Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
XKCD Marriage
Lots of interesting implications here, but they'll have to wait till later.
Wow--was approval of interracial marriage only 4% in 1958? I had no idea. I looked it up at the Gallup site and it seems to be so. But it's just hard for me to get my head around this.
I also learned from the Gallup report that "black-white marriages . . . still represent less than 1% of all married couples." This sounded low to me, but then I thought about it: if 13% of Americans are black, and 7% of blacks marry white people, then this comes to 1% of all married couples. 7% is low, but it's not as low as 1%.
Wow--was approval of interracial marriage only 4% in 1958? I had no idea. I looked it up at the Gallup site and it seems to be so. But it's just hard for me to get my head around this.
ReplyDeleteI also learned from the Gallup report that "black-white marriages . . . still represent less than 1% of all married couples." This sounded low to me, but then I thought about it: if 13% of Americans are black, and 7% of blacks marry white people, then this comes to 1% of all married couples. 7% is low, but it's not as low as 1%.