{"id":4943,"date":"2020-02-25T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2020-02-25T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:48:19","slug":"implicit-bias-test-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/25\/implicit-bias-test-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Implicit Bias Test Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The implicit bias test I took was on a topic that I see both sides of. It was an example of: my parents believe concept #1, it is a generational view, something that I grew up with so I understand. Concept #2 is generally more popular with my generation and demographic. I believed that since high school with my evolving views that are my own, separate from my parents, I would hold a slightly stronger preference for concept #2 over concept #1. That was not the case, the test showed that I hold a slight bias for #1. This was not the result I was expecting, this surprised me greatly and got me thinking about the power of the environment we grow up in, the way parents unknowingly mold their children. We never talk about where our beliefs came from, we just firmly state &#8220;I believe x,&#8221; and then fight about it, I feel like it is a huge loss that we, as a society, don&#8217;t take the time to breakdown where our beliefs come from. I feel like this would lead to finding more common ground among people and a stronger self-awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implicit bias test I took was on a topic that I see both sides of. It was an example of: my parents believe concept #1, it is a generational view, something that I grew up with so I understand. Concept #2 is generally more popular with my generation and demographic. I believed that since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","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\/4943","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\/4671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}