Implicit Bias: Behaviour and Remedies?
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- Implicit Bias: Behaviour and Remedies?
- Implicit Bias and Behaviour
- Spear 1884
- 1. Teachers were given identical essays
- 2. They awarded higher marks to work that had male names on the essays
- Bradley (1993)
- Blind-marking procedure was introduced
- Women students' marks went up
- Moss-Racusin et al 2012
- 1. In a randomised double-blind study, lecturers rated materials submitted as a part of application for post-graduate studies
- 2. These materials were randomly assigned either a male or female name
- 3. The participants rated male applicants as more hireable, selected a higher starting salary, and offered more mentoring to male applicant
- 4. The gender of participants didn't affect responses
- Spear 1884
- Remedies?
- The practice of anonymising can reduce effects of implicit bias
- Goldin and Rouse, 1997
- When auditions were anonymised, percentage of women in major symphony orchestras went up from less than 5% in 1970 to 25% in 1990s
- Can we anonymise to eliminate the effects of implicit bias?
- Should we always anonymise?
- Can you think of situations where anonymisation is impossible, very difficult, or otherwise problematic?
- Face to face interviews?
- Can you think of situations where anonymisation is impossible, very difficult, or otherwise problematic?
- Goldin and Rouse, 1997
- The practice of anonymising can reduce effects of implicit bias
- Implicit Bias and Behaviour
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