Notes
1. It is a commentary of some sort that the former school now caters to the landed gentry
outside Indianapolis, and the former is now a fairly typical urban high school (with all the
problems that this implies).
2. However, the nice woman who called about renewal tried to make me feel that this was a
special group: ʻOur renewals for Sunday afternoons are running a bit ahead of last year.
Won't you join your fellow subscribers and help us meet our goal for Masterpiece I early?ʻ ʻ
Nice try. I did renew, but not because I have any positive feelings about this group. Hon-
est.
3. And I suspect that most white Americans also think that Hispanics and blacks have more
homogeneous attitudes than they, in fact, have. When I was a department chair, the de-
partment coordinator was a black woman, and we sometimes talked about race issues of
one kind or another. I once asked her what black people thought about some issue of the
day, and without missing a beat (and with only a slight twinkle in her eye), she replied,
ʻWhatever makes you think I would know what black people) think about anything?ʻ Got-
cha ! Obviously, I had assumed that black people thought alike about the issue.
4. To be perfectly, accurate the variance is directly proportional to the squared deviation of
every score from every other score in a distribution-perhaps the most direct measure of
intragroup similarity that one could imagine.
5. The exact formula is P, = 1 - E p2¡ where p is the proportion in each category i.

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