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STATISTICS 101 (was: Iroquois and the Constitution)
Mr. E (jackechs@EROLS.COM)
Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:10:26 -0500
Now that we have the stats, let's take a closer look shall we?
At 04:24 PM 02/08/96 EST, Bosley_J wrote:
>Here are the numbers from the Race/Ethnicity Supplement to the CPS that I've
>mentioned before on this list. For those who identified themselves as
>"American Indian, Aleut, or Eskimo" on a prior "race" question, the
>preferences for terms broke down as follows:
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>American Indian--49.76%
>Alaskan Native--3.51%
>Native American--37.35% 44.52% DO NOT want to be referred to as American
Indian
>Some other term--3.66%
>No preference--5.72%
With the normal margin of error with polls, this looks more like a 50/50
proposition ... there is no large majority of Native Americans saying they
want to be referred to as American Indians. Since when does one poll
outweigh years of Native peoples striving to rid themselves of the
euro-centrist title Indian? I may be wrong, but as the only Native American
voice on the list so far ... maybe my opinion should have a bit more weight
than a poll when speaking for my culture.
>Of course this is based on a total of only about .75-1.00% of the total
>sample of 60,000, so the numeric base is not large for these percentages...
>John Bosley
respectfully submitted,
Anthony Dauer
"As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be
true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that she [he] bears
false witness against herself [himself]. What makes it so
plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that
integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices
except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true,
confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the
hypocrite is really rotten to the core." Hannah Arendt
(1906-1975) On Revolution [1963], introduction.
"We have met the enemy, and he is us." Walt Kelly (1913-1973), Pogo
Copyright 1996 Anthony Dean Dauer. All rights reserved.
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