http://austinist.com/2007/08/17/strike_three_yo.php All comments for Strike Three, You're Out - And You're Welcome, Buddy en-us 2009 Adam S Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:41:20 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss aschragin@gmail.com aschragin@gmail.com 60 http://austinist.com/2007/08/17/strike_three_yo.php#comment-1176199 http://austinist.com/2007/08/17/strike_three_yo.php#comment-1176199 Comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:29:00 -0600 <p>Ha! I didn't even read the results before I posted. These researchers apparently never learned about margin of error, either. Wankers. </p> http://austinist.com/2007/08/17/strike_three_yo.php#comment-1176111 http://austinist.com/2007/08/17/strike_three_yo.php#comment-1176111 Comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:31:47 -0600 <p>Sheesh, what a huge waste of time. Besides, what exactly did the study find? Nothing, really... "White pitchers were granted a strike on 32.06 percent of the called pitches that white umpires viewed, as opposed to 31.47 percent for Hispanic pitchers and 30.61 percent for African American pitchers." http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/08/14/0814umpires.html 32.06% vs. 31.47% vs. 30.61%. Wow. What a huge, huge waste of time and dollars. </p> http://austinist.com/2007/08/17/strike_three_yo.php#comment-1175997 http://austinist.com/2007/08/17/strike_three_yo.php#comment-1175997 Comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:33:27 -0600 <p>Isn't there some pesky research rule about causation and correlation? Wish I could remember what it was. </p>