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'.")
It's also important to note that not all people searching for the N-word are motivated by racism, and that not all racists search for that word, either. But aggregated over several years and several million searches, the data give a pretty good approximation of where a particular type of racist attitude is the strongest.
Interestingly, on the map above the most concentrated cluster of racist searches happened not in the South, but rather along the spine of the Appalachians running from Georgia all the way up to New York and southern Vermont.
Other hotbeds of racist searches appear in areas of the Gulf Coast, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and a large portion of Ohio. But the searches get rarer the further West you go. West of Texas, no region falls into the "much more than average" category. This map follows the general contours of a map of racist Tweets made by researchers at Humboldt State University.
Whew, it's a good thing they thought to not count "nigga" so they can fit it to the narrative.
ReplyDeleteIn the article they mentioned the variations which were considered as well. But, all you wanted to do is drop a quick disagreeable remark, right?
DeleteMike you dont actually believe this contrived BS do you? There is absolutely no way to tell the race of the searcher therefor there is no way to know the intent of the search and then trying to link that to the mortality of blacks just more made up pulled out ass lies from biased researchers and regurgitated by Mr Ingraham......They seem to be using the same methods as you for coming to their conclusions on who is racist....LIE LIE LIE
ReplyDeleteOne Race The Human Race...Stop allowing others including the Gov to separate you by race and stop doing it to yourselves ... I have not answered any questions related to race on any form since the 80s including Gov forms
Obviously the "n" word is often used by blacks referring to each other. So, no, I don't think this "contrived BS" makes much sense.
DeleteI suppose it all depends on who you're being compared to,
ReplyDelete"Anglo and Latin countries most tolerant. People in the survey were most likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor in the United Kingdom and its Anglo former colonies (the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and in Latin America. The only real exceptions were oil-rich Venezuela, where income inequality sometimes breaks along racial lines, and the Dominican Republic, perhaps because of its adjacency to troubled Haiti. Scandinavian countries also scored high."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/