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Fla. Sociology professor tweets Texans deserved Harvey for supporting Trump

2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
Google "most racist US cities" and Boston is 5 of the first 10 results. Not exactly just a Republican sentiment.
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Behold, the great Arbiter of Things That Most Racist:

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And Adam "Don't Call Me Pacman" Jones, and pretty much everyone else who has ever spent any time there.
 
The point isn't that Boston isn't racist it's that Boston isn't the only place with systemic racism. Which was the entire point of my initial response to you.

However I do agree that it's not likely that Boston is "more racist" (however this is quantified) than, say, Alabama or Randleman on a relative basis
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
The point isn't that Boston isn't racist it's that Boston isn't the only place with systemic racism. Which was the entire point of my initial response to you.

However I do agree that it's not likely that Boston is "more racist" (however this is quantified) than, say, Alabama or Randleman on a relative basis
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Yet the "study" cited only occurred in Boston and Chicago. So while there may or may not be systemic racism in other locations, that study is irrelevant to illustrate it.
 
Serious question if there were a study that examined nationally the impact and role of systemic racism would you believe it?
 
So it is possible to fire a Florida sociology professor?

Query, how will we be able to tell when he stops working?
 
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Serious question if there were a study that examined nationally the impact and role of systemic racism would you believe it?
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Serious question: Was that really a serious question?

There are thousands of studies conducted each year by all kinds of people about all kinds of subjects.....and many times for all kinds of ulterior motives. The results of such studies don't necessarily mean or prove anything. Do you believe everything about every study that has been conducted?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/sep/13/scientific-research-fraud-bad-practice

Increasing competition for shrinking government budgets for research and the disproportionately large rewards for publishing in the best journals have exacerbated the temptation to fudge results or ignore inconvenient data.

Massaged results can send other researchers down the wrong track, wasting time and money trying to replicate them. Worse, in medicine, it can delay the development of life-saving treatments or prolong the use of therapies that are ineffective or dangerous. Malpractice comes to light rarely, perhaps because scientific fraud is often easy to perpetrate but hard to uncover.

The field of psychology has come under particular scrutiny because many results in the scientific literature defy replication by other researchers. Critics say it is too easy to publish psychology papers which rely on sample sizes that are too small, for example, or to publish only those results that support a favoured hypothesis. Outright fraud is almost certainly just a small part of that problem, but high-profile examples have exposed a greyer area of bad or lazy scientific practice that many had preferred to brush under the carpet.
 
bkf is your gut feeling that when applying for various jobs across this beautiful country that Colin Berkeley and Jerome Washington would be treated equally?
 
Remember feelings over and facts so this feels like the right list for most racist to least racist.

Top 10 racist states

1. Mississippi
2. Alabama
3. South Carolina
4. North Carolina
5. Georgia
6. Tennessee
7. Arkansas
8. Louisiana
9. Texas
10. Arizona

Least racist
1. Hawaii
2. New York
3. Vermont
4. New Hampshire
5. Rhode Island
6. Connecticut
7. New Jersey
8. Pennsylvania
9. Maine
10. Ohio
 
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