Word: facebook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front page story about a study by two undergraduates on the racial compositions in the Houses, Hispanic students erupted over what they perceived to be the validation of a flawed study. The study did not account for Hispanic students in its calculations, classifying students by looking at their facebook pictures as white, black or Asian...
Veblen, who is white, said it was impractical to try to pick out Hispanics by facebook pictures...
...compiling their final project last spring for Statistics 100: "Introduction to Quantitative Methods," Nienke C. Grossman '99 and Mark F. Veblen '99 examined a sample of facebook pictures and assigned students to one of the three racial categories: "white, African-American or Asian/South Asian/Indian/Near Eastern...
Student leaders not only dispute the project's premise that it is possible to determine the race of an individual by looking at a facebook picture but also criticize the first-years' failure to include Hispanics and Native Americans as racial categories...
...When you look through a facebook and assign them to one race, you are classifying them in a way that may not be fair," said Fernandez, who is of Indian descent...