In a study of more than 2,500 participants published today in Science Advances, Sheen S. Levine, adjunct research scholar in the sociology department at Columbia University and professor of management at University of Texas, Dallas; Charlotte Reypens, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick; and David Stark, professor of sociology at Columbia University, show that white Americans pay less attention to Black peers.
In earlier research, Stark and Levine showed that an ethnically diverse group of traders was more likely to calculate accurate prices for stocks, making the case that a diverse workforce is a smarter workforce.
Years after this research was published, Levine observed that people in the business community "seemed earnestly interested in promoting diversity." However, in his conversations with Black people in the workforce, he learned that they "felt welcome at the door," but their ideas and accomplishments were often ignored. To test this lack of attention, Levine and Stark developed a model to measure people's willingness to learn from others.
In fact, the researchers found that participants were 33 percent more likely to pay attention to and learn from white peers compared to Black ones; they also rated Black peers as less skilled than white peers.
"Leaders of organizations should pay attention to these findings in order to understand racial disparity in patterns of attention," Stark said. "It's in everyone's interest that we find ways to remedy this 'racial attention deficit'."
"Diversity promotes enhanced levels of performance," said theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates, Jr., president of the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science. "However, diversity only works if there is a vigorous exchange of ideas. In the paper, Racial Attention Deficit, Levine, Reypens, and Stark illustrate how this communication is not occurring between white and Black colleagues to the detriment of the workplace environment."
"The authors of this paper have made a significant contribution to the social sciences by demonstrating behaviorally how and how much white people ignore, overlook, and underestimate Black people," said Michèle Lamont, professor of sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and former president of the American Sociological Association. "Their study of 'recognition gaps' explores new paths in our understanding of how inequality operates, which has everything to do with how everyday judgements of worth are omnipresent and make racism so hard to combat."
Social science is just belligerent dogma.
How do we know it's dogma? Because it's always anti-white.
Disagree?
Then why is "science" never anti-jewish, anti-black, or anti-gay?
When was the last time you saw a "scientific study" that didn't conclude "diversity is our strength"?
How easy would it be to present a theory debunking the concept of "diversity is our strength"? A team of black 7th graders could easily win that debate. All they would have to say is what these scientists said: "white people are racist, prove me wrong."
And why are the "scientists" always either jewish, overweight white women or feminist males?
These "scientists" are so blinded by their hatred of white people that can't see the forest through the trees.
They're so full of hatred for white people that they can't see how their anti-white racism is actually..... racism.
They're paradoxically both anti-racist and anti-white.
I'm going to present a scientific theory that is actually based on the science:
Anti-racist just means anti-white.
Prove me wrong.
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