Okay, I am almost back to posting on a semi-daily basis. Tomorrow I plan on posting a comment that I have tentatively titled “Speeding Up Time for Bill Simmons.” But today is not tomorrow, so I thought I would quickly update the WOW Journal with one more comment on the Price-Wolfers study.
In the Daily Pennsylvanian – which they describe as the independent student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania – was a story by Emily Babay on the Price-Wolfers study. One might expect this story, entitled “Study indicates racial bias in NBA refereeing”, to simply re-hash the story that appeared in The New York Times. Babay, though, offered a bit more. Nestled inside Babay’s article are the following two quotes from Justin Wolfers:
Wolfers, who has read the NBA report, said the league misinterpreted its own study. “Their data shows they actually agree with me,” he said. “Their statistics show there’s evidence of own-race bias.”
Wolfers went on to add…
“None of these guys called me a bad basketball player,” he said. “The called me a bad economist. Quite frankly, I think I’m a terrible basketball player. But I don’t know that they’re in a position to judge my economics.”
I am just going to toss those two quotes out there for comment. I should be back tomorrow with something new.
UPDATE: ESPN’s Lester Munson has written a story that also re-iterated the point Wolfers has made: The NBA study also found evidence of racial bias.
– DJ
Wages of Wins Journal 
NothingToLose
February 15, 2010
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