Well duh…..
Probably a DNA based instinct….
I recall the first time my dog encountered a black guy….
The tense moment passed quickly…buddy had dog cookies….
I bet all the Social Justice warriors are waving this thing like a bloody shirt. Babies are RACIST!!!!
No duh. Babies can’t stand anything the least bit different or new. It freaks them out. They always default to the familiar. Survival programing runs deep.
Do babies acclimate to new/different things? Yes, duh. Look at all the Toronto rich kids at the park with their Philippino nannies. They love Nanny, and she loves them back.
Human minds are learning machines. They can overcome their programming if there’s a good reason.
Except Liberals. They never seem to.
More evidence, if more were needed, that psychology is among the weakest academic disciplines. Note the unwarranted assumptions: 15-month-olds have the concepts fairness and ethnicity, and believe that fairness = equal distribution of goods.
The researchers were clever enough to know that only white babies could be racist and chose them for testing.
My daughter, when a toddler, used to hide behind me when black people were near. If racist, so what, she got over it.
Brilliant title for this post, Kate.
There is an ago old saying ..“LIKES ATTRACTt”.
We all prefer to be among those who are most like us. That is human nature. We need to identify with a group or tribe … or FAMILY. To feel secure and loved and wanted …. There are those who are studying this? Why? We already know these things, they are obvious.
Regarding the sense of fairness … that is simply a sign of good mental health and an ability to do math in one’s head. Or that one might be a budding progressive redistributor of other people’s stuff – I ‘get’ that implication. Trying to pull human nature in-line with one’s political and social policies …. that is oh-so leftist.
We have a fondness for those who are most like us. It makes us feel safe to be among our own. That is human nature. That is what is being ignored in the immigration policies of the western world and it will be our undoing. Like the Tower of Babble ….. all the lessons we need, have already been taught to us. Consider, Muslims actually kill those who are not like them. How about studying why that is?
Consider, Muslims actually kill those who are not like them.
Now were talking. Of course that would be a study we will never
see.
I wonder how little kids in a remote Sub-Saharan village react when a white person enters their village.
They all run up to him and demand candy and money. Then they throw stones at him.
““It’s not like one experimenter was nicer or friendlier to the babies – we control for factors like that,”
Really? So why are the toy distributors wearing different colors, and why does one have a more exposed face than the other?
This is stupid.
In the first experiment they play with the sorter while in the second it’s with another child. In the first experiment the toy distribution is uneaven… in who’s favor???? Did the babies actually select away from getting more toys?
The second experiment involves an entirely different set of babies. Had they spent any time in Vancouver?
More importantly, since the white baby receives more toys half of the time, and 30% do not choose based on distribution fairness, then what is remarkable about a single result where the white baby is chosen “more times?”
Is the purpose of this experiment to subtly understate the effects hideous Asian babies have on white babies, and is it even ethical to mix the two in the same room?
Did the Asian babies influence the white babies to select away from them in order to secure lucrative underprivileged statuses? Were the white babies even allowed their nap?
Serious questions for a serious study.
Well duh…..
Probably a DNA based instinct….
I recall the first time my dog encountered a black guy….
The tense moment passed quickly…buddy had dog cookies….
I bet all the Social Justice warriors are waving this thing like a bloody shirt. Babies are RACIST!!!!
No duh. Babies can’t stand anything the least bit different or new. It freaks them out. They always default to the familiar. Survival programing runs deep.
Do babies acclimate to new/different things? Yes, duh. Look at all the Toronto rich kids at the park with their Philippino nannies. They love Nanny, and she loves them back.
Human minds are learning machines. They can overcome their programming if there’s a good reason.
Except Liberals. They never seem to.
More evidence, if more were needed, that psychology is among the weakest academic disciplines. Note the unwarranted assumptions: 15-month-olds have the concepts fairness and ethnicity, and believe that fairness = equal distribution of goods.
The researchers were clever enough to know that only white babies could be racist and chose them for testing.
My daughter, when a toddler, used to hide behind me when black people were near. If racist, so what, she got over it.
Brilliant title for this post, Kate.
There is an ago old saying ..“LIKES ATTRACTt”.
We all prefer to be among those who are most like us. That is human nature. We need to identify with a group or tribe … or FAMILY. To feel secure and loved and wanted …. There are those who are studying this? Why? We already know these things, they are obvious.
Regarding the sense of fairness … that is simply a sign of good mental health and an ability to do math in one’s head. Or that one might be a budding progressive redistributor of other people’s stuff – I ‘get’ that implication. Trying to pull human nature in-line with one’s political and social policies …. that is oh-so leftist.
We have a fondness for those who are most like us. It makes us feel safe to be among our own. That is human nature. That is what is being ignored in the immigration policies of the western world and it will be our undoing. Like the Tower of Babble ….. all the lessons we need, have already been taught to us.
Consider, Muslims actually kill those who are not like them. How about studying why that is?
Consider, Muslims actually kill those who are not like them.
Now were talking. Of course that would be a study we will never
see.
I wonder how little kids in a remote Sub-Saharan village react when a white person enters their village.
They all run up to him and demand candy and money. Then they throw stones at him.
““It’s not like one experimenter was nicer or friendlier to the babies – we control for factors like that,”
Really? So why are the toy distributors wearing different colors, and why does one have a more exposed face than the other?
This is stupid.
In the first experiment they play with the sorter while in the second it’s with another child. In the first experiment the toy distribution is uneaven… in who’s favor???? Did the babies actually select away from getting more toys?
The second experiment involves an entirely different set of babies. Had they spent any time in Vancouver?
More importantly, since the white baby receives more toys half of the time, and 30% do not choose based on distribution fairness, then what is remarkable about a single result where the white baby is chosen “more times?”
Is the purpose of this experiment to subtly understate the effects hideous Asian babies have on white babies, and is it even ethical to mix the two in the same room?
Did the Asian babies influence the white babies to select away from them in order to secure lucrative underprivileged statuses? Were the white babies even allowed their nap?
Serious questions for a serious study.
I hate Liberals, because I was born that way.