A new study conducted by researchers at Northeastern and Stanford suggests that common image search results are overwhelmingly white.
From 54,070 unique image search queries conducted by more than 640 people on both Google and Bing, researchers found the average skin tone for the top 15 results for each query was the second whitest point on the 10-point Monk skin tone scale. [@FastCompany](https://flipboard.com/@FastCompany ) has more.
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