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Right Wing Blogs Led by Breitbart "News" Launch Virulent, Dishonest Attack on "Black Lives Matter" Activist

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iossarian8/21/2015 10:42:29 am PDT

re: #480 freetoken

My question then (assuming we continue to require this reporting of “race”) is this: how plastic are we going to allow the answers to be?

I’ll tell you what the answer increasingly is for people who actually do this (the collection and reporting of such data), since I’m one of them.

In my experience, you basically take what people tell you as the “truth” and assume people are well-intentioned in terms of their self-reporting. If you believe there’s been a genuine error then you might politely check, but (especially when the overall N is large) it’s often not even necessary to do that.

Happy to answer follow-up questions.