Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Researchers think they've found a way to fight racial discrimination on Airbnb. You know, that's the service where you go online and rent somebody else's home when you're traveling. Airbnb has been criticized because hosts on this platform are found less likely to rent their homes to African-Americans than to white guests. NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam joins us regularly on this program, and he has some new research that may point to a solution. Hi, Shankar. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, Steve. INSKEEP: So remind us here, how do they find bias in the first place? VEDANTAM: There have been multiple studies about this, Steve. The most recent one comes from Dennis Zhang. He's a business researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. He recently sent out hundreds of housing requests to Airbnb hosts in Chicago, Seattle and Boston. As with previous studies along these lines, the requests were identical but
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