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...have the highest respect and regard for the work of Fryer and Torelli. It is enormously creative and revealing,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Through the lens of their work we have a much better understanding of these behaviors and the functions they serve...
Fryer and Torelli found that for white teenagers better grades coincided with greater popularity, while black students who excelled in school were substantially less popular than black peers with lower grades...
...black student with a 4.0 has, on average, 1.5 fewer same-race friends than a white student with a 4.0,” Fryer and Torelli write in their paper. “A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average...
Fryer and Torelli used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which surveyed more than 90,000 junior-high and high-school students from 175 schools in 80 communities around the country. Students taking the survey were asked to define their own ethnicity, Fryer said. Rather than allow students to define their own social status, the authors created a “spectral popularity index” to measure, for each student, the number of same-race friends within his or her school. They then weighted each student’s popularity by the popularity of each friend...
...Torelli was not available for comment...