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Baton Rouge more racist than average, New Orleans less racist
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:13 pm
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Baton Rouge is among places that are a "more than average" level of racist, according to The Washington Post. New Orleans, however, ranks among places "less than average."
The newspaper published findings from a study in PLOS ONE, which analyzed Google data for searches containing the n-word and its contextual variants (like those used in music lyrics).
The result is a map of the United States, which researchers say shows, region by region, the racism in various parts of the country. Racism, however, is difficult to quantify and difficult to pinpoint, but researchers believe the online searches are an indicator of private thought not censored by social norms.
The areas researchers called the racist were concentrated most heavily along the Appalachian Mountains running through the Northeast, as well as a patch in the the central Deep South.
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Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:15 pm to WPBTiger
Searching for the n word means racist? Wtf
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:15 pm to WPBTiger
St George
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:15 pm to WPBTiger
I can live with that
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:16 pm to WPBTiger
So there isn't a place that has an average amount of racism?
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:16 pm to Cosmo
quote:What would be a non-racist search purpose?
Searching for the n word means racist? Wtf
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:17 pm to Cosmo
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:17 pm to WPBTiger
Places without a lot of black people aren't racist!!! 
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:17 pm to Cosmo
I get banned for saying the N word in golf threads.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:17 pm to WPBTiger
Interesting statistical analysis. I don't think there's much denying the findings, however the underlying principle of their research is a little faulty.
Good article. Have an upvote.
Good article. Have an upvote.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:17 pm to WPBTiger
Washington Post;dr
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:18 pm to WPBTiger
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analyzed Google data for searches containing the n-word and its contextual variants (like those used in music lyrics).
all this did was show who googles the n word more? And then label them racist?
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:18 pm to WPBTiger
Did they subtract the searches by people who are allowed to use the n-word?
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:18 pm to The Mick
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What would be a non-racist search purpose?
Looking up lyrics to half of the songs in the hip hop genre?
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:19 pm to WPBTiger
Probably has to do with the 50/50 population and how closely they mingle in BR. I bet many of those "not racist" people have zero life experience around African American thugs
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:19 pm to WPBTiger
Wait, so places with a lot of rap listeners are racist? Out of all of the dumbest chart/maps, this is probably #1.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:21 pm to Yellerhammer5
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Did they subtract the searches by people who are allowed to use the n-word?
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(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'.")
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:21 pm to genro
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Places without a lot of black people aren't racist!!!
New Orleans doesn't have a lot of black people? Uh...okay.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:21 pm to WPBTiger
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Racism, however, is difficult to quantify and difficult to pinpoint, but researchers believe the online searches are an indicator of private thought not censored by social norms.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 1:24 pm to lsuwontonwrap
quote:New Orleans is racist bruh. "less than average" is still racist.
New Orleans doesn't have a lot of black people? Uh...okay.
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