Sunday, April 30, 2017

Thursday, April 27, 2017

It's the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act—Race Still Matters | Boston Review

http://bostonreview.net/blog/claude-fischer-civil-rights-race




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Saturday, April 8, 2017

Henrietta Lacks’ estate to sue Hopkins Hospital – The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

What If Everything You Knew About Poverty Was Wrong? | Mother Jones

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/kathryn-edin-poverty-research-fatherhood


Jencks says that Edin's work also represented a "methodological innovation." Rather than obsessing about getting a perfect sample for her study, he says, "she figured out that it was really better to get interviews and observations of people who were willing to trust you and would tell you the truth than it was to get interviews of people who were a random sample of the population who'd lie to you. That came as something of a shock to social scientists. The question of whether people were telling the truth had sort of slipped away."

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What If Everything You Knew About Poverty Was Wrong? | Mother Jones

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/kathryn-edin-poverty-research-fatherhood




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Kathryn Edin reveals the lives of people who live on $2 a day | Hub

http://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2015/winter/kathryn-edin-living-on-2-dollars-a-day/


"We get as close to the source as we can. You can never be sure—someone can always be lying to you. But for every claim that was made in this study, there were multiple verifications. The best fact-checking we do is staying with people for a long time."

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Friday, April 7, 2017

New study sheds light on racial differences in trust of physicians | Emory University | Atlanta, GA

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/10/upress_sewell_doctor_trust/index.html




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Monday, April 3, 2017

White Students’ Unfair Advantage in Admissions - NYTimes.com

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/white-students-unfair-advantage-in-admissions.html?utm_source=EF+Empowering+ourselves+%26+where+YOU+come+in&utm_campaign=BOD+Result&utm_medium=email&_r=0&referer=




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