In addition, she also wrote a contrast test to prove that identity contingencies not only affect the lives of black people, but also have the capacity to influence the White, male, female, young, old, and so on. However, Crosley-Corcoran, as a white person, admits in her article that white privilege actually exists and provides her with innate advantages that black people have no chance of obtaining. Because of her identity, she is white, so her words serve as powerful and effective evidence to reinforce Steele's argument that "identity contingencies – the things you have to deal with in a situation because you have a social identity given, because you are old, young, gay, a white man, a woman, black, Latino, politically conservative or liberal, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a cancer patient, etc..