People who hate this article seem to really love the just delete it and start over argument Scientists test null hypotheses like there is no difference between X and Y all the time And when there is a statistically significant deviation from the null hypothesis scientists are so bold as to say X is different from Y So yes social scientists can be so bold as to say that there are differences in treatment between blacks and whites where all other things are equal There s nothing wrong with stating those scientific conclusions in an encyclopedic article especially when it s backed by multiple reliable sources If people have a problem with those conclusions they can cite criticisms of the studies or cite other studies that refute those conclusions