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Airbnb hosts, Uber drivers and waiters who are more politically conservative get slightly higher ratings and tips

  • Written by Alexander Davidson, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Wayne State University
Airbnb hosts, Uber drivers and waiters who are more politically conservative get slightly higher ratings and tipsDo your driver's political beliefs affect the service he provides?AP Photo/Anita Snow

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Customers give higher ratings and tips to politically conservative Airbnb hosts, Uber drivers and waiters than to ones with more liberal leanings, according to new peer-reviewed research...

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