Speciecism is also a thing...

Latoya Tangelo exactly, the very beginning of this video and occasionally throughout where he sounded accusational, made me get slightly infuriated as I know that I am biased, but I don’t need to get a finger pointed at me for it, it’s just human nature and I understand that, so maybe in the future, they could talk to the audience as the smart people they are and not as little children

+Ima Unicorn They make these videos for an audience that is the vast majority 12-17. If you look at youtube stats, females aged 12-17 are the demographic on youtube most, so the tone of this video seems appropriate given this info. they are not intentionally being condescending to YOU.

Good response

I try not to let my biases fuel hateness in me, but I can't deny that they do, doesn't matter how hard I try, they still do.

The problem with this kind of "research" is that it could be used as an excuse for racism.

At the end of the day, I think it is important for people to acknowledge that no matter how much we try, we will always fall short of perfection. By accepting that we are flawed and yet still striving to be as good a person as possible, we open ourselves to the possibilities and interpretations others may present to us. We free ourselves from our own pride and are able to better understand the lives of those around us. No matter how hard I fight against it, I know that I will fall short of perfection, I know that I will act unfairly at times, even if at the time I think I am doing the right thing. But I try not to let that stop me from striving to that goal. In response to Maria F, I think that all people are prejudice in some way or another, even if we fight to be exactly the opposite. I feel that it is because we know that we are flawed that we should show compassion to others that will also make mistakes, knowing that they too are flawed. That being said, I think that everyone should strive for love, compassion, unity and peace, even if we know that we will make mistakes along the way.

Maria F What?

Quick Fix well said! 👌🏾

they should try it again and bigger. It also feels too perfect.

King Keegster They should also do a listening without any picture

+jjspot Yea, definitely! Have a control group.

It's an experiment based on a larger study

what if the person was a murder that kills babies

Murderer*

What about a rapist or Hitler

Too bad liberals don't agree

@@davetyler6520 Still crying Trumptard?

Right

I don't think she was lying. It seemed more like she was realising that it was a trick to see if she was biased, and she knew that she didn't know if she would feel differently - and actually questioned if that was the point. She looked more confused than trying to dodge a question. Knowing it's a test does make you question yourself, and that does make you confused if you don't do it often.

SSJKenpachiZaraki I see what your saying the way she answered the question with a slight pause and the long drawn out "noooooo" may seem like she was confused, but I don't think she was confused at all. It seems like she was thinking of a way to dodge the question because she didn't want to sit and take the time to think about an honest answer. That why I say she was lying.

Sandy, The white fragility concept seems relevant to this discussion...

They wouldn't do it because it would reveal too much female nature

They chose women because women are encouraged to be feminine and emotional and therefore are more likely to be emotional. They could've chosen men too but it was one or the other to control a variable

Ha! Men don't have empathy for women. Only for males like themselves.

@@cillyhoney1892 lol sure buddy. Nice dichotomy you've got going on there. Says a lot more about you than about men.

Of course it doesn't hold true to everybody but that's not the point of the video. It's to create awareness that we may be unintentionally closing ourselves off from those who think or who are different from us. The video was made to encourage us to listen and practice empathy more with not only the people we relate to but ALL people.

Katie Tuck Thank you Katie. Its honestly exasperating reading some of these comments. People focusing on the trees while missing the forest. I don't know, maybe some people think the presenter is a real scientist presenting his own clinical research. Just like Dr House is a real doctor.

There's actually been plenty of research and experiments conducted on subconscious biases. All the ones I've seen have yielded similar results.

Aha, but you only THINK you’re unbiased (sarcasm)

+Katie Tuck There's only so much empathy a person can give though. Honestly it has less to do with race (this was the variable this video focused on) and more to do with if her story something you can relate with. She's not exactly telling her story in a captivating way so people could fast forward to get through the pauses. Also if someone lost a family member recently they're probably more likely to listen closer because they're thinking of their own family, not the storytellers. The storyteller is a stranger and that alone is enough to make people care less because it's not personal. This whole "unconscious bias" thing is retarded. We don't need to care about everyone else's lives, and it would be ridiculous to even try. Unconscious bias means it's something you're not even AWARE you're doing, so how would you even attempt to fix that which you don't know exists? Bias can only be addressed when it's conscious.

NymphetaminexXxGrrrl i totallyshare the same feelings

I agree, but then again I may be wrong

NymphetaminexXxGrrrl my family is richer than most people in my area and people tend to get the impression that I'm stuck up just because I have nice things. What they don't know is that I've struggled with anxiety my entire life. So people think I'm judging them (because I guess they think that I think I'm better) but I'm really not and I actually feel like they're judging me.

Well i'm sorry that i was one of those people.. I do my best to admit when im wrong and think about my behaviours, i guess there's often judgment on both sides.. the rich sometimes look down on the poor, and the poor often having a mistrust or anger towards the rich or even middle class. There was a time when i was taken from a literal run down crack shack and placed in a nice fancy home, it didn't last long but for the time i was there i felt really uncomfortable about my surroundings and people perceiving me as being part of such a world. These days if i feel those thoughts creeping in i acknowledge them and then tell myself i am suffering some form of cognitive distortion and that my instincts are wrong. I do my best to live truly judgment free meaning i really strive not to make assumptions about anyone even those who "appear" to have it all. because i don't know them, or their story.

NymphetaminexXxGrrrl I wish more people were like you. It's so refreshing to see someone who is trying to not judge. There are so few people like that.

Please do get a bigger sample size and take into account the multitude of variables besides gender and skin colour aswell though. It would add to the point your trying to make because now all you showed is that humans can be biased which is true and nobody can really deny it. And I don't care about my bias because it does not fuel hatefulness.

Well, at least you know yourself!

That's me

wait, that would just show the subject wasn't feeling empathy at all, empathy is connecting a similar feeling you have,had towards the other person feelings so that you can help/understand each other.

No, the subject coud very well be empathizing alot but just doesn't feel like listening to alot of the type for any number of reasons...

Exactly...I consider myself highly empathetic and find myself avoiding people relay painful details of their personal life.

slarz1108 you are actually having a good point though, it is possible that people fast forward more or less because of personal experiences. That's why during an actual study like this you need to use a large amount of people (like 200 or something). Because of this, personal experiences will have less influence on the test results This video just redid the experiment to be able to show others clearly

Except he talked to them later and saw that except for one of them, apparently that wasn't the case.

Maybe those black women were more honest about their bias because they didn't have to worry about being called a racist.

@@rohansonkusare7025 No. Black people can be racist and colorist, too.

Your experiences sound really valuable, being the middle of so many common identities usually treated as binary (fellow bi here, I know how that feels). I think almost everyone has unconscious bias for multiple characteristics of race, (dis)ability, gender, sexuality, class, age, body size, country of origin/accent etc. because we've all grown up in a society that has those biases deeply ingrained to its core and very very few people are able to avoid taking those on from a very young age even if their parents are amazing at educating about them all (because of so many other ways we absorb them from society eg. media, extended family, friends, the public when out and about etc; and most parents/role models aren't expert at them all).

You're a monster

me too!! that's what I was thinking while watching

I agree

I definitely might of done the same. She's not in the room I'm not cutting her off from unloading her pain. I just think that once I heard that she's was talking about losing her Grandmother to Cancer and how she felt about her Grandmother I'd think I had a good idea what she was feeling. That's why I think adding the speed element to this throws the whole thing off. If you just told people to listen and then quizzed or had them explain it with their own words after you'd get a better idea of who payed more attention and thought about what was said.

I don't have much patience either, but that's because of crippling ADHD not a lack of empathy. If the person was in front of me I'd engage and listen to them. There's just really no use in getting emotional over a story. I keep that emotional juice for the things I actually have influence on.

Zac Winter lol same

Same. I'm Indian and I felt like if they had a third group that was neither white or black, they would have had a different reaction. Also would have been interesting with men and women.

Luján Bernal if latino is going to be included, might as well add Asian

I would have reacted the same to a white person and a Latina person just because I can't distinguish between white and Latina, I'm just saying, not everyone can tell the difference.

I think it depends on the race the race they identify with more, and the race they are mostly surrounded with (if you're mixed but mostly raized among blacks, you look more black, you identify more as black, you'll have more empathy for blacks)

there was a black girl who was clearly biracial

Part Korean part Arab and Im fully connected to both sides of my family? I don’t lean to one side more it’s equal to me.

I’m Italian and Mexican but I definitely look more white.

As an half Canadian Vietnamese individual I was raised in an urban environment. I attended a school in a catholic district and my family shared in friendships that had ties to multiple parts of the world. I had connections with individuals of African, Indian, Asian, Mexican, and European descent so I honestly don’t know how I’d react. To be honest I cherish all the people in my life, they’ve always been their for me through thick and thin. While I do personally correlate this video to racial belonging, bias, and general diligence to the original task assigned I can make a conclusion that their were, realistically too many variables to count. However, this video really was a fantastic eye opener and spoke towards the dynamics of our society and (while the results were dulled due to uncontrolled variables) showed us a new front to empathy.

But that would give away the "trick" of the experiment for that person.

yeah, maybe the people who skipped forward just had ADHD lol, there wasn't enough people to really draw a conclusion

Purple * good question🤔 maybe the channel and its videos are meant to be a treat for the soul ;) have a nice day😄

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mt chen ?😂

I think it is called soul pancake cuz it take a vat of your soul and flattens it so you understand something.....

I agree

If you have enough people in the study and different pictures it would be enough to draw the conclusion that one person is less interested in hearing about all the details in the story if it has a different skin color. It would be reasonable to assume this is because of lesser empathy, especially since a lot of other studies have shown the same. I'm interested to hear if you have any specific variables in mind?

My view from a previous comment: the theory i understand and agree with in some sense, but the focus on "race"(as american calls it) i feel less credible. of course it can occur and I'm not against that notion but the way it does in america feels very different than from where I'm from. I think it's an aspect one should have in mind while making this study and i feel that a better representation of this theory should've involved nationality or western relatability instead, sens "race" seems more dependent on geographic and a clear divided "racial"-structure, like that in the US to "work". For example I'm "mixed-race"(as you call it), my fathers Sudanese and my mother is Swedish, My skin color is somewhere in-between my parents, but as the Swedish "racial"-structure/framework is different from yours, I've never fully been seen as "black" nor "white" just another color on the spectrum in my home town. I've never felt as a part of any group based my color here in Sweden (though I've been denied for it), but i do identify as a swede. therefor my 'group' in this sens is my nationality(but even that can be one-sided based on appearance). But if i where born and raised in the US i'd be categorized as "black" right? and therefore, as Nationality is relevant to time, i feel this aspect of what you call "race" is relevant to not only time but place as well. but even nationality feels a bit gray to me, remember fukushima? The western world grieved. if we apply this theory here, then "race" has no aspect and nither does nationality, instead it's the western way of life that is relatable and thus considered a 'group' in opposition to the floodings in Indonesia. the way you present this theory is like saying that it WILL occur, when the reality is that it CAN occur based on the situation/time/place/people. It's not a law that's always in place, its based on what we can relate to on that exact time/place and so on. So in short i don't like your video because i feel that it has flaws.

furthermore, as seen in your comment, this video gives the view that skin color and empathy is related in ways they are not. it's not the skin color per say that makes the "empathy gap" imo but the relatability. and therefore the direct correlation between the two drops too many variables to draw anything conclusive. These 'groups' are relative and cant be based on just "race", nationality or religion as the video claims.

Nami chan, couldn't have said it better myself as a mixed-race third culture person.

Right. Like he made sure they answered a certain way with the questions he asked.

lol I thought about that too but it might've made them too defensive. They were in a vulnerable space after showing so much emotion so even telling them about the real test was pretty sensitive already.

Hannah Cantrell You are biased.

I think you have that backwards. Sympathy means that you are feeling their pain too. Empathy is understanding that they have pain.

You have to see that it's not a choice though. I think you do understand that. It's just the way our brains work. Psychology and sociology teach us about the way groups work and it makes sense we would want to feel empathy in order to take care of our own. Doesn't mean we can't do that for people of other "groups" , but honestly I think that's just part of how humans/society has taken shape.

Which one?

Black girl in photo with curls. It should be the same pic as my profile pic lol

I bet you anything you still have biases; maybe unconscious ones, and maybe not as big as some people's, but they're there - they don't need to be noticable to you, to be active and affect your actions/thoughts and cause (unintentional) harm to others (but still harm). The example of many white people feeling more damage when called out for racism, than they feel the damage from the racism has done, demonstrates that point (the concept of "white fragility", though fragility can apply to any category). They aren't actively racist so they believe they're good on that front, and therefore that anyone calling them out for racism, must be lying and attacking them, because they haven't been aware of the biases they still have that result in racist comments/choices/actions.

Excie sorry

Why?

If you want to make the world a better place take some words of wisdom and read more DONT COMMENT THAT YOUR FIRST AHHH :)

Sorry... I don't usually do that.

Excie hahaha it’s ok😂