To investigate whether perceived discrimination had any factual basis, participants were asked to play two dictator games.
This suggests that reports of discrimination are not fiction but fact
I think it's the condescending and smarmy way that they presented this part of their experiment.
They framed it where if their stupid construct didn't detect measurable interpersonal bias, that all the bitching about gross rights violations was misinformation.
Yeah you've got a good point here and it shows how bias can find its way in. You're right, not finding measurable interpersonal bias wouldn't prove the null, it would simply fail to prove the alternative in that experiment, they should know better and phrase it that way. That they didn't is revealing
I agree with your concerns there too, the authors are far from perfect in that regard, but still maintain that this is rather useful and interesting data. They had to begrudgingly admit we are right on this. The fact that even through their bias and awful recommendations this shows we are right is itself interesting.
I think it's the condescending and smarmy way that they presented this part of their experiment.
They framed it where if their stupid construct didn't detect measurable interpersonal bias, that all the bitching about gross rights violations was misinformation.
Yeah you've got a good point here and it shows how bias can find its way in. You're right, not finding measurable interpersonal bias wouldn't prove the null, it would simply fail to prove the alternative in that experiment, they should know better and phrase it that way. That they didn't is revealing
I agree with your concerns there too, the authors are far from perfect in that regard, but still maintain that this is rather useful and interesting data. They had to begrudgingly admit we are right on this. The fact that even through their bias and awful recommendations this shows we are right is itself interesting.