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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lady or man-[b] children at that age don’t see in color,[/b] unless that is something you are teaching your 3yr old..and all black children in public schools are not low-income. Put your energy into what the schools have to offer your child, not what color the kids are. Your kid would be just fine, as for you, I don’t know.[/quote]

This is categorically, scientifically, untrue. [/quote]

NP: Nope, it's very true.

[b]Btw, when you invoke science you should always be prepared to offer relevant references in top-quality journals. Please go ahead[/b].[/quote]

NP.  No, the onus is on the person who first made the claim to back it up with data.

Nonetheless, I'll go ahead--the fact that children in fact do "see in color" at an early age is pretty well-established, by my read (I have a Ph.D., but in a related area).  For example, I remember that the following research was cited in the book Nurture Shock.  It basically says that not only can young infants differentiate between races, but they seem to prefer the faces of adults that belong to their own race.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566511/

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PP again.  The upside is that apparently this preference for their own race is learned, not innate.  By extension, it seems that if you would want your white kid to [u]not[/u] automatically have a preference for other white kids, you'd send them to a school that is diverse from a young age.  I don't have time to look that up right now, but that would be an interesting study, if it hasn't already been done (e.g., measuring ingroup racial preference in young white kids who attend predominantly same-race vs. racially diverse day cares/schools).[/quote]

This is too funny to be true.

You use a paper that actually supports the first PP (children at that age don't see color unless you teach them) while you said he was scientifically wrong.

And then you use the same paper to claim "by extension" something else for which you provide no direct evidence.

Bye PhD genius :-)[/quote]

Most social science research is crap - unless it has been replicated, don't believe it. But common sense and observation makes clear that 3 year old are generally happy to play together and innocent and don't judge each other based on race. I am sure they have notions of race, but I agree with the spirit of the original comment. [/quote]

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