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Dissent in Affimative Action Case Cites Debunked Citation
2023-07-03
[DailyCaller] Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson parroted a refuted claim in a Thursday dissent that black newborns are more likely to live when treated by black doctors.

"For high risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live, and not die," Jackson wrote in her dissent for a case that determined the fate of affirmative action policies in college admission practices."

The study cited, however, only says that black babies have a 99.96% chance of survival when treated by black doctors, and a 99.91% chance of survival when treated by white doctors. The statistic has been used by proponents of affirmative action policies to argue that increasing representation of black medical students in schools will lead to better health outcomes and fewer patient deaths among these communities.

Moreover, white doctors are more likely to treat babies in dire medical situations that land them in the NICU than are black doctors, which the study does not control for.
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