{"id":23202,"date":"2020-08-27T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=23202"},"modified":"2022-01-16T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T19:48:54","slug":"explore-the-dimensions-of-equity-and-inequity-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=23202","title":{"rendered":"explore the dimensions of equity and inequity in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How did I spend my summer vacation? Mainly, working with colleagues to build this new <a href=\"https:\/\/equityresearch.tufts.edu\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/equityresearch.tufts.edu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-5.36.48-PM-1024x406.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-5.36.48-PM-1024x406.png 1024w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-5.36.48-PM-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-5.36.48-PM-768x305.png 768w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-5.36.48-PM-1536x609.png 1536w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-5.36.48-PM-2048x813.png 2048w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-5.36.48-PM-624x248.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use it to explore how various categories of Americans&#8211;racial groups and genders, people from different walks of life, voters supporting Trump or Biden, and more&#8211;fare on a whole range of social outcomes, from having diabetes, to being confused for someone of the same race, to being laid off because of COVID. A <a href=\"https:\/\/equityresearch.tufts.edu\/#surve-data\">very simple interface<\/a> yields results like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/equityresearch.tufts.edu\/?ac1=a1hai_1&amp;ac2=a2liaaw_hwdi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Tufts-data-1-1024x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Tufts-data-1-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Tufts-data-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Tufts-data-1-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Tufts-data-1-624x338.jpg 624w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Tufts-data-1.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The site also presents &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/equityresearch.tufts.edu\/research-briefs\/\">research briefs<\/a>&#8221; based on the underlying survey data that go well beyond the queries that you can run yourself using on the homepage. So far, they are about COVID and policing; more are coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an effort to inject some additional facts into the public debate, to experiment with data-visualization, and to bring faculty together from across a research university to combine their disciplinary perspectives on one multifaceted issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22591\">debating equity<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20430\">defining equity and equality<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19401\">sorting out human welfare, equity and mobility<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21348\">college and mobility<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20644\">14 kinds of research we need for #reducinginequality<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I spend my summer vacation? Mainly, working with colleagues to build this new website. You can use it to explore how various categories of Americans&#8211;racial groups and genders, people from different walks of life, voters supporting Trump or Biden, and more&#8211;fare on a whole range of social outcomes, from having diabetes, to being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23208,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions\/23208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}