Animal Welfare
by race
White 84.1%
Black 1.9%
Asian 2.0%
Another race or multiracial 9.0%
No response 3.0%
84%
White
Americans
Poor
People
Rich
People
Animal Welfare
by gender
Woman/Transwoman 84.4%
Man/Transman 9.3%
Other gender or no response 5.3%
84%
Women
Animal Welfare
by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic 86.4%
Hispanic 6.1%
Don’t Know 4.4%
No response 3.1%
86%
Non-
Hispanic
Pro-White
30%
Pro-Hispanic
70%
21%
Pro-African
American
Pro-White
79%
3%
Pro-Poor
People
Pro-Rich
97%
1
2
3
4
5
6
Hispanic
People
Black
People
White
People
Explicit TEST RESULTS
Descriptive Statistics: Attitudes toward Social Groups (1 = Very Negative, 7 = Very Positive )
Implicit Association TEST RESULTS
/ HARVARD PROJECT Implicit RESULTS
Implicit Biases…
1. Are associations, attitudes, or stereotypes that operate relatively automatically.
2. Arise from shared cultural knowledge, personal experience, and explicit biases.
3. Can be observed by looking at how people behave or measured with tools such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT).
Explicit Biases…
1. Are associations, attitudes, or stereotypes that we know about and claim as our own.
2. Arise from shared cultural knowledge, personal experience, and explicit biases.
3. Can be measured with self-report.
Animal welfare demographics
In the aggregate, participants
showed an implicit preference
for White people over Black
people, Non-Hispanic people
over Hispanic people, and rich
people over poor people.
These results stood in contrast
to Self-reported preferences
for Black people over White
people, Hispanic people over
Non-Hispanic people, and poor
people over rich people.
In others words, we often
claim not to be biased when
in fact we are.
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“Minorities in general and Afro-Americans in
particular are still virtually invisible in all
aspects of organized animal protection.”
~ Society and Animals 13(2):153-162
inclusion = LIFESAVING
