Josh Correll quotes from Through the Wormhole

  So, what we want to look at is, in that situation, where there's not good, clear information, where people have to respond quickly, do they use race to inform their decisions?

  It's worth noting that, in this game, people are pretty good.  They don't make a ton of mistakes—ten, fifteen percent of the time they make a mistake.  But when we look at those mistakes, we see racial bias in the errors.  So they're faster to shoot the armed target if he's black rather than than white.  When the target's got a cell phone, they're much more likely to make that decision, to shoot an innocent target, when he's black rather than white.

Morgan Freeman

  Does this mean that white Americans are inherently bigoted?  An utterly shocking trend with Josh's black participants suggests that it's much more complicated than that.

  We see that black participants show the same anti-black bias that white participants do.  Actually, when we test to see if there's a difference in the two groups, white participants versus black participants, they're not statistically different from each other.  So, we think this represents an awareness of a cultural stereotype, not that our participants believe, necessarily, that black men are more dangerous than white men.