There is large ideological asymmetry in the Gold Medal Olympians people choose to tweet about:
- Everyone posts a lot about women, liberals especially so
- There are huge differences in tweets about Olympians by race
- Everyone posts a lot Black women, liberals especially so
Tweeting about women and Black women especially is disproportionate for all groups, but especially so for the most liberal. The extremes are about equally off when it comes to race in general.
But how 'off' people are is hard to qualify, since people medal for different things.
So to get to whether there was ideological bias, the authors who provided this data conducted some other experiments, like one in which people could promote someone to represent a disadvantaged group where one of the three options was Black.
Conservatives weren't biased here.
All the results including those from yet another experiment were convergent, but caveat: some results had nonsignificant or marginal interactions, but the authors didn't really focus on that.
The motive for the liberal-conservative difference seems to be a more-liberal desire to promote underperforming groups.
Anyway, if you want to read the study, it's here: pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…
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