Posted on 04/16/2014 1:03:23 PM PDT by lbryce
Toddlers show racial bias when picking playmates, a study reveals. They also take account of how fairly others behave. Researchers tested the reaction of white 15-month-olds as toys were distributed.Two white adults divided the toys, one equally and the other unequally.
Seventy per cent of the toddlers chose to play with the researcher who distributed the toys fairly.
But in a second test, when one researcher favoured a white recipient over an Asian one, they picked the ‘fair’ researcher less often, the journal Frontiers in Psychology reports.
And the babies are more likely to help those who share the same ethnicity, which is known as in-group bias when people favour those with the same characteristics as oneself.
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This has to be one of the most ill conceived ‘tests’ that sociologists have ever come up with....
First assumption is that a baby of 15 months has the brain capacity to determine anything other than I want, I need. Babies don’t understand the idea of ‘fairness’ or equality or even race.
I bet tax payer bucks were spent on this crapola
Dogs raised by blacks and who spend almost all their time with blacks, are VERY cautious around white folks...sometimes hostile.
The reverse is also true.
It's an evolutionary development. That which is different must be treated with caution.
Which is also as it should be. </sarcasm>
Liberals love to promote evolution and speciation as a good thing but then act all upset about the logical consequence of their belief in it.
For example as “renowned” anti bush liberal atheist evolutionist Richard Dawkins points out populations that are similar to each other will pick out superficial markers to futher differentiate. Even though they are capapble of interbreeding they don’t. His example was two frog populations in Arkansas that use different breeding calls to discriminate even though they are still fundamentally the same species. It is lauded as proof of early specitaiton and a great thing. It is also used as proof that modern humans underwent speciation historically. When humans actually show the same evolutionary tendencies today though they get all upset.
Did we pay for this idiotic study? Was it done by the same people who put the shrimp on a treadmill?
And black babies take kindly to white babies. Looks like there’s going to be some selfhating white program to deprogram these racist babies
That time will come soon enough — don’t be so impatient.
Jessica Sommerville is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director for the Foundations for Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Competence at the Center for Child and Family Well-Being. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2002.
If it’s natural then we need to celebrate it like homosexuality, right?
I don’t know enough about this study to ascertain if it has any validity whatsoever. Most of what I see today seems to be faulty, if not fraudulent, science.
Fraud is nearly certain if you ask me
I’d be surprised if this “study” didn’t include an agenda.
There is an obvious and major flaw in this study. At 15 months, children are not yet self aware and therefore have no idea what they look like. They are not yet able to recognize themselves in a mirror and have NO IDEA WHAT RACE THEY ARE.
what is “fair” is subjective and I reject the premise.
babies are not thinking with any preconceived biases like liberal racist nutjobs are. it takes years of idiotic programming and no correction, to think like a libtard.
Of course it’s true. Just as black babies prefer eating water melons, and fried chicken. And they were born “TAP DANCING”. Does every body see what I’m saying? These people will come up with anything to divide this country more and more. And once they have created as much racial strife as they can, they’ll just step back and watch us tear into each other. Unless we are smart enough to realize that what they’re saying is completely BS
I am sure there is an agenda
That would be my guess.
Why doesn’t the press and these “researchers” admit what they want instead of hiding behind their ridiculous studies?
They want White people exterminated!
Jagdgewehr, the correct term is: gaybies.
Let’s not let this happen again, shall we?
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