Wissenschaftler nutzen Gehirnmessungen, um ein Video zu identifizieren, das „Racial Bias“ deutlich verringert. Eine aktuelle Studie legt nahe, dass das Ansehen eines bestimmten, emotional ansprechenden Videos rassistische Vorurteile reduzieren und die Großzügigkeit gegenüber schwarzen Amerikanern steigern kann.
Scientists use brain measurements to identify a video that significantly lowers racial bias
8 Kommentare
You’re telling me that branding comes from propoganda? Hogshit!
It’s called propaganda, very effective
Just like how „A Birth of A Nation“ will do the exact opposite.
People are so easily influenced by media. Those who doubt this fact have their heads in the sand. We are a species who’s ranks are full of gullable idiots who don’t think for themselves, as if they were domestic sheep.
>The researchers note a few potential misinterpretations and limitations regarding their work. Because the study focused on a representative sample of adults in the United States, the findings might not apply to people living in other countries with different cultural histories. The research also specifically examined bias toward Black Americans, so it is not yet clear if the exact same methodology works for other marginalized groups.
>“The data are based on a representative sample of U.S. adults so the findings generalize to the United States but may not hold for other countries,” Zak noted. “We also focused on bias towards Black Americans and our methodology, while likely to affect biases towards other groups, has not been shown to have an effect yet.
I hope they plan to expand this and try different combinations, like the effect between South Asians and East Asians.
I was hoping they’d elaborate more on the testing mechanism itself since that seems to be the most novel component. The coercion through curated content isn’t anything new, and could still be argued as „brain washing“ even if the method is subtle and the intent is positive in nature. Not saying this particular exercise fits the term, but it still sits adjacent.
Here’s what I’m wondering. How do we know the bias is actually ‚reduced‘ and not simply altered? A bias in favor of positive behavior towards a group of people is still a bias even if it’s benevolent.
I would expect that an actual reduction in bias would have to be more thorough and would reflect treatment towards a group of people trending more towards the common baseline and consistent through repeated experiments.
There’s lots of research supporting the premise of this study. I’d be interested in more research on the effect of propaganda frequency. For example, someone can watch 100 super racist Tiktoks, reels, YouTube shorts, etc. in 2 hours. I have a hunch that 100 short videos in 2 hours illicit a stronger bias than one video that is 2 hours long. The 2 hour video may be more factual, have stronger evidence, higher production value, etc., and it may actually work really in debunking a lot of the racist/harmful short form videos, but if someone is exposed to 100 videos per day for weeks or months, their ability to even watch a long form video is probably cooked.
It’s always curious that race is almost always studied for black people, not Asians not Hispanics, not Native Americans…. But always black people.
The video is called Eyes on the Stars and is available on YouTube.
It’s an animated short about Ronald McNair, astronaut who died in the Challenger Explosion, narrated by his brother.