08:00Click on the link "2000 Census 1% Sample.&quo...Click on the link "2000 Census 1% Sample."Ron Guhnamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-32559170893674342882011-01-09T21:30:01.449-08:002011-01-09T21:30:01.449-08:00What's the data source for this? Any chance yo...What's the data source for this? Any chance you could post the data along with your summary?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-55959623336370883662011-01-09T09:18:17.512-08:002011-01-09T09:18:17.512-08:00There is no way to know about cultural bias.
I...<i>There is no way to know about cultural bias.</i><br /><br />I'll take a crack at that.<br /><br />1.) School systems <a href="http://statsquatch.blogspot.com/2010/12/accidental-evidence-of-hh-regression-to.html" rel="nofollow">classify some of their pupils as "retarded"</a>.<br /><br />2.) In conservative and moderate districts, generally it's over 2-to-1 black, though somewhat less in liberal districts. (<a href="http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2228/mdretardedrace.png" rel="nofollow">Retardation reporting by race and county in Maryland</a>). [Note: PG, Prince George's, is the blackest county in Maryland].<br /><br />3.) By eyeballing the OP figures, it looks like the white-American average is just under 3.0.<br /><br />4.) 4.8/2.9 = 1.655 (Black/White self-reporting [OP] = Ratio). 1.655 is a lower rate than one would expect if we assume school-district classifications are reasonably objective. [Ron can provide the true white-rate, but I expect the results will hold].<br /><br />5.) Conclusion: Blacks in the Census 1% Sample underreported mental-disability, or whites overreported, or the MD Student-retardation figures are wrong, or "mental-dsiability" and retardation are not comparable. (What <i>is</i> mental-disability then?)<br /><br />6.) Assumption based on first explanation in #5: If blacks underreported, perhaps other groups did.<br /><br />I find it hard to believe that Filipinos in the USA have the same share of mentally-disabled as Koreans.Hailhttp://hailtoyou.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-36478444631441210652011-01-09T08:10:41.845-08:002011-01-09T08:10:41.845-08:00Percentages above 3.8 are significantly above the ...Percentages above 3.8 are significantly above the average, and those below 3.7 are signficantly below the average. There is no way to know about cultural bias.Ron Guhnamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-28485414425974894922011-01-09T05:01:42.667-08:002011-01-09T05:01:42.667-08:00Are these data significant? They are based on self...Are these data significant? They are based on self-reporting, with all the known (and unknown) errors that entails. The apparent correlation with nationality might have some sort of cultural bias regarding components of self-respect and identity.sykes.1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10954672321945289871noreply@blogger.com