Study Suggest Black Women's Relative Invisibility in Society
New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either gender. Full Story »
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Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Nov 24, 2009 - 5:52 AM PST
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Kaizar Campwala - Nov 24, 2009 - 6:38 AM PST
This is based on one study, so it should be taken as only one piece of evidence. Jacobs does a good job of reporting on the study without drawing broad conclusions.
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This is an extremely small sample on an unidentidified campus with a very small universe. The study in question has not yet been peeer reviewed nor has its testing validity confirmed. This is the same hype that followed cold fusion, until the results can be confirmed it Requires that a JOURNALIST state that all findings are preliminary.
The fault here lies not so much with the reporter but with his editor, who probably prefers senationalism over fact.
This research investigated the hypothesis that better recognition for own-race than other-race faces is a result of social categorization rather than perceptual expertise. ... More »
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