Posted on 11/14/2020 9:57:44 AM PST by rktman
The University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered — to its surprise — that most of its students are not discriminatory.
UW psychology professor Markus Brauer, who led the study, said that students from marginalized backgrounds “are very frequently the target of discrimination or offensive comments.” To test students’ habits around inclusivity, Brauer and his team hired actors over the course of several years to represent students from marginalized backgrounds — Black, Asian American, and Muslim, as well as a male who wore a “gay pride” shirt — to participate in behaviors that could elicit discrimination from other students.
The researchers, who expected to find a high degree of discrimination, found that the vast majority of students treat students from different backgrounds equally well.
“We were surprised by these results,” explained Brauer. “We tried out one situation, then another one, and so forth. But study after study came back with the same result: Most students did not treat our white actor more positively than the Black, Asian, or Muslim actors.”
The study found that only 20 percent of students engage in “subtle or explicit forms of discrimination.”
However, Brauer said that the study did not address “microaggressions,” or reactions to “norm transgressions.”
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The ‘perfesser’ projects his own proclivities onto the student population and is perplexed when he doesn’t find them there.
” . . . to participate in behaviors that could elicit discrimination from other students.”
Seems to me like the selection of such behaviors may be racist.
Or is UWM paving the way for a new narrative should Sleepy Joe successfully steal the election?
So who decides which behaviors might elicit or incite some negative response. These peeple are SOOOOOOOOO smart. Right?
The majority of people don’t even care about this crap. They are too busy working & enjoying life.
Just wait. Next time they will be more careful to expand the definition of racism/harmful conduct/discrimination so they can claim to have found what they desperately want to exist.
How do you measure something that is a figment of their imaginations?
These college folks don’t get out much. Just go to any busy shopping center or airport and observe how the races mingle, even, often, as families.
And if he tried the same experiment in any redneck town in flyover America he’d get the same result.
Being “not racist” means you must be a leftist and approve of illegal immigration.
Yeah but what about the racism the black and muslim students hold towards whites? Bet the professor didn’t ask them anythig about that.
So they tried and tried to get the results they wanted, and still couldn't make it come that way.
“...marginalized backgrounds — Black, Asian American, and Muslim,...”
“...over several years...” I know, I know, weird.
And this study confirms that academics are about 40 years behind our heartland culture
Another example of how fraudulent of an academic discipline psychology is ! A discipline that creates a mindset where that type of prejudgment is made.
At best it’s a pseudoscience. One step above tarot cards.
Agree !
Astrology is more scientific !
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