This article was thoughtful and indicative of some hard work in proving its various hypotheses. It will take a long time (maybe a life time) to correct the presuppositions associated with race, class, and success in the NBA, and by extension so many other things. Those assumptions have now been made less justifiable, though probably no less convenient. In spite of likely remaining steadfast, work like this is a start.
One minor criticism of this presentation relates to a common issue with presenting this kind of data. Any time a relative change is presented (“doubled”, or “increased by 200%”, for example), it doesn’t give us the truest perspective on absolute change. Is it from one million to two million, one thousand to two thousand, one to two?
It is critical to understand those distinctions and their extended impacts on the ideas the data is meant to support. This is especially true in the discussion of changes in a population over several decades. Still, none of this detracts from the article’s overall intent, and the fine job that it does.
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