The racial makeup of Jazz fans

[The Midnight]

Glad to be part of the 5.7% ... hahaha... well, except I'm not in the US.. LOL

 

[The Midnight]

That's weird, I would think that 99% of rockets fans would have been Asian on account of Yao Ming and that there are1 billion people in China. And on account that James Harden and Dwight Howard play the ugliest form of basketball that has ever existed.

I think you missed the "In the US" disclaimer....

 

[Siro]

what should it be then ?

It's an Arabic name. But obviously lots of black people have Arabic names.

 

[ghsartin]

The results are quite interesting but one can surely wonder how the poll was conducted. My guess would be that the poll was done by randomly interviewing people outside the arenas on (many) game nights, since I find it hard to imagine this sort of polling being done online.

If that was the case, if the polling was indeed done the way I presume, it is interesting that 15.6% people attending Jazz games are black while the black population in the SLC area just comprises 2,7% of the total population. Since I live in Brazil, I never attended a Jazz game in SLC. Do you guys think that 1 out of 6 persons in attendance is black? Does this ratio makes sense for you?

 

[addictionary]

If they surveyed on the sample of ticket holders, this analysis is not legit.

Hit the suburbs and meet the real fans of the game that actually play it pretty awesome too.

And don't forget, we are all originally from Africa.

 

[Jonah]

Interesting topic, but the information is not culled from a survey of people outside arenas or ticket holders. It says right on the posted graphic that the sources are Nielsen (television viewers) and Google trends. Furthermore, Nate Silver, author of the article, says upfront that it's just a crude estimate. His methodology, in his own words:

I used Nielsen estimates of the racial composition of the population in each of the United States’ 210 media markets;

I used the frequency of Google searches for each NBA team in each media market as a proxy for its per-capita popularity;

I multiplied each team’s Google search frequency in each media market by the population by race there, then summed the totals to produce an overall estimate of the racial distribution of its fans;

I recalibrated the estimates to ensure that the whole matched the sum of the parts. In other words, I added or subtracted from the fans assigned from each racial group to each team such that the sum total matched my estimate of the overall distribution of NBA fandom throughout the country (e.g. 46 percent white, 31 percent black, and so forth). The estimates were weighted by the overall popularity of NBA teams, according to their number of Google searches.

 

[Cappy_Smurf]

The ladies often mistake me for being part black, so there's that.

 

[thebrazilianzz]

My mother's side of the family came to Brazil from Portugal and Lebanon.

My father's side of the family are decendants of Native americans(since I'm in Brazil, would they be Native South Americans?), Africans and also Portugal.

I really don't know what I would answer on this poll.

 

[♪alt13]

Interesting topic, but the information is not culled from a survey of people outside arenas or ticket holders. It says right on the posted graphic that the sources are Nielsen (television viewers) and Google trends. Furthermore, Nate Silver, author of the article, says upfront that it's just a crude estimate. His methodology, in his own words:

I used Nielsen estimates of the racial composition of the population in each of the United States’ 210 media markets;

I used the frequency of Google searches for each NBA team in each media market as a proxy for its per-capita popularity;

I multiplied each team’s Google search frequency in each media market by the population by race there, then summed the totals to produce an overall estimate of the racial distribution of its fans;

I recalibrated the estimates to ensure that the whole matched the sum of the parts. In other words, I added or subtracted from the fans assigned from each racial group to each team such that the sum total matched my estimate of the overall distribution of NBA fandom throughout the country (e.g. 46 percent white, 31 percent black, and so forth). The estimates were weighted by the overall popularity of NBA teams, according to their number of Google searches.

So he made it up then.

 

[UB]

I came into this thread expecting some pretty lame Black stereotypes, and I was not disappointed. Shaking my damn head, y'all.

 

[Gameface]

I came into this thread expecting some pretty lame Black stereotypes, and I was not disappointed. Shaking my damn head, y'all.

I haven't read the whole thread. Did we cover penis size already?

 

[Stoked]

Lol smh