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Examples – a thing that illustrates or provides a general rule that is characteristic of similar things
Example: According to the National Academy of Sciences, blacks are more likely than whites to receive a longer sentence for the same conviction.
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Comparisons – the presenting of one thing as similar or alike another
Example: Martha Minow makes the following comparison that was quoted in the Yale Law Journal’s article “Discrimination by Comparison,” “. . . if an employer has two employees who are similar but for X characteristic, and the employer treats Employee X worse than Employee Not-X, we are generally comfortable inferring that X is the basis, or cause, for the different treatment” (744). |
Statistics – the practice of collecting and analyzing data in large quantities usually for the purpose of providing a representation of the sample
Example: According to the University of Kansas, a black man in Kansas City, 25 or younger has a 28% chance of being stopped by police, while a similar while man only has a 12% chance. |
Quotations – a group of words from text or speech repeated by someone other than the original author
Example: “The failure to see color only benefits white America. A world without color is a world without racial debt.”
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