Study on college football recruiting and race

[seattlefan]

I came across this which may be of interest:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25559706
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224545.2014.998979#preview
https://twitter.com/37919kj/status/553251919116767232

The full article appears to be behind a paywall since it's an academic paper.


J Soc Psychol. 2015 Jan 6:1-17.

Racial Athletic Stereotype Confirmation in College Football Recruiting.

Thomas G[SUP]1[/SUP], Good JJ, Gross AR.

Abstract

ABSTRACT. The present study tested real-world racial stereotype use in the context of college athletic recruiting. Stereotype confirmation suggests that observers use stereotypes as hypotheses and interpret relevant evidence in a biased way that confirms their stereotypes. Shifting standards suggest that the evaluative standard to which we hold a target changes as a function of their group membership. We examined whether stereotype confirmation and shifting standards effects would be seen in college football coaches during recruiting. College football coaches evaluated a Black or White player on several attributes and made both zero- and non-zero-sum allocations. Results suggested that coaches used the evidence presented to develop biased subjective evaluations of the players based on race while still maintaining equivalent objective evaluations. Coaches also allocated greater overall resources to the Black recruit than the White recruit.

 

[Budmademewizer]

That should be a very interesting read.Too bad its 40$ just for the PDF