THE PERCEPTION OF DISCRIMINATION IN TURKEY
identity and the political view is around or slightly below the average values.
Discrimination against refugees and mentally disabled people is the least likely
to be tolerated in different spheres of life, with the values corresponding to the
polygons on the inner walls of the graph.
3.B.3. Interrelated Attitudes Against Discrimination
To question the relationship between attitudes towards these types of discrimination, we measured the correlation values between each with the Kendall’s
Tau-b test. This test showed a statistical significance (p <.0005, N = 1060) and a
positive relationship between attitudes towards each type of discrimination and
attitudes towards other types of discrimination. However, only some of these
relationships indicate a medium-strength correlation (0.4 <r <0.7), while the rest
have a statistically significant and positive but weak correlation. Based on the
types of discrimination, which have a moderately strong and positive relationship concerning the correlation coefficient, we can group the attitudes that are
related to each other in two groups.
The first group consists of the attitudes through discrimination based on sexual identity, political opinion, belief, ethnic belonging, refugee/migration. Gender-based discrimination is related to both groups. (See Graph 12)
The other group in correlation with each other, includes discrimination against
young people and the elderly, and attitudes towards discrimination based on
mental disability, physical disability and gender. (See Graph 13)
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