Recycled "Racism"

These are what could be called "Aha!" statistics. If you start out with a preconception and find numbers that fit that preconception, you say, "Aha!" But when the numbers don't fit any preconception -- when no one believes that banks are discriminating against whites and in favor of Asian Americans -- then no "Aha!"

Thomas Sowell.

This article appeared in half a dozen online venues. Sowell addresses "Aha!" statistics in-depth in his book, The Vision of the Anointed. He addresses the 13 year old study mentioned in this article. When the author of the study was pressed with contradictory information and lack of evidence, she admitted there was no proof of discrimination and resorted to asserting that she "felt that discrimination was occurring."