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and can it be eliminated?
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Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism
 Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.
Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of
Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.

More
Bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
 Revealed: the stark evidence of
everyday racial bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

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The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority

ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.
Bias in Britain: explore the poll results
 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.

It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to

focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.

• 53% of people from a minority background believed they

had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”

Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?

 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.

Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

Advertisement
Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8
million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

We’ll get through this together...

...but we need you more than ever. The world faces its biggest
challenge for 80 years. Independent, authoritative news is one
of the most vital and powerful tools we have to meet that
challenge. We believe everyone deserves access to accurate
information, particularly in a crisis like this. So our journalism
is available to all, connecting us, bringing people together to
face down this pandemic. We will continue to deliver this
valuable public service. And we need you to support it.

You’ve read 6 articles in the last six months. Would you

consider paying a modest sum to underwrite our work?
Guardian journalism would not be possible without the
generosity of readers, who now support our work from 180
countries around the world.

We have upheld our editorial independence in the face of the

disintegration of traditional media – with social platforms
giving rise to misinformation, the seemingly unstoppable rise
of big tech and independent voices being squashed by
commercial ownership. The Guardian’s independence means
we can set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Our
journalism is free from commercial and political bias – never
influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This makes
us different. It means we can challenge the powerful without
fear and give a voice to those less heard.

Reader financial support has meant we can keep

investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has
protected our independence, which has never been so critical.
We are so grateful.

We need your support so we can keep delivering quality

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the long term. Every reader contribution, however big or
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Bias

Cônjuge(s) Pero

Irmão(s) Melampo

Filho(s) Talau

Bias, na mitologia grega, foi um irmão de Melampo.

Por causa de Melampo, Argos passou a ter três reis, e dois deles eram
Bias e Melampo. Ele se casou com Pero. Segundo algumas versões,
Bias e Pero são os pais de Talau.

[Expandir]

 v

 d

 e
Mitologia grega

Unconscious bias: what is it

and can it be eliminated?
  This article is more than 1 year old

Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

Shares
287
In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.
 More
Bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old

Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

Shares
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The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.
A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority
ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.
It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to
focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

Advertisement

Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

We’ll get through this together...

...but we need you more than ever. The world faces its biggest
challenge for 80 years. Independent, authoritative news is one
of the most vital and powerful tools we have to meet that
challenge. We believe everyone deserves access to accurate
information, particularly in a crisis like this. So our journalism
is available to all, connecting us, bringing people together to
face down this pandemic. We will continue to deliver this
valuable public service. And we need you to support it.

You’ve read 6 articles in the last six months. Would you

consider paying a modest sum to underwrite our work?
Guardian journalism would not be possible without the
generosity of readers, who now support our work from 180
countries around the world.

We have upheld our editorial independence in the face of the

disintegration of traditional media – with social platforms
giving rise to misinformation, the seemingly unstoppable rise
of big tech and independent voices being squashed by
commercial ownership. The Guardian’s independence means
we can set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Our
journalism is free from commercial and political bias – never
influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This makes
us different. It means we can challenge the powerful without
fear and give a voice to those less heard.

Reader financial support has meant we can keep

investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has
protected our independence, which has never been so critical.
We are so grateful.

We need your support so we can keep delivering quality

journalism that’s open and independent. And that is here for
the long term. Every reader contribution, however big or
small, is so valuable. Support the Guardian from as little
as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you.

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do about it?

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3 Dec 2018
From football to dating to TV: 10 areas rife with racial bias in
UK

'They think I'm a gangster': the young black men caught in

joblessness
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joblessness

Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?

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 Unconscious bias: what is it
and can it be eliminated?
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Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
 in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.

More
Bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old

Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

Shares
2.165

The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority

ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.

It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to

focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

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Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

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Filho(s) Talau

Bias, na mitologia grega, foi um irmão de Melampo.

Por causa de Melampo, Argos passou a ter três reis, e dois deles eram
Bias e Melampo. Ele se casou com Pero. Segundo algumas versões,
Bias e Pero são os pais de Talau.

[Expandir]

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 d

 e
Mitologia grega
 Unconscious bias: what is it
and can it be eliminated?
 This article is more than 1 year old

Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

Shares
287
In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
 in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.

More
Bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old

Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

Shares
2.165

The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority

ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.

It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to

focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
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story?
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Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

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challenge for 80 years. Independent, authoritative news is one
of the most vital and powerful tools we have to meet that
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us different. It means we can challenge the powerful without
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Britain
Published:8 Dec 2018
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and can it be eliminated?
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Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
 in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.

More
Bias in Britain
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Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
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Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

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The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority

ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.

It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to

focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

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The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
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The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
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Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

We’ll get through this together...

...but we need you more than ever. The world faces its biggest
challenge for 80 years. Independent, authoritative news is one
of the most vital and powerful tools we have to meet that
challenge. We believe everyone deserves access to accurate
information, particularly in a crisis like this. So our journalism
is available to all, connecting us, bringing people together to
face down this pandemic. We will continue to deliver this
valuable public service. And we need you to support it.

You’ve read 6 articles in the last six months. Would you

consider paying a modest sum to underwrite our work?
Guardian journalism would not be possible without the
generosity of readers, who now support our work from 180
countries around the world.

We have upheld our editorial independence in the face of the

disintegration of traditional media – with social platforms
giving rise to misinformation, the seemingly unstoppable rise
of big tech and independent voices being squashed by
commercial ownership. The Guardian’s independence means
we can set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Our
journalism is free from commercial and political bias – never
influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This makes
us different. It means we can challenge the powerful without
fear and give a voice to those less heard.

Reader financial support has meant we can keep

investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has
protected our independence, which has never been so critical.
We are so grateful.

We need your support so we can keep delivering quality

journalism that’s open and independent. And that is here for
the long term. Every reader contribution, however big or
small, is so valuable. Support the Guardian from as little
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From football to dating to TV: 10 areas rife with racial bias in UK

3 Dec 2018
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UK

'They think I'm a gangster': the young black men caught in

joblessness
6 Dec 2018
 'They think I'm a gangster': the young black men caught in
joblessness

Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?

2 Dec 2018
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
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is their problem, not mine'
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o How does unconscious bias affect you? Share your
experiences
3 Dec 2018
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experiences

Bias in Britain

A series of reports on the hidden impact of everyday racism


 Racism in Britain: how we revealed the shocking impact of
unconscious bias
Published:26 Jan 2019
Racism in Britain: how we revealed the shocking impact of
unconscious bias

Examining human behaviour and bias

Published:16 Dec 2018
Examining human behaviour and bias

'It amazes me that more isn't done to tackle it': readers on bias in
Britain
Published:8 Dec 2018
'It amazes me that more isn't done to tackle it': readers on
bias in Britain
  Now we know there’s racial bias. The challenge is how to
address it
Hugh Muir
 Published:7 Dec 2018
Now we know there’s racial bias. The challenge is how to
address it
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Cônjuge(s) Pero

Irmão(s) Melampo

Filho(s) Talau

Bias, na mitologia grega, foi um irmão de Melampo.

Por causa de Melampo, Argos passou a ter três reis, e dois deles eram
Bias e Melampo. Ele se casou com Pero. Segundo algumas versões,
Bias e Pero são os pais de Talau.

[Expandir]

 v

 d

 e
Mitologia grega

Unconscious bias: what is it

and can it be eliminated?
  This article is more than 1 year old

Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.
 More
Bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old

Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

Shares
2.165

The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.
A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority
ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.
It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to
focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

Advertisement

Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

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challenge for 80 years. Independent, authoritative news is one
of the most vital and powerful tools we have to meet that
challenge. We believe everyone deserves access to accurate
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is available to all, connecting us, bringing people together to
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consider paying a modest sum to underwrite our work?
Guardian journalism would not be possible without the
generosity of readers, who now support our work from 180
countries around the world.

We have upheld our editorial independence in the face of the

disintegration of traditional media – with social platforms
giving rise to misinformation, the seemingly unstoppable rise
of big tech and independent voices being squashed by
commercial ownership. The Guardian’s independence means
we can set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Our
journalism is free from commercial and political bias – never
influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This makes
us different. It means we can challenge the powerful without
fear and give a voice to those less heard.

Reader financial support has meant we can keep

investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has
protected our independence, which has never been so critical.
We are so grateful.

We need your support so we can keep delivering quality

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Britain
Published:8 Dec 2018
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bias in Britain
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address it
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Filho(s) Talau

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Por causa de Melampo, Argos passou a ter três reis, e dois deles eram
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and can it be eliminated?
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Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
 in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.

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Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
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Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

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The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority

ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.

It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to

focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

Advertisement

Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

We’ll get through this together...

...but we need you more than ever. The world faces its biggest
challenge for 80 years. Independent, authoritative news is one
of the most vital and powerful tools we have to meet that
challenge. We believe everyone deserves access to accurate
information, particularly in a crisis like this. So our journalism
is available to all, connecting us, bringing people together to
face down this pandemic. We will continue to deliver this
valuable public service. And we need you to support it.

You’ve read 6 articles in the last six months. Would you

consider paying a modest sum to underwrite our work?
Guardian journalism would not be possible without the
generosity of readers, who now support our work from 180
countries around the world.

We have upheld our editorial independence in the face of the

disintegration of traditional media – with social platforms
giving rise to misinformation, the seemingly unstoppable rise
of big tech and independent voices being squashed by
commercial ownership. The Guardian’s independence means
we can set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Our
journalism is free from commercial and political bias – never
influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This makes
us different. It means we can challenge the powerful without
fear and give a voice to those less heard.

Reader financial support has meant we can keep

investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has
protected our independence, which has never been so critical.
We are so grateful.

We need your support so we can keep delivering quality

journalism that’s open and independent. And that is here for
the long term. Every reader contribution, however big or
small, is so valuable. Support the Guardian from as little
as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you.

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do about it?

From football to dating to TV: 10 areas rife with racial bias in UK

3 Dec 2018
From football to dating to TV: 10 areas rife with racial bias in
UK

'They think I'm a gangster': the young black men caught in

joblessness
6 Dec 2018
 'They think I'm a gangster': the young black men caught in
joblessness

Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?

2 Dec 2018
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?

o One of the UK's only black Michelin-starred chefs: 'Racism
is their problem, not mine'
6 Dec 2018
One of the UK's only black Michelin-starred chefs: 'Racism is
their problem, not mine'
o How does unconscious bias affect you? Share your
experiences
3 Dec 2018
How does unconscious bias affect you? Share your
experiences

Bias in Britain

A series of reports on the hidden impact of everyday racism


 Racism in Britain: how we revealed the shocking impact of
unconscious bias
Published:26 Jan 2019
Racism in Britain: how we revealed the shocking impact of
unconscious bias

Examining human behaviour and bias

Published:16 Dec 2018
Examining human behaviour and bias

'It amazes me that more isn't done to tackle it': readers on bias in
Britain
Published:8 Dec 2018
'It amazes me that more isn't done to tackle it': readers on
bias in Britain
  Now we know there’s racial bias. The challenge is how to
address it
Hugh Muir
 Published:7 Dec 2018
Now we know there’s racial bias. The challenge is how to
address it
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Cônjuge(s) Pero

Irmão(s) Melampo

Filho(s) Talau

Bias, na mitologia grega, foi um irmão de Melampo.

Por causa de Melampo, Argos passou a ter três reis, e dois deles eram
Bias e Melampo. Ele se casou com Pero. Segundo algumas versões,
Bias e Pero são os pais de Talau.

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 e
Mitologia grega
 Unconscious bias: what is it
and can it be eliminated?
 This article is more than 1 year old

Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
 in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.

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Bias in Britain
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Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
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Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

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The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority

ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.

It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to

focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

Advertisement

Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

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of the most vital and powerful tools we have to meet that
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Guardian journalism would not be possible without the
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We have upheld our editorial independence in the face of the

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commercial ownership. The Guardian’s independence means
we can set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Our
journalism is free from commercial and political bias – never
influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This makes
us different. It means we can challenge the powerful without
fear and give a voice to those less heard.

Reader financial support has meant we can keep

investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has
protected our independence, which has never been so critical.
We are so grateful.

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and can it be eliminated?
 This article is more than 1 year old

Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
 in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.

More
Bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old

Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

Shares
2.165

The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority

ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.

It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to

focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

Advertisement

Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

We’ll get through this together...

...but we need you more than ever. The world faces its biggest
challenge for 80 years. Independent, authoritative news is one
of the most vital and powerful tools we have to meet that
challenge. We believe everyone deserves access to accurate
information, particularly in a crisis like this. So our journalism
is available to all, connecting us, bringing people together to
face down this pandemic. We will continue to deliver this
valuable public service. And we need you to support it.

You’ve read 6 articles in the last six months. Would you

consider paying a modest sum to underwrite our work?
Guardian journalism would not be possible without the
generosity of readers, who now support our work from 180
countries around the world.

We have upheld our editorial independence in the face of the

disintegration of traditional media – with social platforms
giving rise to misinformation, the seemingly unstoppable rise
of big tech and independent voices being squashed by
commercial ownership. The Guardian’s independence means
we can set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Our
journalism is free from commercial and political bias – never
influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This makes
us different. It means we can challenge the powerful without
fear and give a voice to those less heard.

Reader financial support has meant we can keep

investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has
protected our independence, which has never been so critical.
We are so grateful.

We need your support so we can keep delivering quality

journalism that’s open and independent. And that is here for
the long term. Every reader contribution, however big or
small, is so valuable. Support the Guardian from as little
as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you.

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3 Dec 2018
From football to dating to TV: 10 areas rife with racial bias in
UK

'They think I'm a gangster': the young black men caught in

joblessness
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joblessness

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2 Dec 2018
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A series of reports on the hidden impact of everyday racism


 Racism in Britain: how we revealed the shocking impact of
unconscious bias
Published:26 Jan 2019
Racism in Britain: how we revealed the shocking impact of
unconscious bias

Examining human behaviour and bias

Published:16 Dec 2018
Examining human behaviour and bias

'It amazes me that more isn't done to tackle it': readers on bias in
Britain
Published:8 Dec 2018
'It amazes me that more isn't done to tackle it': readers on
bias in Britain
  Now we know there’s racial bias. The challenge is how to
address it
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 Published:7 Dec 2018
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Por causa de Melampo, Argos passou a ter três reis, e dois deles eram
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Unconscious bias: what is it

and can it be eliminated?
  This article is more than 1 year old

Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.
 More
Bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old

Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

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The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.
A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority
ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.
It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to
focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

Advertisement

Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
areas of society including a £90m programme to help tackle
youth unemployment and a Race at Work charter to help
create greater opportunities for ethnic minority employees at
work. We have also launched a consultation on mandatory
ethnicity pay reporting.”

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Irmão(s) Melampo

Filho(s) Talau

Bias, na mitologia grega, foi um irmão de Melampo.

Por causa de Melampo, Argos passou a ter três reis, e dois deles eram
Bias e Melampo. Ele se casou com Pero. Segundo algumas versões,
Bias e Pero são os pais de Talau.

[Expandir]

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 e
Mitologia grega
 Unconscious bias: what is it
and can it be eliminated?
 This article is more than 1 year old

Brought to prominence twenty years ago by a controversial test, the

concept is now essential to our understanding of racism

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 @hannahdev

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Mon 3 Dec

2018 11.10 GMT

Shares
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In the ranking of taboos, racism and sexism come close to the top of
the list. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept of unconscious
or implicit bias has gripped the popular imagination to a greater
degree than any other idea in psychology in recent decades.

Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of

Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to
lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others. Upon
publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new
tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said
affected 90-95% of people.

Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain

series – offered a new explanation for why, despite equalities
apparently being enshrined in law, society still looked so unfair. And
by framing prejudice as something that could be involuntarily soaked
up from the world around us, the IAT provided people and businesses
with an acceptable way to talk about the problem.

Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

 
Read more

Since then, countless studies have confirmed the power of racial

biases to shape everyday decisions in almost every aspect of life.
White job applicants were found to be 74% more likely to have
success than applicants from ethnic minorities with identical CVs.
University professors were found to be far more likely to respond to
emails from students with white-sounding names. US doctors have
been found to recommend less pain medication for black or Latino
patients than white patients with the same injury. White participants
 in a study were found to perceive black faces as more
threatening than white faces with the same expression.

More
Bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old

Revealed: the stark evidence of

everyday racial bias in Britain
 This article is more than 1 year old
Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious
bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

Robert Booth and Aamna Mohdin

Sun 2 Dec 2018 18.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 31 Jul

2019 10.34 BST

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The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority

ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an
unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different
ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority

ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely
to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently
associated with racism – than white people in a comparison
poll.

Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

 
Read more

The survey found that 43% of those from a minority ethnic

background had been overlooked for a work promotion in a
way that felt unfair in the last five years – more than twice the
proportion of white people (18%) who reported the same
experience.

Advertisement

The results show that ethnic minorities are three times as

likely to have been thrown out of or denied entrance to a
restaurant, bar or club in the last five years, and that more
than two-thirds believe Britain has a problem with racism.

The ICM poll, commissioned to launch a week-long

investigation into bias in Britain, focuses on everyday
experiences of prejudice that could be a result of unconscious
bias – quick decisions conditioned by our backgrounds,
cultural environment and personal experiences.

It is believed to be the first major piece of UK public polling to

focus on ethnic minorities’ experiences of unconscious bias,
and comes amid wider concerns about a shortage of research
capturing the views of minority groups.

Q&A
What is unconscious bias?
Show

Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent

direct to you
 
Read more

The poll found comprehensive evidence to support concerns

that unconscious bias has a negative effect on the lives of
Britain’s 8.5 million people from minority backgrounds that is
not revealed by typical data on racism. For example:

• 38% of people from ethnic minorities said they had been

wrongly suspected of shoplifting in the last five years,
compared with 14% of white people, with black people and
women in particular more likely to be wrongly suspected.

• Minorities were more than twice as likely to have

encountered abuse or rudeness from a stranger in the last
week.
• 53% of people from a minority background believed they
had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or
appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

Advertisement

The Runnymede Trust, a racial equality thinktank, described

the findings as “stark” and said they illustrated “everyday
micro-aggressions” that had profound effects on Britain’s
social structure.

“Racism and discrimination for BAME people and minority

faith groups isn’t restricted to one area of life,” said Zubaida
Haque, the trust’s deputy director. “If you’re not welcome in a
restaurant as a guest because of the colour of your skin,
you’re unlikely to get a job in the restaurant for the same
reason. Structural and institutional racism is difficult to
identify or prove, but it has much more far-reaching effects on
people’s life chances.”

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said the findings

were upsetting. “Racial prejudice continues to weigh on the
lives of black and ethnic minority people in the UK. While we
all share the same hard-won rights, our lived experience and
opportunity can vary,” he said.

Recalling being stopped and searched when he was 12,

Lammy said: “Stereotyping is not just something that
happens, stereotyping is something that is felt, and it feels
like sheer terror, confusion and shame.”
Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?
 
Read more

Half of the respondents from a minority background said they

believed people sometimes did not realise they were treating
them differently because of their ethnicity, suggesting
unconscious bias, as well as more explicit and deliberate
racism, has a major influence on the way millions of people
who were born in the UK or moved here are treated.

Advertisement

As well as demonstrating how much more likely ethnic

minorities are to report negative experiences that did not
feature an explicitly racist element, the poll found that one in
eight had heard racist language directed at them in the month
before they were surveyed.

It also found troubling levels of concern about bias in the

workplace, with 57% of minorities saying they felt they had to
work harder to succeed in Britain because of their ethnicity,
and 40% saying they earned less or had worse employment
prospects for the same reason.

The poll persistently found evidence that the gap in negative

experiences was not confined to the past. For example, one in
seven people from ethnic minorities said they had been
treated as a potential shoplifter in the last month, against one
in 25 white people.

Quick guide
About the poll
Show

The findings come a year after Theresa May published a race

disparity audit that identified differences in living standards,
housing, work, policing and health. The prime minister
pledged to “confront these issues we have identified” but
admitted: “We still have a way to go if we’re truly going to
have a country that does work for everyone.”

In October the government said employers could be forced to

reveal salary figures broken down by ethnicity, as they
already do for gender, in a move that lawyers predicted could
lead to a flood of employment tribunal cases. Black, Asian and
minority ethnic unemployment stands at 6.3%, compared with
3.6% for white people.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani households had an average income

of nearly £9,000 a year less than white British households
between 2014 and 2016, and the gap between white and
black Caribbean and black British families was £5,500.

One of the few positive findings was that just over half of
those surveyed said they had either never experienced
someone directing racist language at them, or had not done
so for at least five years.

 This is a vital study of racial bias. Now will Britain take heed?
Afua Hirsch

 
Read more

However, the results raise concerns over efforts to forge a

multicultural British identity, with 41% saying someone had
assumed they were not British at some point in the last year
because of their ethnicity.

People from minorities are twice as likely as white people to

have been mistaken for staff in a restaurant, bar or shop. One
in five said they had felt the need to alter their voice and
appearance in the last year because of their ethnicity.

The effects of bias are not the same for all ethnicities. Half of
black and mixed-race people felt they had been unfairly
overlooked for a promotion or job application, compared with
41% of people from Asian backgrounds. Black people were
more likely to feel they had to work harder to succeed
because of their ethnicity.
Q&A
Tell us: have you been affected by the issues in this
story?
Show

Advertisement

Muslims living in Britain – a large minority at around 2.8

million people – are more likely to have negative experiences
than other religious groups. They are more likely than
Christians, people with no religion and other smaller religions
to be stopped by the police, left out of social functions at work
or college and find that people seem not to want to sit next to
them on public transport.

A government spokesperson said the prime minister was

determined that people of different ethnicities were treated
equally. The spokesperson said: “One year on from [the race
disparity audit’s] launch, we are delivering on our
commitment to explain or change ethnic disparities in all
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