New York Employment Lawyer Blog

A recent article in The New York Times entitled, "In Bias Test, Shades of Gray," dealt with a study that attempted to measure unconscious racial bias among doctors. While there is much debate over the validity of the study, the findings are quite shocking. The study showed that the doctors who were more “biased” actually treated patients of different races more equally.

The findings show that racial discrimination can be subconscious and oftentimes is perpetuated by people in the same class as their victims. While case law shows that the courts agree that an employment discrimination claim is still valid if the victim is in the same class as the perpetrator, this is the first scientific study aiming to prove that fact.