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3 UC Irvine L. Rev. 187 (2013)
Critical Race Empiricism: A New Means to Measure Civil Procedure

handle is hein.journals/ucirvlre3 and id is 193 raw text is: Critical Race Empiricism: A New Means to Measure Civil Procedure Victor D. Quintanilla* Introduction .....................................................................................................................188 I. Social Psychological T heory ......................................................................................196 II. An Updated Analysis of Iqbal's Effect on Race Discrimination Claims..........201 A . M eth od ...........................................................................................................202 B . R esults.............................................................................................................20 5 Study 1: Has Iqbal Increased the Dismissal Rate for Black Plaintiffs' Claims of Race Discrimination in the Workplace?.....205 Study 2: Did White and Black Judges Decide Motions to Dismiss Differently Under Conley, and Do They Decide Motions to Dismiss Differently Under IqbaP................................207 C . D iscu ssion ......................................................................................................210 III. Critical Race E m piricism .........................................................................................211 C o n clu sion ........................................................................................................................2 15 One of the first things one learns as a social pychologist is that everyone is capable of bias. We simply are not, and cannot be, all knowing and completely objective. Our understandings and views of the world are partial, and reflect the circumstances of our particular lives. This is where a discpline like science comes in.... [I]t extends what we can see and understand, while constraining bias. -Claude M. Steele' * Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law. I am grateful to Jerry Kang, Kevin Brown, Jeannine Bell, Deborah Widiss, Tim Lovelace, and Will Rhee for providing helpful comments on this Article. 1. CLAUDE M. STEELE, WHISTLING VIVALDI AND OTHER CLUES TO How STEREOTYPES AFFECT US 13-14 (2010). 187

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