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The refusal of taxi drivers to take foreign passengers is seen more and more as a poitical reaction, but Simpson’s Paradox talks about all the other reasons a driver won’t accept her.

Often I hop into a Beijing taxi, only to get out again when the driver refuses to take me where I want to go. I thought this was a reaction to my bad Chinese but as I understand more and more, I’m stunned by the reasons the drivers refuse to take me.

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Meg wrote this on July 14th, 2008 and filed it under Travel |