Re:Racist hosts, not hotels, are the greatest threat to Airb...
by IanDrake on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:15AM
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>Did you read the article?...
Proof: out of 6,000+ availability request made (without checking actual availability which is known, but sending a request anyway) 50% of "white sounding names" were accepted, while only 42% of "black sounding names" where accepted.
That's like 8%!!! That means people are racist!
Or it means that the randomness of actually available houses was skewed where "black sounding names" were assigned more unavailable houses.
I wonder how many times they tried this experiment to get the result they were looking for.
Proof: out of 6,000+ availability request made (without checking actual availability which is known, but sending a request anyway) 50% of "white sounding names" were accepted, while only 42% of "black sounding names" where accepted.
That's like 8%!!! That means people are racist!
Or it means that the randomness of actually available houses was skewed where "black sounding names" were assigned more unavailable houses.
I wonder how many times they tried this experiment to get the result they were looking for.