I read it as socioeconomic status (?) On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:17:26 -0500, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is SES? > > Jerry Johnson > Web Developer > Dolan Media Company > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/28/05 11:19AM >>> > But proportionately that's not necessarily the case. Absolute numbers > are not applicable. You need to look at the proportions. The reason > you have more poor whites is that there are more whites period. But as > a percentage of their ethnic group there are fewer poor whites than > poor blacks. > > As I mentioned in our analysis of the NORC dataset the correlation > between race and SES was over .5. That means that when analyzing the > effects of poverty you cannot look at poverty alone, you have to > include race as a factor in your analysis. > > The NORC dataset I'm referring to is a huge study - it followed about > 30,000 children in several different cohorts throughout the school > system for their entire time in school. Ethnicity, SES, academic > achievement, and about 40 or 50 other variables were repeatedly > assessed throughout the study. With this size of a sample its a fairly > good estimate of what happens in the general population. > > >
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