Athletic Participation, Race, and Graduation
Six-year graduation data for 214,555 students in 2004
A data frame with 214555 observations on the following 3 variables.
StudentAthlete or NonAthlete
RaceBlack or White
Grad1=graduated within 6 years, otherwise 0
Six-year graduation data from 2004 for male non-athletes and for male athletes, where "Athlete"" means football or basketball player. These data show Simpson's Paradox.
Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross, collected the summary statistics.
Data are derived from the summary tables in:
Matheson, V., "Research Note: Athletic Graduation Rates and Simpson's Paradox," Economics of Education Review, Vol. 26:4 (August 2007), 516-520.
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