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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]This is their conclusion:

[quote]The conversations on DC Urban Moms illustrate what other research has also shown: When privileged parents choose, they tend to choose segregation[/quote]

This is an extremely unfair characterization that completely misses the nuanced and complex reality. It is extremely disappointing to see such drivel presented as serious research.
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Whether it’s the case on DCUM or not, this is a fundamental finding of several studies. And seems consistent with what I’ve see in DC.

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I don't think anyone besides Mathematica has looked at DC lottery data for this. These are the full paragraphs about what they said on it. It would be really misleading to describe this as privileged parents choosing segregation.

"For those applying to enter elementary school, White choosers tended to prefer schools with greater percentages of students who were from their same race/ethnic group. Also, for White choosers, the preference was strongest for schools where their children would be in a small majority (up to 60%), with a slight decline in this preference among the few schools with a higher proportion of White students, as evidenced by the curvature of the relationship between own-group percentage and utility shown in the top panel of Figure 1. For Hispanic choosers, the relationship was more nearly linear, although these coefficients were not statistically significant (individually as coefficients on linear and quadratic terms or jointly). Meanwhile, African American choosers essentially showed indifference for own-group racial composition of schools.

The picture looked different for those applying to middle school entry grades (see Figure 1, middle panel), where all but the Hispanic group of applicants had a pronounced own-group preference and a slight preference for diversity, evidenced by curvature and a peak within the data at 50%. The bliss point, or optimal own-group percentage, was 26% for White applicants to middle school and 47% for African American applicants. In each figure, the curves are intentionally truncated, to avoid extrapolating beyond the range of observed own-group percentage for each group. The results for applicants to high school are shown in the bottom panel of Figure 1, which makes it clear that there was even less diversity of schools in terms of racial composition."[/quote]

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