In your opinion, is it difficult to accurately measure prejudice? Why or why not?

Question

I would like to know if a person can actualy measure prejudice accurately.

Answer 1

We are all steeped in prejudice as a result of the culture we were born and raised into. I've seen tests of prejudice, scenarios staged to study individual response, so yes you can measure it, but to be scientific about it, you'll need a good base of comparison.

Answer 2

Tough one. But, here is my take. Sociologist's have used tools to measure prejudice for many, many years. People would be given different situations based on different ethnic groups. It was discovered that people would actually act upon certain situations differently than what they wrote in response during the written test. Why? Because people are not naieve when it comes to taking these kinds of tests. They know how to answer the questions so that they appear unbiased. This is the reason why I believe it would difficult to measure prejudice accurately.

Answer 3

Everyone is prejudice in one way or another. Be it Race, Music, Country of orgin, Language, ect. Some learn to be accepting, others show it in their daily lives. Just observe people, you will know then.

Answer 4

These days there is so much reverse descrimination that it's hard to tell if it's really prejudice or just somebodys pity party.

Today the most beat up individuals in our society are white males under the age of 65.

We are now last on societys totem pole. My how times have changed.

Answer 5

difficult to measure as it is a subjective item that can only be talked about by feelings.

However, all things can be measured just a matter of coming up with a scale that everyone agrees (ie. the hard part)