Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

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.

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.

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.

nicko wrote:Almost every murder by knife in London was by Black on Black.    You can't argue about that !

Thor wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:oh and Thor.....I know I'm a good driver...having been trained in defensive and evasive driving, and having held a PCV licence for many years...now surrendered since I no longer need it.

So you have had extensive skilled dirving lessons, which requires skills right?

Hence the point on certain  people having good driving skills.

That is not based on perceptions, but based on being able to pass highly skilled tests

Correct?

Your view to suspect the study, shows the problem you yourself fail to recognise within yourself

A cognitive bias

Had you looked sketically at your own thinking here and been open minded to the fact. That people do suffer from this kind of bias daily. Where even you no doubt have chosen people through an unsubconcious bias you feel towards them. We are all guilty of this and it effects all of us, through life experinces. 

The reality is more ethnic minorities have and do suffer discrimination. We also see more ethnic minorities are wrongfully stopped by the Police. In fact the arrest ratio is one in 5 that leads to an arrest. Hardly a winning formula and proves how sterotypes formed, through a bias, leads to people making assumptions and often not based on intelligence, but how they perceive someone. Often based on the colour of their skin with the police. So where there is higher criminality levels say in London with those cast black. This becomes endemic in thinking through a bias. Thus more black people come wrongfully under suspicision. As its never based on any evidence, just a stigma, throughsuch a cogntive bias.

When a poll actually matches data on stop and searches. Then you have a correlation to that poll.

Why would you then be skepitical of that evidence?

nicko wrote:Didge, you don't watch TV, or read the papers ?

Thor wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:that isnt the point...stop and search is to remove the weapons BEFORE a murder is committed....and to create an atmosphere where carrying a knife is regarded as "risky"

How many murders have been prevented though stop and search?

I will tell you

Zero

If someone is intent on murder, stop and search will never prevent that

nicko wrote:Didge, you don't watch TV, or read the papers ?

Almost half of murder victims - as well as suspects - were black despite the ethnic group accounting for just 13% of London's population.

Tommy Monk wrote:

Thor wrote:


How many murders have been prevented though stop and search?

I will tell you

Zero

If someone is intent on murder, stop and search will never prevent that

Stop and search deters the carrying of knives and other contraband... therefore reducing the numbers of knives being carried which therefore reduces the likelihood of a knife being used in any random street fight/altercation... or in any other scenario too!

Tommy Monk wrote:How can you put a figure on prevention?

It is an unknown quantity!

Thor wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:How can you put a figure on prevention?

It is an unknown quantity!

Easily when over the last couple of years the numbers of murders and stabbings has increased

So how has stop and search prevented any of the stabbings and murders?

Can you not easily grasp these facts?

Again stop and search is a lottery

Raggamuffin wrote:For example, one person who doesn't get the promotion they hoped for might think they're not experienced enough, or they don't have the qualifications. Another person who doesn't get the promotion they hoped for might think it's because of their ethnic background, or because they're female. Do you see that the experience is the same, but the perception of it is different?

Tommy Monk wrote:

Thor wrote:


Easily when over the last couple of years the numbers of murders and stabbings has increased

So how has stop and search prevented any of the stabbings and murders?

Can you not easily grasp these facts?

Again stop and search is a lottery

Easily... if stop and search was more prevalent then the numbers of people carrying knives would have been reduced... therefore many of the minor alterations that have happened over the years that turned into a killing by someone pulling a knife out, would not have happened as less of the ones involved would have actually been carrying knives in the first place!

eddie wrote:I’m still waiting to find out how many people have to be polled for Tommy to believe in a poll.

Is there a magic number?

Tommy Monk wrote:

eddie wrote:I’m still waiting to find out how many people have to be polled for Tommy to believe in a poll.

Is there a magic number?

The only polls that are valid... are the ones where everyone is asked...


Ie... General election... or national referendum etc...

Tommy Monk wrote:

Propaganda is used to manipulate...