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The most racist places in America, according to Google
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:10 pm
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Where do America's most racist people live? "The rural Northeast and South," suggests a new study just published in PLOS ONE.
The paper introduces a novel but makes-tons-of-sense-when-you-think-about-it method for measuring the incidence of racist attitudes: Google search data. The methodology comes from data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. He's used it before to measure the effect of racist attitudes on Barack Obama's electoral prospects.
"Google data, evidence suggests, are unlikely to suffer from major social censoring," Stephens-Davidowitz wrote in a previous paper. "Google searchers are online and likely alone, both of which make it easier to express socially taboo thoughts. Individuals, indeed, note that they are unusually forthcoming with Google." He also notes that the Google measure correlates strongly with other standard measures social science researchers have used to study racist attitudes.
This is important, because racism is a notoriously tricky thing to measure. Traditional survey methods don't really work -- if you flat-out ask someone if they're racist, they will simply tell you no. That's partly because most racism in society today operates at the subconscious level, or gets vented anonymously online.
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Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:12 pm to hikingfan
Is that split up by area code?
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:12 pm to nolanola
dumbest map ever
idaho is way below racist?? lo-frickin-ol
idaho is way below racist?? lo-frickin-ol
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:13 pm to stlslick
It's based on google searches that include the n-word
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:14 pm to hikingfan
This was posted somewhere earlier but doesn't bother me.
What does bother me is broad generalizations about large groups of people as determined by arbitrary criteria.
What does bother me is broad generalizations about large groups of people as determined by arbitrary criteria.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:14 pm to ell_13
quote:rap fans are racist
It's based on google searches that include the n-word
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:16 pm to hikingfan
Arbitrary criteria and no way Chicago is less than average.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:16 pm to nolanola
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What about Germany?
Do people still think this shite is funny or clever in any way?
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:16 pm to hikingfan
Vidor, TX is the most racist town I've ever visited.
This post was edited on 4/28/15 at 8:23 pm
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:17 pm to stout
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Do people still think this shite is funny or clever in any way?
It was an honest question. The OP posted a map. I was looking for data from other areas.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:17 pm to Kafka
So places with the largest concentration of blacks who openly use that word in public more than likely use it in their search engines.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:20 pm to hikingfan
Less than average to much more than average from Harrison county to Jackson county
I guess people turn racist when they drive over the Ocean Springs bridge from Biloxi
I guess people turn racist when they drive over the Ocean Springs bridge from Biloxi
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:25 pm to hikingfan
Shouldn't there be a larger portion of "average"
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:27 pm to ell_13
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It's based on google searches that include the n-word
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For the PLOS ONE paper, researchers looked at searches containing the N-word. People search frequently for it, roughly as often as searches for "migraine(s)," "economist," "sweater," "Daily Show," and "Lakers." (The authors attempted to control for variants of the N-word not necessarily intended as pejoratives, excluding the "a" version of the word that analysis revealed was often used "in different contexts compared to searches of the term ending in '-er'.")
That's so stupid. In Texas, people are more racist towards Hispanics than blacks. In the Northwestern part of the U.S., plus Alaska, the white people complain about Native Americans. Hell, the only blacks they see are college educated.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:27 pm to hikingfan
Wow, would ya look at that. West Virginia mountain people.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 8:28 pm to Puck82
I don't think we are looking at the same map
bunch of big cities on that thing are blue, especially in the south
New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Miami, etc
and plenty of red in some remote places
bunch of big cities on that thing are blue, especially in the south
New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Miami, etc
and plenty of red in some remote places
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