ABSTRACT
Thoughts expressed here are those of one person from one agency (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC) and are not necessarily the official thoughts of any federal agency. Given the role of the enforcement agencies, the perspective is somewhat plaintiff-oriented. But the EEOC files cases in federal courts, where complaints are subject to the judicial adversarial process and the overall burden of proof is on the plaintiffs. The statistical questions, if not the answers, are common to both sides. It should be noted that, while some cases involve complex analyses, the run-of-the-mill case involving the EEOC does not reference all the complexity contained in this volume.
