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Among many issues: * contrary to the narrator's statement, the two males are not dressed similarly * they speak differently * there is no black female control

And of course, being a TV show, there is no systematic statistical analysis.

Now, TBH even with more rigorous protocol I suspect the conclusions drawn would be similar, but as it stands, this "experiment" is not altogether useful.




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