Maybe, but I'm skeptical. The data often point in both directions, and the literature often fails to look at obvious alternative explanations (prejudice is the

Maybe, but I'm skeptical. The data often point in both directions, and the literature often fails to look at obvious alternative explanations (prejudice is the null hypothesis). Besides, the field of sociology is politically homogeneous; I don't know how much their political ideologues contribute to confirmation bias, but I suspect the literature would look different if this weren't the case.