Poll: A Social Experiment?

In My Humble Opinion
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But men lead in all ethnicities. Why would people think of men first?

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Except Asian. And the difference between black male and female is quite a big larger than the other categories.

eta - quoted before the edit.

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That’s not entirely true. Asian males were less popular than asian females. Maybe society doesn’t much care for Asian males for aesthetic or other reasons? In porn, you are much more likely to see a black guy than an Asian guy.

And why do you suppose black females are so under-represented?

on edit: I think we can forego the spoiler boxes now that we’re safely on the second page. Feel free to discuss in the clear. Oh, and thanks to everyone who participated!

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Right I see that now. But I don’t think black celebrities are much ahead of white ones.

Maybe a stat’s test to see if it’s a significant difference

Nice idea to think about-what is your reasoning?

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  1. Bill Cosby
  2. Britney Spears
  3. Jennifer Lopez
  4. Lucy Liu

Joe

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  1. Erykah Badu
  2. Kirsten Dunst
  3. Salma Hayek
  4. Zhang Ziyi
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I based my answers on celebrities I like or admire, if we’re explaining our choices. Not that I don’t have girl crushes, but the men came to mind first.

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In my defense, he’s in my head because I’m currently attempting to write a paper for class on the Maxwell-Faraday theorem, and we all know that Faraday is infinitely cooler than Maxwell (that nerd).

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  1. Name a black celebrity
    Eddie Murphy
  2. Name a white celebrity
    Steve Martin
  3. Name a hispanic celebrity
    Salma Hayek
  4. Name an Asian celebrity
    Margaret Cho
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I’ll post without having read any other replies:

  1. Name a black celebrity Bill Cosby
  2. Name a white celebrity Bob Hope :rolleyes: (sorry - it’s the first thing that popped into my head…)
  3. Name a hispanic celebrity Salma Hayek
  4. Name an Asian celebrity George Pataki

So I guess we can infer that I’m old, if nothing else…

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  1. Bill Cosby
  2. Richard Petty
  3. Freddie Prinze
  4. Bruce Lee
    <<Edited to add: Oops. I did not read all of the responses and did not realize that the poll was over. Apologies!>>
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Ah, do you mean George Takei?

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I don’t see how this sordid little poll demonstrates any of the points that the OP wishes to make.

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Sorry to have wasted your time, then.

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Not reading any previous responses:

  1. Denzel Washington
  2. Tom Cruise
  3. George Lopez
  4. Jet Li
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In the US Asian’s represent the smallest population of these 4 groups. In at least 2 obvious ways this may confound your results. Besides that they are culturally and historically different from the other 3.

Again what was your reasoning for this hypothesis?
The experiment was a test of correlation between race and gender in celebrities. My hypothesis was that male black celebrities are overrepresented

Over represented in what way?

What correlation? How about some tests?

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  1. Denzel Washington
  2. Tom Hanks
  3. Jennifer Lopez
  4. Jet Li
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This supports the conventional wisdom of Hollywood that male stars are bigger, and female stars should be paid less because they cannot carry a picture alone like a man can.

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  1. Halle Berry
  2. Drew Barrymore
  3. Jessica Alba
  4. Lucy Liu
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1)James Brown
2)Hank Williams
3)Gloria Estefan
4)Jet Li