Secrets, Lies and Exaggerations

Secrets and Lies

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The rhetoric was powerful and moving. Google search data suggests otherwise. Together with Evan Soltas, then at Princeton, I examined the data. In his speech, the president said: President Obama also said: In other words, Obama seemed to say all the right things. But new data from the internet, offering digital truth serum, suggested that the speech actually backfired in its main goal. Instead of calming the angry mob, as everybody thought he was doing, the internet data tells us that Obama actually inflamed it.

Sometimes we need internet data to correct our instinct to pat ourselves on the back. So what should Obama have said to quell this particular form of hatred currently so virulent in America? Either singular or in its plural form, the word is included in 7m American searches every year.

When are these searches most common? Whenever African Americans are in the news. Among the periods when such searches were highest was the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in , when television and newspapers showed images of desperate black people in New Orleans struggling for their survival.

The frightening ubiquity of this racial slur throws into doubt some current understandings of racism. Any theory of racism has to explain a big puzzle in America. On the one hand, the overwhelming majority of black Americans think they suffer from prejudice — and they have ample evidence of discrimination in police stops, job interviews, and jury decisions.

On the other hand, very few white Americans will admit to being racist. The dominant explanation among political scientists recently has been that this is due, in large part, to widespread implicit prejudice.

White Americans may mean well, this theory goes, but they have a subconscious bias, which influences their treatment of black Americans. Academics invented an ingenious way to test for such a bias. It is called the implicit association test. For white faces, the pattern is reversed. There is, though, an alternative explanation for the discrimination that African Americans feel and whites deny: We are, therefore, in a position to see what it explains.

It also correlates with the black-white wage gap, as a team of economists recently reported. The areas that I had found make the most racist searches underpay black people. When Nate Silver, the polling guru , looked for the geographic variable that correlated most strongly with support in the Republican primary for Trump, he found it in the map of racism I had developed.

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To be provocative and to encourage more research in this area, let me put forth the following conjecture, ready to be tested by scholars across a range of fields. The discrimination black people regularly experience in the United States appears to be fuelled more widely by explicit, if hidden, hostility. But, for other groups, subconscious prejudice may have a more fundamental impact.

For example, I was able to use Google searches to find evidence of implicit prejudice against another segment of the population: And who, might you ask, would be harbouring bias against girls?

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But this question is not asked equally about boys and girls. Are parents picking up on legitimate differences between young girls and boys?

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Perhaps young boys are more likely than young girls to use big words or show objective signs of giftedness? At young ages, girls have consistently been shown to have larger vocabularies and use more complex sentences. Despite all this, parents looking around the dinner table appear to see more gifted boys than girls. In fact, on every search term related to intelligence I tested, including those indicating its absence, parents were more likely to be inquiring about their sons rather than their daughters.

Primarily, anything related to appearance. Just as with giftedness, this gender bias is not grounded in reality. Even though scales measure more overweight boys than girls, parents see — or worry about — overweight girls much more frequently than overweight boys. Parents are also one-and-a-half times more likely to ask whether their daughter is beautiful than whether their son is handsome. In fact, I did not find a significant relationship between any of these biases and the political or cultural makeup of a state.

It has revealed the continued existence of millions of closeted gay men; widespread animus against African Americans; and an outbreak of violent Islamophobic rage that only got worse when the president appealed for tolerance. Not exactly cheery stuff.

If people consistently tell us what they think we want to hear, we will generally be told things that are more comforting than the truth. Digital truth serum, on average, will show us that the world is worse than we have thought. But there are at least three ways this knowledge can improve our lives. First, there can be comfort in knowing you are not alone in your insecurities and embarrassing behaviour.

Google searches can help show you are not alone. If you were anything like me, you ignored your teacher and sat there silently, afraid to open your mouth. The anonymous, aggregate Google data can tell us once and for all how right our teachers were. Plenty of basic, sub-profound questions lurk in other minds, too.

The second benefit of digital truth serum is that it alerts us to people who are suffering. The Human Rights Campaign has asked me to work with them in helping educate men in certain states about the possibility of coming out of the closet. They are looking to use the anonymous and aggregate Google search data to help them decide where best to target their resources.

The final — and, I think, most powerful — value in this data is its ability to lead us from problems to solutions. Recall that every time he argued that people should respect Muslims more, the people he was trying to reach became more enraged. Google searches, however, reveal that there was one line that did trigger the type of response Obama might have wanted. When we lecture angry people, the search data implies that their fury can grow. Two months after that speech, Obama gave another televised speech on Islamophobia, this time at a mosque.

Obama spent little time insisting on the value of tolerance. Obama again spoke of Muslim athletes and armed service members, but also talked of Muslim police officers and firefighters, teachers and doctors. And my analysis of the Google searches suggests this speech was more successful than the previous one. Many of the hateful, rageful searches against Muslims dropped in the hours afterwards.

There are other potential ways to use search data to learn what causes, or reduces, hate. For example, we might look at how racist searches change after a black quarterback is drafted in a city, or how sexist searches change after a woman is elected to office. Learning of our subconscious prejudices can also be useful. Eva Gundelach 6 episodes, Damon Gameau Dave Carroll 6 episodes, Hunter Stratton Boland Thom Murnane 6 episodes, Steven Tandy Kevin Gresham 5 episodes, Mouche Phillips Vanessa Turner 4 episodes, Barbara Lowing Elaine Gresham 4 episodes, Ben Lawson Paul Murnane 3 episodes, Mirrah Foulkes Stuart Haire 3 episodes, Hugh Parker Tim Turner 3 episodes, Bradley Murnane Ryan 3 episodes, Luke Wright Taylor 3 episodes, Michael Croaker Journalist 3 episodes, Darrin Davies Reporter 2 episodes, Ngoc Phan Reporter 2 episodes, Nicole Rowles Reporter 2 episodes, Michael Rodrigues Edit Storyline A man who finds the body of a young boy quickly becomes the prime murder suspect, putting his life and his family at risk.

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