Blacks Make Whites Think Better

2 June 2004

Being exposed to blacks is good for the white mind, says a group of psychologists.

The study took groups of three White students with similar views on one of two issues

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  1. Claire June 2, 2004 at 1:51 pm | | Reply

    It’d be interesting if they did the same study, only with Black students.

    Would they get the same kind of results, I wonder? In all honesty, I don’t expect so. And that’s a cultural observation, not a racial one.

  2. Laura June 2, 2004 at 2:17 pm | | Reply

    All of the collaborators argued along carefully constructive guidelines? Then what’s the mechanism for the difference between response to black or white collaberators?

  3. Richard Nieporent June 2, 2004 at 11:23 pm | | Reply

    Admittedly, I was not able to read the actual study. I couldn

  4. Meezer June 4, 2004 at 2:02 pm | | Reply

    Added to the points above, how does the ‘novelty’ of an idea relate to it’s soundness as rational thought? Sorting everyone in the country, east to west, alphbetically by last name, is a novel idea but is it something to actually waste time thinking about?

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