This piece was authored by Austin Henshaw.
This past week has been yuge, as the President-Elect would say, for calling into question concepts taught on university campuses and sometimes practiced in the corporate sector as true. Namely, the concepts of implicit bias and microaggressions.
In “A Meta-Analysis of Change in Implicit Bias” study that was conducted in May 2016 and recently covered by media outlets, researchers amalgamated evidence from 426 studies (comprising over 72,000 participants) to examine the effectiveness of different interventions for changing implicit bias, defined in the paper as “mental associations between concepts that are activated automatically.” In practice, this is oftentimes used in the context of unconscious racial bias. The Implicit Association Test (IAT), a popular psychological instrument for measuring implicit bias when it comes to racial preference, was even alluded to by Hillary Clinton in her first debate with Donald Trump. While…
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