Unlike many other parts of America, the South contains large black minorities, ranging from 18% of the electorate in North Carolina to over 30% in Mississippi.
Since Schreppler was hired in 2016, she has also been the postdoctoral coordinator with the Society for Women in the Physical Sciences (SWIPS), which offers mentoring, career panels and other professional advice to women and underrepresented minorities, ranging from from undergraduates all the way to young faculty members in physics, chemistry, astronomy and earth and planetary sciences.
That is an encouraging straw in the wind for hard-pressed minorities, ranging from isolated Roman-Catholic communities who fear for their safety to the Greek Orthodox adherents who yearn to reopen their famous Halki seminary, on an island near Istanbul.
Analyzing data on "top 50" chemistry departments, they found considerable variation in the percentage of chemistry Ph.D.s that institutions awarded to women and underrepresented minorities, ranging from 49%and20%0%, respectively, at top-scoring Louisiana State University (LSU) to 20% for women at Harvard University and 0% for minorities at Columbia University, among other institutions.
A kappa between self-report and claims data for minorities ranged from 0.19 (for colorectal cancer testing) to 0.58 (for mammography).
Estimates of the Muslim minority range from 4 percent to 8 percent of Myanmar's roughly 55 million people while the rest are mostly Christian or Hindu.
Putting this all together, Facebook has all of the pieces to create a real life version of the world of Minority Report, ranging from identifying citizens who harbor feelings of disagreement with their government to estimating those who might commit a crime in the future to the facial recognition needed to deploy a fleet of drones to locate or target them.
In this paper I find large "quality gaps" in public pre-K between poor/minority students and non-poor/non-minority students, ranging from 0.3 to 0.7 SD on a range of classroom observational measures.
A minority of patients, ranging from 18 to 36% in recent studies, are prescribed four or more psychotropic medications (Bauer et al. 2013a; Weinstock et al. 2014; Golden et al. 2017; Goldberg et al. 2009).
Namely, 10 studies excluded people with no caregiver and a minority of patients (ranging from 12% to 43%) lived alone.
