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...order." I can still remember the horror with which, some 30 years ago, a white man told me of a race riot he had witnessed and his pity for its victims; and though it may seem strange to some, his relation of the incidents was absolutely without racial bias. The fact is that in those days no one who did not condemn race riots would have come out of his hole to admit it. Indeed, until recently it would have been difficult to find anyone of intelligence, or even coherent of speech, to express any justification for such outrages...
MOST testmakers conceded that their own cultural backgrounds impose a distinct bias on their questions. Arguing that all U.S. employment and IQ tests reflect the culture of white, middle-class America, Negro Sociologist Adrian Dove, 33, a program analyst for the U.S. Budget Bureau, devised his own quiz. Wryly known as the "Soul Folk Chitlings Test," it is cast with a black, rather than a white, bias. Some of his 30 black imponderables prove extremely difficult for Whitey: 1) Whom did "Stagger Lee" kill (in the famous blues legend)? a) His mother, b) Frankie, c) Johnny, d) His girl friend...
TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Bias and the Media, Part 1," an examination of racism in communications, is the starting point for this series based on the proposition that 'nice' America is indeed racist, North and South, black and white. Singers Harry Belafonte and Lena Home, Writer Lawrence Neal and Psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint discuss the problems...
...other museums make it easy for grad students like Mrs. Janis to borrow works and set up exhibits. And the practice in setting up exhibits is valuable to would-be and will-be curators. In fact it gives graduate education in Harvard's Fine Arts department a distinct bias to producing curators rather than educators...
Unfortunately, the public's answers can be as misleading as the questions. Ashamed to admit racial or religious prejudice, people who answer polls sometimes resort to artful lying. Though 80% tell interviewers that they will vote, only 65% do so. To prevent bias, interviewers ask trip-up questions ("When did you vote last?" "Where are you registered?"), and toss out roughly one-fifth of the respondents on the ground that they are unlikely to vote...