Comments on: Unlevel Playing Fields: From Baseball Diamonds to Emergency Rooms http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:18:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thoughts on Michael Vick, Tim Donaghy, and Baseball Umpires’ Implicit Attitudes - Gorkemgozleme Sports | World's Sport News http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/#comment-24867 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:24:08 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/#comment-24867 [...] on The Situationist, we examine a new study indicating how baseball umpires may alter their strike zones based on the race or ethnicity of the [...]

]]> By: Thoughts on NBA Officials, MLB Umpires, and Implicit Attitudes & Joba Chamberlain’s Pitching and Suspension - Gorkemgozleme Sports | World's Sport News http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/#comment-24866 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:57:58 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/#comment-24866 [...] Implicit attitudes are likely to be the subject of many other sports-related studies, and as Francesa Di Meglio of Business Week reports this week, there is a new study examining baseball umpires and implicit attitudes. In her piece “Racism Behind the Plate?” Di Meglio discusses the research of University of Texas economics professor Daniel Hamermesh and his co-authors. They find that due to implicit attitudes, Major League Baseball umpires make calls that favor pitchers who share their ethnicity and race. The authors examined every pitch from three Major League Baseball seasons between 2004 and 2006 to determine if racial discrimination played any part in umpire calls, and discovered that when the pitcher shares the home plate umpire’s race or ethnicity, more strikes are called. According to the authors, given that there are more white umpires (87% are white) and white pitchers (71% are white), minority pitchers are more likely to show less favorable results and ultimately be undervalued. Their paper can be downloaded here and a related Situationist post can be read here. [...]

]]> By: I’m Objective, You’re Biased « The Situationist http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/#comment-12202 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:28:20 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/#comment-12202 [...] on your perspective, one part or another of the media is obviously biased. In the sports world, referees and umpires often seem less than fully neutral. And on the bench, even robed judges sometimes appear to have [...]

]]> By: John J Perricone http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/#comment-6062 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:02:48 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/unlevel-playing-fields-from-baseball-diamonds-to-emergency-rooms/#comment-6062 Guys, Hammermesh should be ashamed of himself. 1 pitch called with racial bias could change a game outcome? I can hardly count the ways in which that statement is absurd. Of course, for the person behind the study to conclude that a 1% difference is impactful should surprise no one, but for so many articles to be written about it, and for so many writers to leave him alone from challenge is tremendously frustrating and disappointing.

Please take the time to think about what 1 pitch out of 75 might really do, and I believe you will see that his study was a waste of time.

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