heres a dumb person version of the Findings meditate on it for a moment before we continuepic.twitter.com/xH2bmj9qnH
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heres a dumb person version of the Findings meditate on it for a moment before we continuepic.twitter.com/xH2bmj9qnH
"black babies were three times more likely to die if overseen by a white doctor"
really
REALLY
fucking really
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suppose for a moment that this were actually true what do physical reality do you imagine might cause this outcome? what specific actions can you imagine all white doctors taking that no black doctors take that would *triple* infant mortality independent of everything else?
note that this is not actually what they found black infant mortality rate is triple the white rate, the effect they see drops that to (afaict) ~double the white rate
Were you able to see how they determined the pediatrician's ethnicity?
"Physician race is not coded by the data and is captured from publicly searchable pictures of the physician." non-white, non-black doctors were dropped from the analysis
That seems suspicious. Thanks for looking that up!
it does but tbf it does not seem they had another way to do it and they do seem to have taken steps to do it accuratelypic.twitter.com/5qwatPMx8z
lol if this is pure measurement error the "true" coefficients should be /greater/ ironically this possibility of measurement error decreases my confidence in the studys results
I get how measurement error would underestimate coefficients but why would it have different effect on white/black?
well I mean it would bias downward estimates of p(death | black, everything else) - p(death | everything else) and the other thing
yea but wouldn’t it bias down p(death|black baby&black doctor) and p(death|black baby&white doctor) more or less equally?
Yeah but latter doesn't get a coefficient in their setup
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