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This acclaimed and hugely influential test, though, has repeatedly fallen short of basic scientific standards.test proves nothing and could let people with bias off the hook and vice versa

Extremely biased presentation on racism. Great way to teach people on how to hate themselves and to believe in false narratives from self-entitled privileged people in influential positions. But then again this is the CBC!

Try having 3 white guys wearing differently and see if people will treat them differently... We are just normal human beings.. not Saints.. so racism, biases etc will always be there.. and the more we over react or being over sensitive, the more these issues will become obvious..

This is such a ridiculous video. Especially the implication that other races are less biased than whites. Asian folks largely stick with Asian folks. Muslims often times only marry Muslims. Most black people in America admit to racial bias and there is a large amount of hate crime against white folks that is not charged that way because of their white skin. Almost everyone has cultural bias. As a matter of fact I would make the argument that white folks are more likely to date and marry outside their race and Christians too.

I find it interesting that they take a single guy of a specific ethnicity to represent them all. \nWhile studies have shown bias, this video here is nothing but race baiting

The questions on the racial test are biased, and worded badly.

The bias test is unfair.. the black guy is just better at picking out bad guys.. what's that say.

To be honest, this whole video seems so biased. I couldn't watch it past the 10 minute mark.\n First of all, if the white guy had been the first to tell the manager that he was interested in the apartments, then of course that same manager is going to tell the 2nd person (asian guy) that the availability is limited. He already HAS a potential renter, why would he need more? The 1st guy already chose one of the apartments, so of course the Asian guy would have less options.\nSecondly, and I'm sorry to say this, but statistically there are more black shoplifting cases than with any other race. It's sad, but true. These retailers are just trying to protect their assets, and it's their right.\nThirdly, that lady was in the wrong, for one, because if a security person is asking to inspect your purse on THEIR retail grounds and you have nothing to hide, then why are you being uncooperative? That just makes you look worse.

Typical biased reporting by the Canadian MSM, but at least unlike the spineless, pig in the trough CBC, they allow comments on topics like this.

While there was definitely bias and some sort of discrimination at times...you haven't proven that any or all are directly related to race.\nNot that they aren't, as they could very well be.

this is biased

Try being a white Male and live on the South East side of Atlanta. It's open season on white people. This show is intentionally biased and promoted racism.

Gotta love how biased this show and network have become.

Subconscious bias is so interesting. Love it.

The presenters seems to be a bit biased thinking that all Syrians are muslims, when in fact many Syrian Arabs are Christians, and they’re the true refugees! At one time Syria also had a thriving Jewish community as well! Arab Muslims are by and large a big issue as well as other Muslims, they need tougher scrutiny than non Muslim Arabs. My friend Mohammad a Christian who was raised Muslim in Syria would agree with me.

All individuals of different cultures segregate themselves and are bias to others

My God, I can not believe the bias. These experiments prove nothing.

Try next time having them wear something if then ran from police would never be able to get away. You have ppl show up in a store all in black then ask them to act suspicious then yeah... Like most of these shows its biased they setup these situations to make a good video making companies look bad. This biased film shpuld feel bad for creating this video.

The creators of the test have removed it because they now know it can't really determine racial bias. Too bad, I would have liked to know how strong of an implicit racial bias I have.

Psychology student here. In the interest of accurate information, I would like to point out some flaws I find with some of the studies in this documentary and question the conclusions reached. I understand that CBC Marketplace are not personality psychologists and therefore cannot be expected to produce the same quality of work as a scientist. However, I think it is worthwhile to think critically about the information in the media that we consume. I am also open to anyone who wants to engage in debating the contents of this documentary.\n\n\nThe following are some notes I took while watching the documentary outlining the individual hypotheses of the studies I think are flawed and descriptions of their respective accompanying errors. \n\n\nThere are three possible research questions, and thereby dependent variables, being answered by the apartment hunting studies.\n1. If there is no discrimination between the white man and the first-nations man, then they should get equal treatment, including quotes and availability, when apartment hunting. \na. Could the gender of the landlord be a confounding variable (perhaps men are more discriminatory than women)? \n \n2. If there is no discrimination between the white man and the first-nations man between Toronto, Montreal, Regina, and Victoria, then they should get equal treatment, including quotes and availability, when apartment hunting. \na. Could total apartments visited be a confounding variable? (4 in Toronto, 3 in Montreal, Regina, and Victoria) \nb. Could the gender of the landlord be a confounding variable (perhaps men are more discriminatory than women)? \nc. They only showed the black man apartment hunting in some of the trials. I am considering him out of the study for consistency purposes. The first-nations man is the only one who got unfair treatment in the footage of apartment hunting. \n \n3. Possible hypothesis: If male landlords/agents are more discriminatory than female landlords/agents, then the white man and the first-nations man will get different treatment at different Canadian apartments in equally diverse cities. \na. Don’t know all the information about the genders of the landlords/agents, not all the footage is shown, but the ones where they get ripped off are male. The others shown are female. The remaining interactions are not shown.\n\n\nThere are also some factors that may have influenced the racial bias survey and, in my estimation, rendered it scientifically unreliable.\n\n\n1. The bias survey and accompanying tests at the CBC attributed the differences between the studies to unconscious racism. What if it was just due to familiarity with certain racial groups over others? \na. The black participants had no bias between European-American and African Americans, supposedly indicating no racism, while the white and first-nations participants did, supposedly indicating racism. Is it possible that another interpretation of this result is that bias is a function of familiarity: that we are comfortable with the majority demographic in the geographical location we live in, as well as our own kind. Therefore, the black guys are less biased against black people due to being both black and living in a white majority demographic? \nb. The participants took the survey knowing the objectives of the researchers was to study racial discrimination. They might have influenced the answers they gave \nc. Whether the participants agreed with identity politics or not was a confounding factor that was not controlled . You can only be racially unbiased biased if you think that racial identity is a means of accurately viewing the world. People who do not believe in the existence of identity politics may answer the questions quite differently, which could be a different reason for the results.\nd. I took the study myself. The words that participants were required to match were a mix of adjectives and nouns. It is known within psychology that nouns have higher levels of imagery. This was not properly controlled and therefore is another confounding variable. \n \nAll the other studies looked fine to me. I welcome any discussion on my observations.

So bias and directed. Love your show (:

Those tests are a little misleading, considering everyone has some kind of bias, even if it’s a neutral bias, and the real test of moral fiber is resisting those automatic preferences consciously and purposefully!

Canada is very good place for black immigrants. If you're a black immigrants in America, you face racism, xenophobia, biases, stereotypes and hate from both the White and black Americans! (Sometimes the blacks can be the worst).

if you didn't have any type of racial bias, you're probably delusional\n\n\nlol

these tests are biased, assuming that only white people are racists. try to carry out the same tests with non-white people. i worked in pakistan for a while, i've never seen anyone so anti-black in my life. do your homework.

What they didn’t mention was that African Americans also have a bias against African Americans when administered that same racial profiling test. In fact, studies have found that asking people to identify their own race at the beginning of standardized tests also causes African Americans to perform worse on tests because it reminds them of their bias against themselves. That’s why they have stopped asking those questions or should stop if they still are.

The software and test have no preloaded bias? Bull. If you hesitate it suggests bias? It doesn't mean your eyes were needing a break.

It's not just race its anybody can be discriminated against by businesses here!And by ANY race!Whites ALSO can be discriminated against by people who ARENT white as well thie is biased reporting!

Everyone has racial bias omg. Who cares as long as you arent actively or have malintentions.

*HBO... part of the lying, left wing, liberal biased, corrupt, FAKE NEWS media!*

Sad to see my country destroying itself by importing the 3rd world. Disgusting biased reporting too. :(

15:25 'take the test ... ' ? There are people who know how to get the result they want from the second test which you claim is difficult to deceive since it tries to measure subconscious bias as opposed to the first which you claim measure more overt bias and thus people can deceive it.

*test your rascit bias. \n\ncuz who never want s to take them lol

This women at the end of the video is a lier, jihad isn't the sixth pillar of islam, there's only 5 and jihad isn't one of them even children know that, and even when the women herself said she want to wear niqab because it's her choice and it makes her feel closer to her faith the other women said it's not her choice and hellfire nonsense, did she ask you to be her representative or did you read her mind?! such hypocrisy, you can easily search on youtube on women convert and how they feel wearing hijab or niqab, and she fears for her life without mentioning any threats from the other side whatsoever, lies hypocrisy and paranoia, this video is biased Islamophobic

I have racial bias but I ignore it because I don't act on impulse. :)

That racial bias test is dumb your mind is trained to make short cuts to get to the fastest solution it's no different than the Mandela effect who remembers the Flintstones or is it flinstones ?

Most people have a racial bias. It happens naturally. That’s why we have to educate ourselves.\n\nIf you had the same race commit a crime over and over, your brain naturally tries to associate the bad people with that race.\n\nWe had all the pictures of previous shoplifters at the store. The majority of shoplifters were from 1 race. A lot of workers can’t distinguish different people of the same race. So they start associating similar features to crimes. \n\n\n\nI have my employees confuse me for another black employee. And I also confuse them for another.

Humans we have external and internal bias (race bias is one of many bias we have). Trying to eliminate any internal bias is impossible unless you're born and raised in a controlled lab till adult. Realistically, we can only hope to minimize the external ones.

I've had stereotype experience too in stores, jobs interviews, clinics, restaurants, kiosk, even hospitals. All places are all biased and this all depends on one person who wrongly judged another person. Sometimes favoritism plays a part of it too.\nIt's like no escape from it.

Just hire the right person not just to fill the rainbow\nHaha no bias ?

In general: All people are biased, in some form and magnitude. This is something built into our DNA, from millions of years of evolution and experience, of meeting, living and/or engaging whit other people. The human brain, central nervous- and hormonal system have changed very little in the latest 20.000 years. The only thing we can do are learn or at least not act on our biased thoughts. On top of this, we have events in our lives, what we have learned from family, friends and people in our closest environment, political views/trends, our environment in general and personality treats which affects us all. What we can do to minimize this is first admitting to our selves what biases we harbour, and not act to the biases. \nThe thing is, we are all alike, but live, learn and/or act differently. We can treat people as we want to be treated ourselves and treat ourselves with the same principle we treat others.\n\n\nBe nice, treat people with the same respect as you demand.

Okay I will be first to admit as a canadaian.. yes canada has racism issues. No questions. Every country does in their own culture and society. And this is a huge problem. But having said that, I personally have not faced or may be was not treated in a face of racially biased way. In recent years, I do see huge changes where we have these occurence alot more but not to a degree to our neghibours to south.

I've been robbed twice by black guys, so yes I'm going to be biased against black men.

Yes, Canadians are. Not all of them, but more than we would like to admit..\nThere is also much bias which is very problematic as well.

everyone has bias

Jokes generalizations and...the truth \nAll people are subconsciously biased a

This clip is so biased, let's face it brown and non European types are more prone to criminal behaviour I don't blame the property manager's for over looking them.

So what you're saying is, if your story is sad enough, you should be able to stay.\n\nAlso, it was money he SPENT on a lawyer, not LOST. Your bias is palpable.

Canada has a job title as “Racial Bias Consultant? And that man actually gets paid to state the obvious? It must be just Canadian!

Cover TOMMY ROBINSON you biased crap.