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People in the News

Saturday, August 2, 2025

People in the News

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Survey shows most Whites have a bias against Blacks

Photo of protester's sign Sunday at the #BlackLivesMatter march in Rochester by Rose Colored Photo via Flickr
Photo of protester’s sign Sunday at the #BlackLivesMatter march in Rochester by Rose Colored Photo via Flickr

Most white Americans demonstrate bias against blacks, even if they’re not aware of or able to control it. It’s a surprisingly little-discussed factor in the anguishing debates over race and law enforcement that followed the shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers. Such implicit biases — which, if they were to influence split-second law enforcement decisions, could have life or death consequences — are measured by psychological tests, most prominently the computerized Implicit Association Test, which has been taken by over two million people online at the website Project Implicit.

Based on this data, it appears that whites in some states may exhibit higher levels of implicit bias than those in other states. The following map, courtesy of Project Implicit, shows the states with the highest level of implicit bias (high number, red) and lowest level of implicit bias (low number, blue). Gray represents states with a middle amount of implicit bias; Michigan is the median state. Overall, the map reflects the scores of 1.51 million individuals, ranging from a high of 99,660 test takers from California to a low of 1,722 test takers from Hawaii.

See the graph and read the full story here.