PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sewing Needle, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Toronto Star
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In the context of the world, every race is a minority: ex: people of european descent are only one-fifth of the world"s population, and will be one-eighth within another half century. Thanks to mobility and migration over the past 2 centuries, the world"s races now intermingle. Majority group members tend to compare the present with the oppressive past and to perceive swift and radical progress. Minority group members tend to compare the present with their ideal world, which has not yet been realized, and to perceive somewhat less progress. We can detect bias in behaviour in the results of these studies: To test for possible labour market discrimination, m. i. t. researchers sent 5000 resum s out in response to 1300 varied employment ads. Greg) received one callback for every 10 resum s sent. Those given black names (lakisha, jamal) received one callback for every 15 resum s sent. In one analysis of traffic stops, african americans and latinos were:
