Racist Refs? BYU professor thinks so...

[dantheman]

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700088899/BYU-study-NBA-refs-calls-influenced-by-race.html

Discuss.

 

[sirkickyass]

Old news. This paper was presented at the Sloan Sports conference last year.

https://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/jwolfers/Papers/NBARace.pdf

 

[Jean-Luc]

If Sloan thinks it's not worth commenting on then I ain't gonna comment about it.

... oh wait. Damn.

 

[Siro]

What if the player's race is ambiguous, like D-Will?

 

[NUMBERICA]

Vanilla and chocolate still makes chocolate.

 

[Siro]

Vanilla and chocolate still makes chocolate.

What about white chocolate?

 

[sirkickyass]

What about white chocolate?

He's only had five fouls called on him all year.

Take that as you will.

 

[sirkickyass]

What if the player's race is ambiguous, like D-Will?

From the paper:

"Our data on player race comes from a variety of sources, including Kahn and Shah (2005), Timmerman (2000), and our own coding from past issues of the Official NBA Register and images on nba.com. In each case, we simply noted whether a player or referee appeared black, or not. Hispanics, Asians, and other groups are not well represented among either NBA players or referees, and throughout the paper we refer to non-blacks somewhat imprecisely as “white”.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

I know for a fact that Polynesians foul more than any other race in pickup ball.

 

[TroutBum]

I know for a fact that Polynesians foul more than any other race in pickup ball.

Oh man, QFT.

 

[NCJazz]

Fes would definitely disagree with this assessment.

 

[enchilada_style]

I know for a fact that Polynesians foul more than any other race in pickup ball.

It's no longer basketball when they play.

 

[bigb]

I know for a fact that Polynesians foul more than any other race in pickup ball.

And harder.

 

[UB]

What about white chocolate?

It's literally not chocolate. Sad, I know, but it still counts as delicious.