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The Immediate Bias Training Programmes Aren't a Solution, Right?
It's very difficult to design psychological interventions that produce positive effects, and it's very difficult to do the studies necessary to demonstrate that those effects exist. When you're dealing with a phenomena that's only weakly linked to racial attitudes, which would be, say, implicit bias as measured by the implicit association test,. That is something our species has not yet figured out or may never figure out. And if you're a corporation that's pushed to take noticeable action on problems of race, the implicit bias training programmes at least offer you a the possibility of appearing state of the art. But who knows if they even care? It's a lot easier just to look virtuous than to actually be virt well