A professor at your university has hired you as a research assistant to help with her project on the current state of residential segregation, particularly between white and black populations, in a nearby major city. As your first task, she asks you to interpret the results of statistical analysis of the index of dissimilarity in various neighborhoods in the city. The first neighborhood you are
writing about has a predominantly white population with a dissimilarity index of 41. How would you interpret this?
A) There is a 41 percent chance that this neighborhood will remain racially segregated over the course of the next 10 years.
B) To have a more even distribution of whites and blacks there, 41 percent of white or black residents would need to move.
C) A total of 41 whites would have to move out of this neighborhood to have a more even distribution of whites and blacks there.
D) A total of 41 blacks would have move into this neighborhood to have a more even distribution of whites and blacks there.
B) To have a more even distribution of whites and blacks there, 41 percent of white or black residents would need to move.
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