Job Segregation
The materials below relate to flawed efforts to prove that persons are discriminatorily excluded from certain jobs on the basis of their high representation in other jobs.
"Women Employees' Case against Publix, Built on Wrong Data, Doesn't Compute," Miami Daily Business Review (Aug. 2, 1996)
"Multimillion-Dollar Settlements May Cause Employers to Avoid Hiring Women and Minorities for Less Desirable Jobs to Improve the Statistical Picture," The National Law Journal (Mar. 27, 1995)
http://jpscanlan.com/images/multimillion_cor_42405.pdf
"Unlucky Stores: Are They All Guilty of Discrimination?” San Francisco Daily Journal (Jan. 29, 1993)
http://jpscanlan.com/images/Unlucky_Stores.pdf
"Indiscriminate Reading of Statistics Can 'Prove' Bias Where None Exists," Manhattan Lawyer (Apr. 24, 1989)
"Are Bias Statistics Nonsense?" Legal Times (Apr. 17, 1989)
Are Bias Statistics Nonsense? (PDF Format)
"Illusions of Job Segregation," The Public Interest (Fall, 1988)
http://www.jpscanlan.com/images/Illusions_cor_42404.pdf
“Direct Regression and Reverse Regression: Contrasting Ways of Looking at the Wrong Information,” 1992 (unpublished)
http://www.jpscanlan.com/images/Reverse_Regression.PDF
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