Abstract
A widely-cited study reported evidence that White Americans reported higher ratings of how much Whites are the victims of discrimination in the United States than of how much Blacks are the victims of discrimination in the United States. However, much fewer than half of White Americans rated discrimination against Whites in the United States today to be greater or more frequent than discrimination against Blacks in the United States today, in data from the American National Election Studies 2012 Time Series Study or in preregistered analyses of data from the American National Election Studies 2016 Time Series Study or from a 2017 national nonprobability survey. Given that relative discrimination against Black Americans is a compelling justification for policies to reduce Black disadvantage, results from these three surveys suggest that White Americans’ policy preferences have much potential to move in a direction that disfavors programs intended to reduce Black disadvantage.
Highlights
IntroductionThe presence of evidence of discrimination against Black Americans and of evidence of discrimination against White Americans raises the question of the direction and size of the net balance of Black/White discrimination in the United States
A widely-cited study reported evidence that White Americans reported higher ratings of how much Whites are the victims of discrimination in the United States than of how much Blacks are the victims of discrimination in the United States
In a non-preregistered analysis, the p-value was less than p=.001 for a Wald test of the hypothesis that the constant in a linear regression predicting a dichotomous variable coded 1 for participants who reported greater discrimination against Black Americans equaled the constant in a linear regression predicting a dichotomous variable coded 1 for participants who reported greater discrimination against White Americans
Summary
The presence of evidence of discrimination against Black Americans and of evidence of discrimination against White Americans raises the question of the direction and size of the net balance of Black/White discrimination in the United States Perceptions of this balance have the potential to influence legal outcomes and influence support for race-targeted programs For assessing whether White Americans really do perceive there to be more discrimination in the United States today against Whites than against Blacks, the three studies below reported on data from large-sample surveys that permit more straightforward research designs that focus participants on the contemporary time period and/or on direct comparisons of discrimination against Blacks and Whites in the United States today
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