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Originally Posted by 13ball
Read it again. The study had black and white individuals in the working class category and black and white individuals in the middle-class category. THERE WAS STILL BIAS IN THE MIDDLE-CLASS CATEGORYY:
Quite right, I misread the class, however the rest of my point still stands. There is a bias from educated people towards people who seemed less educated. I wouldn't be surprised if they only tested it with black patients using slang instead of something that would be more accurate - normal speaking black patients vs white patients using slang.
I would love to dig through the data and see how it was tested. I would also bet the reverse situations weren't tested because it wouldn't fly politically. The concept of reverse racism doesn't exist because the united States is majority white. I would not be surprised if they did a study using any other set of races against whites that the other race would have a slight bias towards their own race. If they did the same test with only Korean doctors and white patients using slang you'd probably see loltastic bias towards the Korean patients.
We are human beings and we have biases and tribalistic tendencies. Yes, I would not be surprised if white doctors had a bias towards white patients who spoke well vs black patients who used slang and grammatical errors. I would be very surprised if the majority of those white doctors would prefer seeing white patients using slang over black patients who didn't.