Talk:Disparate impact

Unintentional Discrimination
"Adverse Impact is also known as unintentional discrimination..." What!? Again... the article is about Disparate Impact. On those lines, this is just another iteration of the intro to the whole article, yet it purports to be a unique section of the article?
 * I went ahead and fixed this.AustinBrister (talk) 02:02, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Worthless Links
In the legal world, a link to a dictionary is absolutely worthless. The verbiage describing a disparate impact and what a facially neutral employment practice are, are 100% junk. Cite a case, or a law review article, or an ALR, or a CorpusJuris, or an AmJur, or SOMETHING. JUNK! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.72.190.19 (talk) 02:36, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. What an embarrassment. It's too bad the deletionists don't make themselves useful and actually do something useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AustinBrister (talk • contribs) 07:14, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

4/5ths rule
The 4/5's rule needs to be expressed more clearly. PhilipDSullivan 18:19, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I gave it a try. Better? Martijn Hoekstra 14:37, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. PhilipDSullivan 21:26, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Links to nothing
I am going to remove the links that take the reader to deleted or never created pages. PhilipDSullivan 18:19, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Disparate Impact
"Disparate impact" redirects to this page, but disparate impact is a much more general concept, which applies to more than just employment.Heqwm (talk) 22:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll check it out, I think I might have made the redirect. You could restore it yourself, but I believe somewhere in the text of Disparate impact was that it was the same thing as Adverse impact, which was why I made it. I think. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 22:56, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disparate_impact&diff=171507680&oldid=171505584
 * the first line reads: Disparate Impact is synonymous with Adverse Impact which is why I made the redirect. If you can fix it up, just undo it. Do make sure everything is verifiable though per WP:V. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 22:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Disparate Impact is not synonymous with Adverse Impact because Disparate Impact is a theory of liability, while Adverse Impact is an observed statistical phenomenon. We should review the following article summary http://www.hr-guide.com/data/G702.htm and perhaps the original U.S. supreme court brief "built-in headwinds" etc.  The definition of Disparate Impact is: "Even where an employer is not motivated by discriminatory intent, Title VII prohibits an the employer from using a facially neutral employment practice that has an unjustified adverse impact on members of a protected class."  "Disparate Impact" as relating to employment law is more specific than "Adverse Impact," because "disparate impact" only relates to situations were facially neutral and unintentional selection criteria resulted in an adverse impact. Verkerkelegal (talk) 14:54, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I couldn't agree more with this. The article is about Disparate Impact, not Adverse Impact.  Disparate Impact the legal theory that exists when there is an "adverse impact" to a Title VII protected class.


 * I just fixed this problem. It seems that plenty of time has passed and no one has raised an issue here. Also, I have placed a couple of cites to court cases to back it up.AustinBrister (talk) 02:03, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Fair Housing Act of 1968
This section should be CAREFULLY edited by someone familiar with a recent United States Supreme Court ruling on the disparate impact implications of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.54.209.228 (talk) 02:26, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

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