Thana: Does this make me less races than somebody who maybe lives, has all the sort of right attitudes, but lives in a less diverse place? And hasn't had the kind of data day interaction that would allow them to score better on a test like this. But then here is the other question, and i think this is what depressed me and bugged me. Would that mean that black people face less discrimination in houston, because the people are less races in this way? There my my, my suspicion is the answer to that question is definitely not - or at least not necessarily.
David and Tamler tackle the topic of implicit bias and the controversy surrounding the implicit association test (IAT). What is implicit bias anyway? Does it have to be linked to behavior in order to truly count as a "bias"? Has the IAT been overhyped as a reflection of individual or group prejudice? And why is the debate on this topic so depressing? Plus, some deep thoughts on the intellectual dark web, how to join it, and what the analogy is supposed to reflect.
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Links:
- Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web - The New York Times
- Psychology’s Racism-Measuring Tool Isn’t Up to the Job -- Science of Us
- Implicit-association test - Wikipedia
- Take the Implicit Associations Test (IAT)
- Greenwald, A. G., Poehlman, T. A., Uhlmann, E. L., & Banaji, M. R. (2009). Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: III. Meta-analysis of predictive validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(1), 17.
- Oswald, F. L., Mitchell, G., Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Tetlock, P. E. (2013). Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: A meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies. Journal of personality and social psychology, 105(2), 171.
- Nock, M. K., & Banaji, M. R. (2007). Prediction of suicide ideation and attempts among adolescents using a brief performance-based test. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 75(5), 707.
- Uhlmann, E. L., Pizarro, D. A., & Bloom, P. (2008). Varieties of social cognition. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(3), 293-322. — This is a paper in which Eric Uhlmann, Paul Bloom and one of your humble hosts try to tackle the ways in which the word 'unconscious' is used (and abused) in the literature on social cognition.