Bias

Racial Stereotypes and Survey Bias

We generally tend to think of racial identifiers as static labels, an attribute we are born with like gender. I am—and have always been—a white male. Moreover, we know that cultural stereotypes around race have a strong influence on how people are perceived. For this reason, studies are often conducted to capture the degree to which racial identification leads to measurable disparities. We use these presumably static labels to report on differences in health, economics, education, and more.