Exposure to historical facts shifts focus-group opposition to reparations.

Evidence

At the beginning of the focus group process, we asked participants to rank their attitude toward reparations on a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 being fully in support and 10 being completely opposed. We asked them to rank their attitude again at the end of the four-day process. Initially the participants’ attitudes were spread throughout the scale, but after engaging in the various discussions, exercises, and readings, they all shifted to neutral or in favor of reparations. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 497

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is this self-selected or representative evidence? Small, non-random focus group claiming universal attitude shift is exactly the kind of methodological challenge an opposing brief would press.
• XREF: connects to: Reparations became realistic to Brown only after concrete historical precedent emerged. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 23; Framed messaging can shift initial opposition to reparations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 51