{"id":6313,"date":"2021-03-08T22:34:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T03:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2021-03-08T22:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T03:34:51","slug":"blog-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/08\/blog-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I took the implicit bias test about gender bias. I found myself really having to concentrate as they changed the sides around. My results said that I had \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a weak automatic association between Me and Woman and a moderate automatic association between Not-me and Man. I was a little surprised that the connection between \u201cme\u201d and \u201cwoman\u201d was not equally as associated as my connection between \u201cnot me\u201d and \u201cMan\u201d. I think I spend a decent amount of time thinking about my female identity and women\u2019s rights, but I guess that also plays into feeling particularly more separate from the male identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Blindspot&#8221; by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald explores the hidden reasons for our biases. I found the section about the Innocence Project especially interesting because it provided a clear example of the real world effects of hidden biases. The reading mentioned how 250 people had been exonerated through the project, and 190 of those wrongful convictions were because of incorrect eyewitness accounts. They were able to go back and correct the cases by using DNA data, but the fact that 75% of wrongful convictions were based on false eyewitness accounts makes the importance of learning about availability and implicit bias all the more important. The reading described how we tend to trust people who have features that are similar to our own more than those who don\u2019t. It was really easy for people to assign characteristics to images of strangers even simply based on their appearance and no other information. The authors argue that it\u2019s harder for us to refrain from split second judgments than to not assign them in the first place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the implicit bias test about gender bias. I found myself really having to concentrate as they changed the sides around. My results said that I had \u201ca weak automatic association between Me and Woman and a moderate automatic association between Not-me and Man. I was a little surprised that the connection between \u201cme\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6313","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\/6313","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\/4600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}