The (Black) Harvard Professor who Found No Bias in Police Shootings Describes the Reception He Got from Academic Colleagues

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[–]Tigerbitecrazy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are multiple meanings for the use of tenure when it comes to academics but it was used properly here. "Having job security that ensures academic freedom to conduct controversial or unpopular research" The reasons for him being lambasted by his formers is a direct result of some of his unpopular research, imo

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The reasons for him being lambasted by his formers is a direct result of some of his unpopular research, imo

I hope not.

I enjoyed the take of Ross, C.T., Winterhalder, B. & McElreath, R. Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police. Palgrave Commun 4, 61 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0110-z when resolving the discrepancy between the 2017 analysis of Dr. Roland Fryer's and a 2016 analysis with the apparently opposite findings (Ross, Cody T. "Identifying the Drivers of the Exceptionally High Rates of Lethal and Racially Biased Violence by Police in the United States Requires Geographically Resolved Data and Analysis." Sociological Forum. Vol. 31. No. 1. 2016.)

Fryer found that the factor of more than three that black people were likely to be shot by police wasn't due to bias, because they were more than three times more likely to have an interaction with police. Fine economics (Dr. Fryer's field), but I can see why a sociologist might question the approach, or at least how the findings are presented by the press.