Customer surveys can obscure discrimination

Customer satisfaction surveys can mask discrimination on the part of financial services employees, new research finds.

Rachel Cramer-Iowa State • futurity
Feb. 1, 2023 • ~8 min

Customer surveys can obscure discrimination

Customer satisfaction surveys can mask discrimination on the part of financial services employees, new research finds.

Rachel Cramer-Iowa State • futurity
Feb. 1, 2023 • ~8 min

Mexican immigrant experience varies by skin tone

Mexican immigrants with darker skin tones report more discrimination from US-born whites, a study in two cities finds.

Tufts University • futurity
Jan. 24, 2023 • ~7 min

Indian American teens: Discrimination started early

Interviews with Indian American teens reveal that discrimination against them began as early as preschool.

Texas A&M University • futurity
Dec. 20, 2022 • ~5 min

Why you could have 'face-ism' – an extreme tendency to judge people based on their facial features

New research shows some people make extreme personality judgments based solely on facial appearance

Paddy Ross, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Durham University • conversation
Dec. 2, 2022 • ~6 min

What the Respect for Marriage Act does and doesn’t do

Law professor Leonore Carpenter explains the Respect for Marriage Act, which enshrines protections for same-sex and interracial marriages in federal law.

Patti Zielinski - Rutgers • futurity
Dec. 2, 2022 • ~8 min

Clinical trials often exclude people with intellectual disabilities

An expert explains why excluding people with intellectual disabilities from clinical trials is a problem and what can be done to change it.

Daryl Lovell-Syracuse • futurity
Nov. 18, 2022 • ~8 min

The White House's 'AI Bill of Rights' outlines five principles to make artificial intelligence safer, more transparent and less discriminatory

Many AI algorithms, like facial recognition software, have been shown to be discriminatory to people of color, especially those who are Black.

Christopher Dancy, Associate Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering, Penn State • conversation
Oct. 28, 2022 • ~8 min

Why critical race theory gets people so mad

"Critical race theory is an effort to explain why 10 years after Brown, no desegregation had occurred." Here's why that gets people riled up.

Stanford • futurity
Oct. 11, 2022 • ~12 min

'Men who have sex with men' originated during the HIV pandemic to focus on behavior rather than identity – but not everyone thinks the term helps

The term ‘MSM’ allows public health interventions to gloss over the social, political and cultural complexities of identity. But it’s not without its limitations.

JaNelle Ricks, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, The Ohio State University • conversation
Sept. 22, 2022 • ~7 min

/

10