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2017-04-13 Science & Technology

Your parents are to blame. You were a racist at age six months.

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-13 08:02|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Now that we've established that it's normal and has evidently always been that way, can we get on with getting the grown ups to calm down?
You would want to argue with science, would ya? (You might end up worming a Gerbil or something.)

Posted by ed in texas 2017-04-13 08:26|| 2017-04-13 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 IMHO, the study reads like so much happy bull crap. Sounds like the researchers are reading their own biases and inferences into the study. How do they operationally define racism for 6-9 month old infants that is meaningful?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-13 08:54|| 2017-04-13 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 "It's the ~~MAN~~ infants keeping me down!"

Posted by Frank G 2017-04-13 09:17|| 2017-04-13 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not racist.

I just hate all you idiots equally.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-04-13 09:22|| 2017-04-13 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 So infants prefer the familiar to the unfamiliar? Who, besides everyone who has ever been around one, knew?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-04-13 09:24|| 2017-04-13 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Barry Soetoro and Colin Kaepernick being the odd exceptions.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-13 09:36|| 2017-04-13 09:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Nonsense. Even toddlers are not racist.

Posted by European Conservative 2017-04-13 09:40|| 2017-04-13 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 This study forgot to mention that this only applies to infants of white parents.

Posted by gorb 2017-04-13 10:06|| 2017-04-13 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Um, isn't there definition of racism as happy v. sad music just a trifle problematic.

Posted by AlanC 2017-04-13 11:40|| 2017-04-13 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Only if you have a brain.

Posted by gorb 2017-04-13 12:56|| 2017-04-13 12:56|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd bet toddler boys play with other toddler boys regardless of color over playing with toddler girls. Again familiarity.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-04-13 14:44|| 2017-04-13 14:44|| Front Page Top

#12 "In both studies, infants less than six months of age were not found to show such biases".

Do they even have proper vision at less than six months?

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-04-13 14:44|| 2017-04-13 14:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Below the age of six months infants are not aware of strangers. After that inflection point they differentiate between people they know and everyone else. By eight months trailing daughter #1, whose short life had already held quite a few multi-week periods when Mr.Wife was on the far side of the world -- we accepted the transfer to Germany so that he would only be away about three days each week, and no more than one time zone away -- had clearly sorted the adult male population into Daddy, men with dark hair and mustaches who might be Daddy and therefore were promising targets, men with dark hair, and all other men. Women were sorted into Mommy, women she knew who were not Mommy, and all other women.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-13 16:23|| 2017-04-13 16:23|| Front Page Top

#14 How do these infants respond to "rap."

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-13 19:36|| 2017-04-13 19:36|| Front Page Top

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