{"id":18071,"date":"2014-11-02T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=18071"},"modified":"2014-11-01T17:11:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T21:11:25","slug":"surprising-result-in-canadian-muslim-profiling-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/11\/02\/surprising-result-in-canadian-muslim-profiling-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising result in Canadian Muslim profiling experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are you afraid of a hat? Should you be? Image by Nafis Kamal<\/a> of old Bangladeshi man with a grey beard, wearing a white Muslim cap. Creative Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/strong>OK, the video shared below may not represent serious social science. I would add the tag line “Hey kids, don’t try this at home.” All that aside, it represents an interesting, if flawed, experiment.<\/p>\n

As most already know,\u00a0Canadians were recently shaken by \u00a0two separate, deadly incidents<\/a> that were carried out by so-called “self radicalized” Canadians. In response, a York University student tried his own experiment with a scenario and video titled “Canadians React to Ottawa Shooting Racism”.<\/p>\n

As reported by the CBC<\/a>,\u00a0Omar Albach set out to test “…if people feel safe to be around Muslims or people who look like Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n

See for yourself what happened<\/p>\n