Sunday, December 17, 2017

What If Everything About How We're Trying To Understand Prejudice Is Wrong?

Well, at least everything about the "implicit" or "unconscious" bias tests that people are taking online, not to mention the "overcoming implicit bias" trainings that almost everyone in the corporate world has to take. "The forgiving notion of unconscious prejudice has become the go-to explanation for all manner of discrimination, but the shaky science behind the IAT suggests this theory isn’t simply easy, but false. And if implicit bias is a weak scapegoat, we must confront the troubling reality that society is still, disturbingly, all too consciously racist and sexist."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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