Almost one in four black men under age 35, 24%, say the police have treated them unfairly during the last 30 days. Among blacks, this percentage drops to as low as 10% among women 55 and older. [cont.] Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
Trayvon Martin and the Burden of Being a Black Male
Could race could have played any role in the confrontation that resulted in Treyvon Martin’s death and in the jury’s interpretation of the evidence that led them to acquit George Zimmerman? … “Race” can work in ways that are exceedingly difficult to detect. White opinion of blacks contains important implicit […] Read more »
Out, damned spot: The ‘mindbugs’ of bias that sneak into our brains
For more than 30 years, psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald have been studying the unconscious biases that take root in our brains, coloring everything from hiring decisions to how doctors mete out medical care and judges pass sentence. If you don’t think you harbor any such mental stowaways, tugging […] Read more »
How do you tell when the news is biased? It depends on how you see yourself
… Many people have tried to define what media bias is, and attempted to measure it, but I want to try to answer a different question here: not how we can decide if the news is biased, but how each of us actually does decide — and what it means […] Read more »