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It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com)
Black riders have to wait "significantly longer" for their Uber cabs and experience "double" the cancellation rates of white passengers, according to a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study, which also observed a similar pattern among Lyft drivers, claims it has found "significant evidence of racial discrimination" in ride-hailing services based on a pair of experiments in Seattle and Boston. From a report on Time: Researchers pulled data from more than 1,400 field tests conducted using mostly Uber and Lyft, but also traditional taxi services. The findings in Boston and Seattle showed evidence of discrimination that manifested in either longer waits or a higher likelihood for cancellation. In Seattle, African-American UberX users on average waited 5 minutes and 15 seconds for pick-ups -- roughly 30% longer than white riders, who waited 4 minutes on average. Lyft users did not experience a significant difference during the experiment. When the research assistants switched between using white-sounding and African-American-sounding names, they did not find a significant increase in their wait times. But the overall rates at which drivers canceled the ride after it was assigned to them was more than one in 10 for riders with black-sounding names, roughly double than for riders with white-sounding names.
The bit that they are failing to mention is how many of these drivers are minorities themselves. When I was in Seattle for PAX we had one white driver, every other one was black or Arab.
When this study was done for job interviews, the test was always low class black names vs. obvious middle/upper class white names.
Nobody has tested 'LaTrina' vs. 'Harley', just 'LaTrina' vs 'Richard'. Because they know the answers they are looking for.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You don't get out much do you?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Most blacks tend to live in black neighborhoods, many of which are referred to as 'hoods' and not in a positive way. There are probably many less drivers in those areas or that wants to go there, is why there is a delay.
Most drivers don't want to go 15 miles out of their way to a known bad neighborhood at extra expense and risk to pick up someone. Its not racism but reality.
I am white but live in a 'hood' so I do know a little bit about this. No pizza delivery is available to me from any of the major pizza companies either.
> But naming their son "John" is perfectly OK, right?
Yup. This is why off the boat immigrants will give their children nice WASP names. They aren't trying to actively sabotage their children's success.
Actual Africans will probably avoid this kind of nonsense.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> When this study was done for job interviews, the test was always low class black names vs. obvious middle/upper class white names.
Bullshit. They used names like Jamal and Lakisha. Those both are names from the african continent, neither are 'ghetto' mispronunciations of everyday products.
How the hell did you get modded up? Ever been to the African continent? Those aren't African-continent names, those are ghetto names. Names from the African continent are nowhere close to the names they used. Names like Jamal and Lakisha are clearly not the same as Xolani, Busiswe, Tembelihle, Musi, Lindiwe, etc. Those who don't have ethnic names either have English words seen by locals as auspicious (Hope, Precious, Patience, Blessing, Virtue, etc) or have Anglo names (Richard, Elvis, Mike, George, etc).
Names of African-continent descent are easy to spot as they are rooted in some variant of either French or the older Bantu languages. You, and the idiots who voted you up, have obviously never been to Africa. Before you spout off like an expert you should perhaps go vacation there first.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.