Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey Write: "[T]he Most Successful Racial

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Essay

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey write: "[T]he most successful racial "quota" program in U.S. history appears to be the one that sees to it that well-off white men dominate exclusively or very disproportionately most major U.S. institutions." Drawing on data from Chapter 7, support this assertion.

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Definitions:

Sum of the Squared Residuals

Is calculated by summing the squares of the differences between observed and predicted values in a regression analysis, highlighting model accuracy.

Normally Distributed

A type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable whose graph forms the shape of a bell curve, often associated with the standard deviations and mean in data analysis.

Residuals

Differences between observed values and the values predicted by a model, showing the extent of deviation from a fit line.

Test Statistic F

The ratio of two variances that follows an F-distribution, used in statistical methods like ANOVA to determine the significance of group differences.