On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:48:54 -0500, Rick Froman wrote:
>
>My favorite result from this poll:
>
>In answer to the question, "Do you happen to know the religion
>of each of the following people?"
>
>While fully 2/3 knew that Mitt Romney was a Mormon (and the
>majority of the rest said they didn't know his religion), for Barack Obama,
>28% said Protestant and 10% said Muslim. But the most shocking result
>was the 18% (almost 1 in 5) who said he was Jewish.

Well, he *does* look Jewish if you're referring to Ethiopian Jews.
For background on Ethiopian Jews, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel
For images of Ethiopian Jews, see:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&cr=&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&q=%22ethiopian%20jews%22&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=7CSNUPy0GKPm0gGs24HoDw&biw=1280&bih=806&sei=wCWNULSgAa600QG23oBA

It's harder to make an argument that he is a Kenyan Jew though; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Kenya
And compare the images for Kenyan Jews:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&cr=&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&q=%22kenyan%20jews%22&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=7iWNUMX-N-2F0QHr9YGABQ&biw=1280&bih=806&sei=DCaNUK2FJ4rk0QGl-4CYBQ

Of course, this naturally leads to a particular question:
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/14365/is-obama-circumcised

;-)

-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]



-----Original Message-----

From: Michael Palij [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 8:31 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Michael Palij
Subject: [tips] Racial Attitude of U.S. Voters

This web-based survey is an interesting mix of explicit attitude
processing (i.e., traditional questions about race) and implicit
processing (i.e., the affect
misatribution) although it is not clear in the final AP report how the
results from the implicit processing task was used.  For the AP survey
results, see:
http://surveys.ap.org/data%5CGfK%5CAP_Racial_Attitudes_Topline_09182012.pdf

The Washington Post mentions that equations were developed to identify
which background factors would predict a person's voting for Obama or
Romney but there is minimal info about this.  However, there is a
mention of how many votes Obama is losing because of his race.  It
would be interesting to read a more traditional report instead of what
essentially is a long results section.

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