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Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World?

The Michael Shermer Show

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The IAT and the Post-It Association Test

Harvard's Project Implicit suggests that when we relax our active efforts to be egalitarian, our implicit biases can lead to discriminatory behavior. The IAT Post-It Association Test did not survive the replication crisis. There are at least five problems with the test; associations between words and categories may simply be measuring familiar cultural or linguistic affiliations. For centuries, the arc of the moral universe has been bending toward justice as a result of changing people's explicit behaviors and beliefs.

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