5 Feet of Fury

Fear of a Black Hand?

Thanks to the reader who sent this in:

We investigate the impact of seller race in a field experiment involving baseball card auctions on eBay. Photographs showed the cards held by either a dark-skinned/African-American hand or a light-skinned/Caucasian hand.

Cards held by African-American sellers sold for approximately 20% ($0.90) less than cards held by Caucasian sellers, and the race effect was more pronounced in sales of minority player cards. 

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I don’t know what that all “means” or “proves” but it did make me think of this: