[Zeppo]

In a study published in October by the RAND Journal of Economics, Ian Ayres and Christine Jolls of Yale Law School and Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard looked at how the race of the seller affected 394 auctions of baseball cards on eBay.

And the likelihood of the results of that "study" being actually true would be what?

Pretty close to zero?

[mrsmel]

It’s a two-fer-—more waste of taxpayer money, creating nonsensical “jobs” to conduct nonsensical “surveys”, with pre-determined results and data which is pre-formed to support the pre-determined result.

[tbw2]

Maybe the lesson is that if you want to sell the product, don’t show your hand.