Posted on 12/11/2015 4:45:25 AM PST by markomalley
Race influences how people are treated in subtle – and not-so-subtle – ways. African-Americans are not only more likely to be pulled over by the police, arrested for marijuana use, and incarcerated than whites are. Past studies have shown that African-Americans are also charged more when buying cars, receive fewer letters from their state legislators, and get less extensive medical care.
Now researchers have shown that racial biases also extend to selling things on eBay. In a study published in October by the RAND Journal of Economics, Ian Ayres and Christine Jolls of Yale Law School and Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard looked at how the race of the seller affected 394 auctions of baseball cards on eBay.
Some of the postings were accompanied by a photo of the card held by a light-skinned hand, and some with the card held by a dark-skinned hand, as in the photos above. The study shows that the cards held by an African-American hand sold for around 20 percent less than the cards held by Caucasian sellers.
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eBay is racist.
Someone needs to send this article to the folks who hired Samuel Jackson to be their spokesman.
I hardly bother selling on Ebay much any more. Too many deadbeats and stupid people.
This morning I bought a scale model K5 blazer classic kit though.
I don’t really use people in my ads. More trouble than it’s worth.
There was this one exception years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=humlGWYgjhQ
The fuel crunch came and everyone who was interested of course was on the other side of the country.
Now researchers have shown that biases also extend to selling things on eBay. Harvard looked at how the thuggery of the seller affected auctions of thug cards on eBay. Some of the postings were accompanied by a photo of the card held by a thug-tattooed hand, and some with the card held by a non- thug-tattooed hand. The study shows that the cards held by a thug-tattooed hand sold for around 20 percent less than the cards held by non-thug sellers.
And the likelihood of the results of that "study" being actually true would be what?
Pretty close to zero?
It’s a two-fer-—more waste of taxpayer money, creating nonsensical “jobs” to conduct nonsensical “surveys”, with pre-determined results and data which is pre-formed to support the pre-determined result.
Apparently nobody is the ebayverse wants to buy anything that a black man touched.
And even if it were true, so what? Blacks are always carrying about “Buy Black”, ie touting that blacks should do business with black-run, owned, and/or operated businesses whenever possible, why shouldn’t others have the right to do the same, if they feel like it?
IF things are this bad perhaps this minority would be better elsewhere.
We could help by bettering Norway’s offer by 10X or more.
Amazing.
Our new mantra has to be “so what”......We have to stop engaging these idiotic arguments as tho’ they have some merit.
These people have way too much time on their hands.
Who paid for this waste of time and money? Probably us, the taxpayers.
Perceived sleights, manufactured outrage, first-world problems.
Maybe the lesson is that if you want to sell the product, don’t show your hand.
“The study shows that the cards held by an African-American hand sold for around 20 percent less than the cards held by Caucasian sellers.”
The idiots should list their items as “Buy It Now” instead of auctioning off their stuff where if they don’t use good enough grammar and info in their listings’ titles, potential bidders tend not to find these items using intelligent search terms.
Proof Hussein is NOT BLACK!
If he were actually an American and black, this would have been Day 1 priority.
Cannabis was criminalized mostly to re enslave colored peoples.
Harry Anslinger https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
It's the problem of a lot of people have consumed cannabis and know Harry's "Reefer Madness" demonization to be utter equine excrement.
But hey, the nation swallowed that load, they'll swallow the PC load too.
Cool, so all anyone needs to do to boost bidding is have whiteness associated with it.
Hey, why stop there: hire a cute white chick in a thong to pose with your old power tools or dated computer and get rich!
One reason why I advise kids NOT to get tattoos (esp visible ones) every chance I get. Most people look at that and make negative inferences about your character, judgement and reliability. Ditto for non-ear piercings.
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