Judging individuals based on their accent can lead to biased perceptions of their intelligence, friendliness, and trustworthiness.

"Based only on their accent, lower-working-class people were judged to be on average 14% less intelligent, 4% less friendly and 5% less trustworthy than upper-middle-class people." #language #HigherEd #AcademicSky #edchat #DEI #linguistics www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2... Working class and ethnic minor...

"Based only on their accent, lower-working-class people were judged to be on average 14% less intelligent, 4% less friendly and 5% less trustworthy than upper-middle-class people." #language #HigherEd #edchat #DEI #linguistics https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2021/10/07/accent-bias-in-south-east-of-england