{"id":4746,"date":"2020-02-21T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2020-02-21T22:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T03:00:57","slug":"reading-response-feb-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/21\/reading-response-feb-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Response Feb. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Blindspot by Banaji and Greenwald, the authors discuss how humans each day make &#8216;unconscious inferences&#8217; about objects, information, and even people. This can include making mundane inferences about a person&#8217;s political views or even what region they are from in the United States. One can assume that it does not matter whether these inferences are right or wrong. However, making these inaccurate judgements can be very dangerous in serious matters. For example, this reading references the determination of trust or intelligence based on only a picture of an individual. The implications for these assessments can mean someone&#8217;s life or their safety. This can be seen in mistaking an innocent black man as a suspect because his appearance is similar to a certain stereotype. This reading was fascinating for me since it demonstrated that our unconscious thoughts can have farther reaching consequences than we anticipate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Blindspot by Banaji and Greenwald, the authors discuss how humans each day make &#8216;unconscious inferences&#8217; about objects, information, and even people. This can include making mundane inferences about a person&#8217;s political views or even what region they are from in the United States. One can assume that it does not matter whether these inferences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}