If youve never taken the IAT, its eye opening and sometimes - TopicsExpress



          

If youve never taken the IAT, its eye opening and sometimes startling. Bias can be explicit and very often, implicit, meaning the person doesnt even know they are making biased assumptions and judgments. This is a subject area that has been talked about for years when discussing jury behavior and its contribution to wrongful convictions and disproportionate sentencing. It took widespread law enforcement use of force brutality to finally get this conversation to the mainstream. Its not a comfortable conversation by any means, but a necessary one. Accepting is the first step. Also, check out Nevada. Its a pretty different color amongst other western states. washingtonpost/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/08/across-america-whites-are-biased-and-they-dont-even-know-it/
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 02:52:49 +0000

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