Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(22)
Racial statistics remain essential to reveal how far we have progressed from our racialized past, and how far we still need to travel.
Yes, there may be negative consequences to gathering racial statistics, as there are to not gathering them.
And you can understand that, with our history of Nazism, Vichy France, the idea of starting to keep racial statistics again awakes very bad memories here".
The House approved a bill requiring police departments to collect racial statistics on people stopped for traffic violations to determine if racial profiling is taking place.
Trumpeting of a City Council bill that would make racial statistics of police arrests more available to the public is premature.
"We really didn't expect that number," Claudette Bennett, the chief of the racial statistics branch at the Census Bureau, said in an interview today.
Similar(38)
"It turns out that in 2013, the ratio of white to black was one," Menard said of the racial disparity statistics cited in Harris' bill.
While previous research has demonstrated inconsistencies in racial vital statistics, the processes creating these discrepancies are not well understood.
In "post-racial" America, statistics are in many ways worse than they were in the 50s, particularly as to the so-called war on crime and its targeting of black neighbourhoods.
A measurement problem has emerged, however, with statisticians and demographers saying that the lack of uniformity is undermining the purpose of collecting racial and ethnic statistics in the first place, which is largely to monitor disparities in fields like health and education, and to protect the population's civil rights.
After getting pulled over by Long Beach police one afternoon with three black students in my car, I did a lesson on radar guns, which led to a discussion of racial profiling and statistics.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com