As data statisticians, what kind of metrics/hypotheses would you want to test (assuming the data is perfectly available in an ideal world) to prove the existence of systemic racism? Keep it simple

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There are a ton of papers on this in the police force. Some of them find evidence of bias, some of them don’t. Pretty consistently shows that the truth is far more nuanced than the headlines

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I’ll dump a few good ones down below

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2330443X.2019.1704330

Number of cops tried / charged for overuse of power based on race of the victim

Narrow the context. Systemic racism in the world? In policing? In work environments?

Job/salary progression and tenure within a company for new job entrants.

ANOVA of hiring rates across races, using population as a control.
Already been done quite a few times and I would also do it for gender.

Edit: oh and dust off the same analysis for university placements

I believe OP said keep it simple....just following the rules haha

Also. I gave a Statistical technique. Yours sounds a little flaky as it is. How would you achieve what you mentioned?

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