Why are Black Kids More Likely to Die After Surgery Than White Kids?
Race is a good proxy for racism
4 min readJul 22, 2020
In my day job, I’m a clinical researcher and do a fair amount of statistical modeling. When I got started maybe 10 years ago, there were three variables that you had to put into any model you made. Age, sex, and race. You had to adjust for those three things. It was pretty standard. There’s an…