Were you able to see how they determined the pediatrician's ethnicity?
-
-
Replying to @MaiqTL @eigenrobot
"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
1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @halvorz @eigenrobot
That seems suspicious. Thanks for looking that up!
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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
4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
I get how measurement error would underestimate coefficients but why would it have different effect on white/black?
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
well I mean it would bias downward estimates of p(death | black, everything else) - p(death | everything else) and the other thing
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
yea but wouldn’t it bias down p(death|black baby&black doctor) and p(death|black baby&white doctor) more or less equally?
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Yeah but latter doesn't get a coefficient in their setup
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
then maybe I’m misunderstanding how they did this why doesn’t their model cover all the possible pairings?pic.twitter.com/YarmnUreMl
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
It does cover them White/black infant and white/black doctor are both dummies defined on {0,1} They have coefficients on each dummy individually, plus the interaction White baby black doctor is case where black doctor = 1
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.