Affiliation:
1. North Carolina A & T State University
Abstract
The decennial census is one of the most venerable components of American democracy and a paragon of population enumeration for the whole world. However, as an integral part of the American political tradition, it has shared the very peculiar nature of the American polity. It then deliberately counted Blacks as fractional persons—the Three-Fifths Compromise—and now, it involuntarily undercounts the Black population disproportionately. This undercount, in addition to decreasing the fair shares of political representation and federal funds entitled to African Americans, has resulted in various biased statistics on them.
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Anthropology,Cultural Studies
Reference8 articles.
1. Clayden, A. D. & Croft, M. R. (1990). Statistical consultation—Who’s the expert? Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2, 65-76.
2. Behavioral Decision Theory: Processes of Judgement and Choice
3. Difficulties in Learning Basic Concepts in Probability and Statistics: Implications for Research
4. Greer, B. & Semrau, G. (1984). Investigating psychology students’ conceptual problems in relation to learning statistics. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 37, 123-125.
5. Nguyen, P. (1996). Census undercount and the undercount of the Black population. Western Journal of Black Studies, 20, 96-103.
Cited by
1 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献