[ATTW-L] racial bias in responding to email requests

[Josephine Walwema]

Grrrr!



Josie
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*JOSEPHINE WALWEMA* PhD.

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On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 1:50 PM Dragga, Sam <Sam.Dragga at ttu.edu> wrote:

> A new study of racial bias in responding to email requests could generate
> a productive classroom conversation about anti-racist and social justice
> practices in technical communication.
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> The research article was published in the Proceedings of the National
> Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and is available at
> https://www.pnas.org/content/118/52/e2110347118.
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> Here is a portion of the abstract:
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> We conducted an audit study on the general public—sending correspondence
> to 250,000 citizens randomly drawn from public voter registration lists.
> Our within-subjects experimental design tested the public’s responsiveness
> to electronically delivered requests to volunteer their time to help with
> completing a simple task—taking a survey. We randomized whether the request
> came from either an ostensibly Black or an ostensibly White sender. We
> provide evidence that in electronic interactions, on average, the public is
> less likely to respond to emails from people they believe to be Black
> (rather than White).  . . . Our results provide a window into the
> discrimination that Black people in the United States face in day-to-day
> interactions with their fellow citizens.
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> Sam
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> Sam Dragga
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> Professor Emeritus
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> Texas Tech University
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> sam.dragga at ttu.edu
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> 1-806-543-6099
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