{"id":70014,"date":"2012-05-20T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16768"},"modified":"2012-05-20T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T18:36:48","slug":"education-encourages-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/20\/education-encourages-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Education encourages integration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is sometimes fashionable to assert that higher socioeconomic status whites are the sort who will impose integration on lower socioeconomic status whites, all the while sequestering themselves away. I assumed this was a rough reflection of reality. But after looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss10\">General Social Survey<\/a> I am not sure that this chestnut of cynical wisdom has a basis in fact. Below are the proportions of non-Hispanic whites who have had a black friend or acquaintance over for dinner recently by educational attainment: <\/p>\n<p>35% &#8211; Less than high school<br \/>\n36% &#8211; High school<br \/>\n47% &#8211; Junior College<br \/>\n45% &#8211; Bachelor<br \/>\n59% &#8211; Graduate<\/p>\n<p>I thought this might have been a fluke, so I played around with the GSS&#8217;s multiple regression feature, using a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logistic_regression\">logistic model<\/a>. <b>To my surprise socioeconomic status was positively associated with having a black person over for dinner, and age negatively associated.<\/b> These two variables in fact tended to exhibit equal magnitude values in opposition, and always remained statistically significant. Just to clear, I created a variable Non-South vs. South below (being Southern increases likelihood of having had a black person over for dinner). All the individuals surveyed are non-Hispanic whites for the year 2000 and &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/LsV63srE1FY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is sometimes fashionable to assert that higher socioeconomic status whites are the sort who will impose integration on lower socioeconomic status whites, all the while sequestering themselves away. I assumed this was a rough reflection of reality. B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,55,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-demographics","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70338,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70014\/revisions\/70338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}