[celejrm313]

I'm paranoid, paranoid somebody's coming to get me. Man, the whole world is wrong isn't it.

Seriously, how many studies are there that show this?

[chaos_5]

thanks for the barf alert

[A message]

Hard to be called for a foul when your sitting on the bench.

[edcoil]

90% of NBA teams are anti white and don’t have white players.

[AbeKrieger]

Has anyone produced a complementary study showing the estimated number of “actual” fouls committed that were not called, and the corresponding race of the fouler and official?

Or would both sets of data invalidate the result desired, therefore it is not to be pursued, and if pursued, not to be disclosed?

[From One - Many]

The NBA strongly criticized the study, which was based on information from publicly available box scores, which show only the referees' names and contain no information about which official made a call.

Dear Mr. & Ms. Taxpayer, you paid for this.
Thank God, our money goes to worthwhile studies...../s

[Ben Mugged]

Hard to call fouls on white players when there are no white players......

[cmet]

I briefly looked at this report but i did not see anything about the validity of the fouls called. Do they mean that the white officials call fouls when one did not occur, OR does it mean that Black officials are more likely not to call a foul when it occurs.

Is this a study of one group following the rules of the game, while another group chooses to let the rules slide?

Or yet still, one group tends to commit more fouls.

Lots if variables to consider

[TheEditor]

Wolfers has published a number of papers on various sporting topics. While it would be best to have data detailing which refs called a given foul, I’d bet that Wolfers’ work will stand up to further scrutiny. And I guarantee that scrutiny will be forthcoming.

I have a side biz that is tangentially related to Wolfers’ published works.

[siunevada]

I saw this article and wondered if the researchers are prepared to study the numbers of fouls actually committed and categorize them according to race.

How about stars vs. journeymen? Everyone knows the stars get away with murder.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I qgara about basketball when Shakthugball and the jump step no longer were illegal but instead deemed things of beauty.

[madison10]

Of course they call more fouls on black players, there are MORE black players...

[showme_the_Glory]

Don’t hate da playa, hate the ref?

[MayflowerMadam]

Well.. duh!

[Retired Chemist]

Guess we’ll need all referees to be black and follow the trend for police chiefs in the USA.

[machogirl]

public education and public funds at it’s best (sarcasm)

[Niteranger68]

Sooo...the black players need to clean up their act huh??? But isn’t it also true that 100% of NBA players that attack white fans in the stands, are black?

[gathersnomoss]

Tell it to the liberal press. This dog don’t hunt.

[texasmountainman]

The so-called increase in fouls called against black players was between 2.5-4.5%.

That is a meaningless statistic since even if it was a very professionally done study (which I doubt) 2.5-4.5% would most likely fall into the margin of error.

In addition, a study like this doesn’t take into consideration the characteristics of each individual player. Things such as some players regardless of skin color are more agressive than others and therefore will be called for more fouls.

This is just more B.S. from the left. The next thing you know, Brian Ross of ABC will have a report claiming that these “racist” officials are all Republicans.

[ChessExpert]

White officials call more fouls on black players.

That appears to be logically equivalent to "Black officials call fewer fouls on black players."

So the title can be restated as:

Racial bias among refs? Study: Black officials call fewer fouls on black players

[takenoprisoner]

white guys play in the NBA?