A recent study suggests that, in certain countries, people censor more information than portrays low-status groups unfavorably (women, blacks, Muslims) than identical information that portrays high status groups (men, whites, Christians) unfavorably.

The study was conducted with four samples from three countries (adults from the United States and three college-age samples from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hungary) and three domains of group differences.

Discrimination

These “double standards” in censorship preferences fwere more pronounced among political liberals, although moderates and conservatives (especially college-aged moderates and conservatives) showed similar (although weaker and less consistent) patterns.

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These results are consistent with a growing body of work that challenges the conventional wisdom that people have biases and double standards that harm low-status groups and reinforce existing hierarchies. In modern Western societies, at least in recent years, the opposite could happen.

In modern Western societies, at least in recent years, group-based biases in information evaluations appear to be designed to help low-status groups and eliminate or possibly even reverse existing hierarchies.

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The problem is that perhaps we decompensate other groups or we have already done so and we are not yet aware of it: that is, we have begun to discriminate against the groups that We have popularly considered that they are not discriminated against.

For this reason, we must put aside our hunches and base our discriminations on the most objective data possible, and also on statistics. And remember, by fire, the following words as if they were a Robocop directive:

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People are more likely to censor information that portrays low-status or discriminated groups unfavorably.

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As a result of an international scientific collaboration, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) of the NAOC (National Astronomical Observatories of China) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) have conceived a truly gigantic map of the universe.

It digitally extends over 10 trillion pixels and contains around 2 billion objects. Astronomical observations reveal that the universe is expanding and appears to be accelerating.

10 billion pixels

To create this monster map, nearly 200 researchers from NAOC and DESI looked at galaxies and analyzed the data together over the past six years.

Now, DESI will carry out a five-year mission to obtain the redshifts of millions of galaxies and build the largest 3D universe. In this way the mystery of dark energy is intended to be solved: the matter that drives the expansion of the universe.

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The first photograph of Dark Matter

Of all the matter in the visible universe, only one 4% is normal matter, like the stuff from which all the things we know are made. A 23% is made of dark (invisible) matter, which physicists sense exists but don't know what it is. The remaining 73%, that is, almost all the matter in the universe, is dark energy, which is also invisible.

The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) International cooperation project team jointly released the new two-dimensional sky map, paving the way for the upcoming new generation cosmological redshifts survey. (photo/BASS) pic.twitter.com/5oiCYrC6Qp

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This new 2D map of the universe is gigantic and has around 2 billion objects

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