The problem is that if your metrics discriminate, any policies made as a result of the metric will discriminate too.

Does it matter what someone's race is when you measure non-marriage as a "Percent of Americans" as the title implies?

optimism

I think people would love to, but haven't been able to.  Race is a statistically significant predictor, even after controlling for things like income, education, etc, in many sociological studies.  It probably proxies for cultures and values that are difficult to observe through other means.

charts_and_numbers

Percent of Americans that never married, 1880-2023

k00b

I think people would love to, but haven't been able to.  Race is a statistically significant predictor, even after controlling for things like income, education, etc, in many sociological studies.  It probably proxies for cultures and values that are difficult to observe through other means.
 