On 11/19/2016 09:48 AM, jim bell wrote: > *From:*Razer <[email protected]> > > >> >This month in serious ridesharing allegations >> >Nathaniel Mott >> >October was defined by a study published by the National Bureau of >> Economic Research which revealed that many Uber and Lyft drivers >are >> sexist. The landmark study found that drivers in Seattle made African >> American passengers wait longer to be picked up, >> A few months ago, I read a part of an article referring to another >> article saying that Americans discriminated against "African-American >> names". The second article might have been >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-sounding-names-study_us_561697a5e4b0dbb8000d687f >> , >> although I just Googled that result. >> >> But the first article went on to point out that in reality, >> Americans discriminated against STRANGE names, not specifically >> against African-American names. But because blacks have begun to >> adopt strange names, they adopt the discrimination they would not >> otherwise face. >> This is why the term, "Lying with statistics" exists. >> Jim Bell >> >
I don't think that point matter one bit. If my name was doodleflapper it would be a strange name. But a different kind of strange than Ishmael Osama Baraka Stokely Carmichael. Rr
