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Originally Posted by Indy Coug
Insufficient data granularity. Not properly taking into account concentration of race by position.
Are most white players post players that tend to pick up more fouls than black guards and small forwards?
Do players that play in "garbage time" tend to pick up fouls at a higher rate? A majority of white players are bench players.
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Indy, I don't really care about this paper and maybe the data granularity charge is somewhat fair (although, I am inclined to think this works against the study finding something). However, I don't think your second charge is fair at all. The empirical design does take into account concentration of race by position. The specifications that include
player fixed effects specifically take this into account. I don't think mainstream stats guys use fixed effects that often (as opposed to economists), but it really is a good way to control for the problem you raise about "concentration of race by position".