LGBT rights in eastern Europe: explaining financial benefits makes a big difference to people’s views – new findings
LGBT rights in eastern Europe: explaining financial benefits makes a big difference to people’s views – new findings
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The title and the actual findings don‘t really line up
Of course
>Our experiment showed, with similar results in each of the three countries, that respondents who had received information about the economic cost of discrimination were about 50% more likely to support measures to safeguard equal employment opportunities for LGBT people. They were also more likely – albeit to a lesser extent – to support equal employment opportunities based on ethnic origin, religious beliefs, nationality, gender and disability.
>At the same time, however, they were no more likely to support LGBT rights in other parts of life.
How come this is a big difference?
>we decided to give a group of people some information about the direct economic costs to their country from discriminating against sexual minorities.
Explaining financial benefits is not the same as avoiding economic costs that pile up, because of discrimination.