Sentences with phrase «diversity in skin tone»
«We found there is little diversity in skin tone in these textbooks,» said the study's lead author Patricia Louie, who began the research at UBC and is now a PhD student at U of T. «Proportional to the population, race is represented fairly accurately, but this diversity is undermined by the fact that the images mostly depict light skin tones.»
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Dr Walid Magdy, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, who led the research, said: «The introduction of skin tone choices for emojis has been a success in representing diversity and their extensive use shows that they meet a real demand from users.»
UBC sociology professor and study co-author Rima Wilkes said the findings highlight a need to show greater diversity of skin tones in teaching tools used by medical schools.
More than 70 per cent of the individuals depicted in Clinically and 88 per cent in Gray's had light skin tones, while Atlas featured almost no skin tone diversity (99 per cent light skin tones).
Furthermore, assessing the pigmentation diversity patterns of a local region in India led us to examine how strict marriage practices and multi-layered endogamy contribute to the mosaic of skin tones.
On the level of Countries, Government and politics, such an education shall help understanding each other better, building dialogs and bridges, and gradually evolving towards the concept of unity in diversity, unity without borders, where differences in language, religion, culture, skin - tone or sex would not cast any shadow on our profound and wholly human identity.