Friday, September 26, 2014

Do statistical disparities mean injustice?

How many times have we heard laments such as "women are 50 percent of the population but only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs" and, as the Justice Department recently found, "blacks are 54 percent of the population in Newark, N.J., but 85 percent of pedestrian stops and 79 percent of arrests"? If one believes that people should be represented ... (more)

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