April 15, 2009

How Researchers Classify Biracial Subjects Skews Study Results, Authors Say

By Peter Schmidt

San Diego

For higher-education researchers, the choice of how to classify people who identify themselves as biracial is hardly as simple as black and white. In fact, a paper being presented here on Thursday at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association says that each of three commonly used approaches to classifying biracial or multiracial people has benefits and drawbacks, and the choice of which one to use can significantly influence a study’s results.

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