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Renaisauce
February 8, 2008 by Renaisauce, 1 year 39 weeks ago
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While I fully agree that racial biases are a bad thing, I'm looking through these results and seeing plenty of their own biases. I'm especially concerned about the negative portrayals of apes in this paper. Aren't gorillas and chimpanzees supposed to be peaceful animals? Didn't anyone see Gorillas in the Mist? Second, I'm concerned that their visual cue test had a flaw. Gorillas happen to have physically darker faces. Did they try the white people with albino monkeys? That might help. Lastly, executions are more likely given in "brutal" crimes because that's what it takes to get an execution. I don't think apes have anything to do with that. Of the crimes, was there a connection between all the executions? In summary, they may have jumped the gun a little.