True or False: Whites Automatically Get Advantages Blacks Don't Get in America (lawyer, Simpson)
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So is the myth of "The White Advantage" true or not?
The fact that you used the word "myth" suggests that you are trying to bias the question. You could have simply asked "Do you believe there is a 'White Advantage' in the US?"
Because you used the term myth suggests that you don't believe there is and want to try and impute the idea that it is a myth in respondents.
It is what pollsters call a question with a "leading opinion."
And the few existing programs whose intent is to level the playing field for historically disadvantaged minorities haven't even come close to changing that.
So if you're a white person who hasn't gotten ahead, don't blame the black man who you think got hired ahead of you (or, for that matter, the one in the White House) -- blame yourself. You really have no excuse.
The fact that you used the word "myth" suggests that you are trying to bias the question. You could have simply asked "Do you believe there is a 'White Advantage' in the US.
Because you used the term myth suggests that you don't believe there is and want to try and impute the idea that it is a myth in respondents.
It is what pollsters call a question with a "leading opinion."
Yep, it's a tactic straight out of the Karl Rove playbook.
Yep, it's a tactic straight out of the Roger Ailes playbook.
Not just Roger Ailes. It is the way any good trial lawyer should ask cross.
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