Talk:Opus Dei/Google examples of over-representation


 * Racial Inequity in Special Education - Executive Summary for Federal Policy Makers


 * Harvard University's The civil rights project

http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/specialed/IDEA_paper02.php


 * "(...)inappropriate practices in both general and special education classrooms have resulted in overrepresentation, misclassification, and hardship for minority students, particularly black children."

They use in the same meaning I use it. But maybe Harvard researchers are wrong too.


 * Statistical analysis of over-represented words in human promoter sequences


 * http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/32/3/949


 * In the Abstract the authors write:
 * "Several over-represented eight-letter words have known biological functions described in the eukaryotic transcription factor database TRANSFAC; however, many did not."

On social issues also:


 * Children of Color Over-Represented in Child Welfare System in King County


 * African American and Native American Youth Disproportionately Represented


 * http://www.casey.org/MediaCenter/PressReleasesAndAnnouncements/KingCountyDisproportionality.htm
 * "A county-wide coalition of child welfare and human services organizations today announced findings from its study indicating that children of color in King County are over-represented in the child welfare system and fare worse by all measures than their Caucasian counterparts.
 * "Although children of color are one-third of the child population in King County, they make up more than one-half of all children in foster care in the county.
 * "'Not only are these children coming into the system at a disproportionate rate, but this racial imbalance increases at each step as you progress through the child welfare system,' said Judge Patricia Clark, King County Superior Court, and co-chair of the King County Coalition on Racial Disproportionality. 'The deeper you go in the system, the worse it gets.'"

It seems the same meaning I have used. Another example:


 * Sudden Cardiac Death - Competitive Athletes not Over-Represented


 * http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=24848

I have looked outside to see if someone thinks that Opus Dei is over-represented in governments, and Internet is an open box of surprises:


 * Sunday Morning Herald - Australia


 * http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/06/1086460161250.html?oneclick=true


 * Politicians focus on our sinful ways
 * June 6, 2004
 * "By Australian standards, practising Christians are over-represented in Parliament, writes Brian Toohey."
 * "With few Australians going to church these days, it may seem odd that Peter Costello placed so much faith on religious remedies in a recent speech on society's ills. The speech is less puzzling, however, once it is realised that Costello needs the support of parliamentary colleagues who are far more committed to Christianity than the Australian population as a whole.
 * "According to the latest National Church Life Survey conducted by multi-denominational groups, slightly less than 9 per cent of Australians go to church each week - a 7 per cent drop in attendance since 1996.
 * "The picture among parliamentarians is much more encouraging for Christians who want a bigger influence on Australian life. Precise figures are not available, but the number of active Christians in Federal Parliament is much higher than the national average.
 * "The Parliamentary Christian Fellowship, convened by the NSW Liberal backbencher Bruce Baird, enjoys remarkable support. Baird, a moderate Anglican, says the group draws on a pool of about 60 members.
 * "But another member says off-the-record that the total pool is about 75, although not every Christian MP joins. Even so, the membership estimates are impressive - the total number of federal MPs is only 226. If the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship reflected national averages for committed Christians, it would have a membership of 20.
 * "While some Christians don't join, several less-than-devout MPs allegedly see a political advantage in doing so. One Liberal said privately: 'Belonging to the Fellowship doesn't hurt your chances of being elected to a parliamentary committee, let alone a leadership position.'
 * "Although Labor MPs such as Kevin Rudd and Kim Beazley are members, most come from Coalition ranks. There's no doubting Costello's sincerity, but colleagues say he would be well aware that his recent speech on religion would do his leadership ambitions no harm.
 * "Costello claimed in the speech, excerpts of which appeared in a national newspaper, that Australian society "was founded" on the Christian faith. This claim is disputed by historians who give vivid accounts of the wildly irreligious behaviour exhibited in colonial Australia. But Costello insisted Australia's Christian traditions were "fraying all around us" and that a "recovery of faith" would combat the "moral decay" typified by drug dealers and rap music.  [Let me add a commenton rap music:    :-D   (Uncertain)]
 * "The Christian message takes many forms, including the way Jesus urged people to disdain earthly possessions and "turn the other cheek" when attacked. These qualities are not conspicuous among our politicians. Christian MPs usually focus more on the moral decay regarded as inherent in sexual promiscuity, abortion and stem cell research.
 * "With fundamentalist Christians from the Opus Dei Catholic movement and Pentecostal churches joining political parties in growing numbers, the 91 per cent of Australians who don't make it to church each week can expect to hear a lot more about their sinful ways."

Also in Sweden, I have found this in a British Catholic magazine, The Tablet:
 * The Tablet - Saturday, 8 November 2003
 * http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00812


 * Sweden’s seedling Church
 * Werner Jeanrond
 * "Catholics are making an increasing mark in traditionally Lutheran Sweden. But they have not yet settled on the role they should play in this secular society. (...)
 * "The ranks of Catholics in Sweden have also been swelled by an influx of thousands of immigrants.
 * "Sweden has absorbed sizeable numbers of refugees from Hungary, Poland, Latin America, the former Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Iraq, in addition to a great number of workers from Mediterranean countries. Many immigrants have adjusted well to their new cultural context, others have drifted into the criminal scene and eventually ended up in prison. As the former Bishop of Stockholm, Hubertus Brandenburg, has said, half seriously, “Catholics are over-represented in two institutions in Sweden: the Swedish Academy and the prisons.”"

This is the opinion of the bishop: I am sure he does not agree with me, but he uses the two-words term with the same meaning. Maybe he is wrong. By the way, there is an interesting paragraph from the Swedish public opinion:
 * "The common view in Sweden that the Catholic Church is a monolithic institution is strengthened by official statements from local Catholic authorities. When a leading newspaper, Expressen, questioned the mysterious role of Opus Dei in Church and society in Sweden, the bishop whole heartedly defended the organisation. Any critique of Opus Dei was interpreted as an attack on the entire Catholic Church."

Lovely surprise: John Allen, journalist and corresponsal in the Vatican of a Catholic Magazine, Nationalcatholic, often quoted in this website, uses it in a chronicle:


 * Pope displeased by Europe's rejection of Christian roots; Roots in Spain are robust; Bush's appeal to the Vatican; Possible papal travels


 * By JOHN L. ALLEN jr.


 * http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word062504.htm


 * "The political dimension to U.S./Vatican ties is hardly surprising. The pope is not just another foreign head of state, but the supreme authority of a church with 65 million adherents in the United States. Though American Catholics rarely vote as a block, presidents dare not ignore them. This has never been more true than today, when Catholics are over-represented in the key battleground states that determine presidential winners and losers."

By the way, he wrote that "roots in Spain are robust" because 90% of the people has Baptism. :-D  Who said that Allen is a reliable source? --Uncertain 12:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)