While there have been many movements against racism and people are, in general, becoming more racially tolerant, there are still
gaps between racial groups.
Though, I have always said we are moving towards a society where the real divisions are
not between racial groups but between the rich and the poor..
Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap
between racial groups seen at the start of the study.
«I actually wanted insight into the school's racial achievement gap,» he says, «and thought a survey on how the students perceived the school — academics, teachers, extracurriculars, safety, and social morale — would reveal
differences between racial groups.»
«If you are an egalitarian person, who is concerned about the division of
resources between racial groups, the mention of scarcity might actually make you want to give more to protect racial minority group members,» Krosch said.
Stress and coping researchers should examine carefully the psychometric properties of study measures within and
between racial groups prior to conducting tests of between - group differences.