NY Times Story on Pilot Population Decline

(remember the prepends?)

In 1993, he
showed a group of children a drawing of a chubby black child dressed
up as a policeman, followed by photos of several adults, each of whom
had two of the three traits: being black, chubby and dressed as a
policeman. Asked to decide which person was the boy as a grown-up,
most children chose a black adult even though he was either not
overweight or minus a police uniform. "Kids appear to believe," says
Hirschfeld, "that race is more important than other physical
differences in determining what sort of person one is."

Being chubby and being a policeman are changable traits. Skin color is
not (unless you are a rock star). Therefore, the conclusion (in this
summary) is not warranted by the (apparantly flawed) experiment.

The Hammond and Axelrod experiment was interesting though.

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