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Discussing preliminary findings can be tricky.
It's preliminary research, but there are some interesting associations here.
The truth is out there.
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.
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.
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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The news
People are more likely to censor information that portrays low-status or discriminated groups unfavorably.
was originally published in
Xataka Science
by
Sergio Parra
.