Opinion

White by Default

For the justice system, the failure to identify Hispanics correctly is not a research fluke but a feature of the bureaucracy.
White by Default
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An analysis I conducted of more than 5 million criminal records found that nearly one in three Hispanics are being assigned the label “white” in official Department of Corrections databases.
Lewis Low
Lewis Low
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Lewis Low is an Australia-based data scientist. His work includes, but is not limited to, curating novel datasets for original research. His other work is published at uncorrelated.xyz.