"Teach thy necessity to reason thus: There is no virtue like necessity" Richard II, Act I, Scene iii

I am mystified by number of commenters saying that you can't draw conclusions because of the small sample size. This is not a small sample size. The results are robust in part because the data set is so large: 83000 observations.

One of the interesting points of TFA is that it pinpoints where in NIH's two-tier process of review black researchers are eliminated. They are more likely to be eliminated in the first round of peer review than in the second "scoring" round. This is not consistent with them submitting, on average, less worthy projects. If that were the case, they should have the same or a higher attrition rate at the second level of review. Black researchers are also less likely to resubmit grants, which could be a simple lack of mentoring or communication from the NIH.

From TFA:

And they preface their statements with "I'm not a racist but..." or "Don't take this the wrong way but..." or the ever-popular "Some of my best friends are black, but..."

This is based on a data set with 83000 grant proposals from about 40000 researchers, every application made to the largest NIH program over a 5 year period. This is not a small sample and it is not a single point in time. If you flipped a coin 83000 times and got heads 49,800 times I'd say the coin is biased in favor of heads, oh, by about 60%.

The NIH paid for the study.

I certainly agree that the analysis does not say what the cause is, but the data set has 83000 grant applications and 40000 different researchers. That is not a "small sample size." It's every grant submitted the NIH's largest program over a 5 year period.

Yes, you will have a much chance of getting a job interview with a "white-sounding" name. Study cited towards bottom of article. http://www.economist.com/node/21526320

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Forget DataCenters.
How about 12V DC at home, so that I can get rid of the half dozen little tranformers plugged-in under my desk?

What are the real objections to 12V in the home?

The most sensible one I've heard is most digital devices need a fairly fixed voltage drop, which probably means that need to be in parallel. That pushs your current thru the entire system up, perhaps to dangerous levels.