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It's impossible to detect bias in systems that are intended to be meritocracies when "merit" is subjective or related to luck. In the case of acting, merit is highly subjective.

Furthermore, trying to turn this into a "data" experiment by looking at past results is also pointless because the Academy has changed over time and every movie is different. There are too many variables.

Trying to say that the Academy is "racist" or "not racist" based on the nominations is ludicrous.

The only possible solution is to make the Academy as representative of the United States as possible and then accept whatever nominations they put forth as "probably pretty unbiased".