translated from Spanish: The children think there are more male geniuses, except if they’re black

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World.- A study published by researchers at New York University shows that although schoolchildren in their city associate brilliance with men rather than women, this prejudice is reversed when the comparison is with black people. Moreover, the ethnic group of the little ones has no bearing on this decision.
A study published this week in the Journal of Social Issues discusses how ethnicity affects gender stereotypes. The results suggest that the ethnic group of the little ones themselves does not change these preconceived ideas.
“Children relate brilliance, being ‘very, very clever’, with white men rather than white women, but they don’t show the same association when comparing black men to black women,” New York University researcher Sinc explains and co-author Of the study, Andrei Cimpian.
The team of researchers asked more than 200 children between the ages of 5 and 6 in New York schools to compare their ideas about the intellectual abilities of men and women, black and white. To do this, they showed the small images of eight pairs of adults in everyday places like offices and houses.
Each photograph showed a couple of different sex but of the same race. The researchers told the children that one of the two people in the picture was “very, very intelligent.” Then they were invited to guess who.
The results for white couples replicated what was observed in previous studies. Cimpian is co-author of a well-known work published in 2017 in the journal Science. In it, they showed that girls change their own gender vision when they begin to associate brilliance more with boys.
“We replicated the stereotype of ‘brilliant man’ by asking about white people from our previous finding, but this was reversed with black women and men,” Cimpian says. In that latter case, the children associated brilliance more with them than with them.
Source: Sinc

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