Soccer Looks Different When You Can’t See Who’s Playing | FiveThirtyEight

What happens when you take actual footage of a soccer game and turn It into telemetry and then show people a computer generated version of the data?

Of the 47 sports fans who watched a two-minute clip of the World Cup TV broadcast, 70 percent said that Senegal, whose players were all Black, was “more athletic or quick.” But of 58 others who saw an animation of the same two minutes without knowing which teams they were watching, 62 percent picked Poland, whose players were all white, as the more athletic side.1 The physical advantages that supposedly defined the African team’s style of play disappeared as soon as their skin color did.

What an interesting example of unconscious bias.