tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1688166712778183365.post3461014138007752266..comments2024-01-21T21:29:54.146-08:00Comments on If We Assume: Racial Perceptions - A First GlanceJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17932747144037742617noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1688166712778183365.post-5675519500339603672013-06-27T09:29:48.307-07:002013-06-27T09:29:48.307-07:00How do you define race? You seemed to take the de...How do you define race? You seemed to take the definitions as a given. <br /><br />Is someone from Saudi Arabia considered Asian? Or someone from Papua New Guinea? Are Mexicans white? Where did you get "Hawaiian" from as a race, and by that token, what happened to Native Americans?<br /><br />I'm curious what definitions were used for your source statistics, and whether you actually provided any in your survey questions. I've heard the clarifying term "non-Hispanic whites" since Latin Americans have a combination of New World and Old World roots. On your part, you seem to have excluded the concept of Hispanics entirely, though they are judged to be the most quickly growing "racial" minority in the US.<br /><br />Just my two cents. Race is a construct, so you have to define your terms before you can jump to the math.Jake Schneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01158597304942588912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1688166712778183365.post-59336941983746598082012-06-24T15:16:52.190-07:002012-06-24T15:16:52.190-07:00I live in Memphis, and the city itself is 70% blac...I live in Memphis, and the city itself is 70% black. However, white flight has created the scenario that during the day, about 60% of the people in the city are white. Maybe most major cities have the same situation, where the place where people sleep and work are far enough away from each other that demographics aren't entirely accurate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1688166712778183365.post-83343051213608821222012-06-24T14:33:31.479-07:002012-06-24T14:33:31.479-07:00I came upon a similar thought last night: some of ...I came upon a similar thought last night: some of the "noise" in the data, due to people's perceptions of their regional scale being larger than the ZIP code, can be hammered down by averaging the few surrounding ZIP's.<br /><br />One possible way would be to average the Census data surrounding each respondent within, say, a half mile.<br /><br />Curious idea about finding the national average. I'll poke around more in the next iteration!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17932747144037742617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1688166712778183365.post-20409222913359908882012-06-24T14:25:08.814-07:002012-06-24T14:25:08.814-07:00Very interesting. It looks to me like people cons...Very interesting. It looks to me like people consider local racial demographics on larger regional scales than their zip code areas, so that their perceptions tend to lean toward a safe guess near the the national average. If you were to fit lines to these downward trends in predicted - actual % vs. actual %, would these cross the actual prediction line near the national average percentages? That could be interesting to look at.<br /><br />Looking forward to more data!Keaton Bellnoreply@blogger.com