Thursday, December 23, 2021

Is "Latino Lover" a thing?

I was watching "Being the Ricardos" last night, and one of the film's themes was Desi Arnaz' infidelities. It made me wonder if there is any truth to the stereotype of the Latin lover. 

The General Social Survey asked married men if they had ever cheated on their spouse. Here are the percentages (N = 4,243):

Percent of married men who have cheated

Non-Hispanic black  25.2
Black Hispanic  20.0
White Hispanic  16.9
Non-Hispanic white 16.3
Hispanic--other race  15.0
Non-Hispanic--other race  13.9

I calculated percentages for each race because I know it is relevant for infidelity. There is evidence here that black men cheat more than other groups, but rates are not high for Hispanics.




5 comments:

  1. I recall an analysis you did on the white mean scores of bias against blacks and how it related to what percent the state is black. I found a study that corroborated that, but the kicker is it also measured the bias of blacks against whites, and the effect was inverted. The more contact with whites, the less bias was measured. Here is the study. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273311805_Exposure_to_Racial_Out-Groups_and_Implicit_Race_Bias_in_the_United_States

    Also excluding Confederate states did not moderate the effect, and it held on the county level. And they mention that county demographics is a good predictor of inter-racial interactions (ofcourse, but bears mentioning). Study looks at explicit and implicit(IAT).

    ReplyDelete
  2. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    ReplyDelete
  3. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    ReplyDelete
  4. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    ReplyDelete

Are gun owners mentally ill?

  Some anti-gun people think owning a gun is a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. According to General Social Survey data, gun owners ...