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So picking that sort of negative behaviour to test *anything* in There or Second Life already creates a bias that could simply be present in all cases and randomly exhibit at a high percentage in some skin tones.

Seems like the “negative behavior” is a constant for each of the skin tones so why would the response be “random” with significantly different responses to different skin tones? One would think the responses would even out with each skin tone accumulating roughly the same kind of composite response.
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In virtual worlds, the worst thing you can do is force-port, or try to force somebody to teleport with you or make a stranger go somewhere with you.

Why would there even be any “random” difference then in the responses to avatars of different skin tones making the indecent/annoying requests?
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People do not take their racism into virtual worlds

You say that based on what? How do you know whether or not people take their racism into virtual worlds or not? Seriously…
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they aren’t as racist as you imagine, and not especially racist in a virtual world of anonymous avatars

Too funny… To say that people “aren’t as racist as you imagine” acknowledges, by definition, that people are, in fact, “racist.” The strawman quibble, then, is over HOW racist people are. This is like arguing that someone is a little pregnant — i.e. hilariously, ridiculously irrelevant.
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You’re either pregnant or you’re not. So, since we’ve established just how you (Prokofy Neva) have acknowledged that people are racist — just not as racist (i.e. as pregnant… lol) as whatever you’re assuming Jessie believes they are. Exactly how you know how racist Jessie (or the researchers) think people are in virtual worlds and exactly how you know how racist people are, no one knows including you.
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the politically correct *do* take their prejudices with them.

What prejudices are those? And how exactly does that not contradict you initial claim? Simply put, “they aren’t as racist as you imagine” sounds like a “politically correct” way of saying:

“Yes! People are racist in virtual worlds BUT . . . {insert your minimizing rationale for why the racism you acknowledge as being there isn’t *AS* bad or *THAT* bad fully knowing that you are the only person who has tried to quantify the degree of racism, again, as if someone can be a little pregnant vs. real/good-n-pregnant}”

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That said, the evidence I’ve seen suggests that being new in the world, or even being a nonhuman “furry” can lead more often to active discrimination than could real-world race (I have a black male and olive-skinned male avatar, btw).

My students switch race or gender every year, for one week, when we use SL. Women get “hit on,” the men-turned-women discover. Newness seems to lead more often, in 2008 and 2009, to being ignored, not skin tone.

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Nothing is ever random, particularly when it comes to human behavior.

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This post was mentioned on Twitter by socinequalities: Racism in Virtual Worlds http://bit.ly/xzK6x from racismreview.com…

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Before you keep recycling this meme over and over again, you need to dig deeper.

In virtual worlds, the worst thing you can do is force-port, or try to force somebody to teleport with you or make a stranger go somewhere with you. The next worst thing you could do is demand that you do that *and* take a screenshot, adding insult to injury.

So picking that sort of negative behaviour to test *anything* in There or Second Life already creates a bias that could simply be present in all cases and randomly exhibit at a high percentage in some skin tones.

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