Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Format: kindle
ASIN: B004J4WJUC
Publish date: February 12th 2013
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
The short form: Humans are really good at detecting patterns All cultures include assumptions about groups Humans absorb these assumptions as implicit associations regardless of their explicit beliefs More privileged people grossly underestimate the harm from small acts of prejudice against less pr...
Disturbing and eye-opening. You can do these tests online or from the book to discover your own implicit biases.
Blindspot is an interesting glimpse into an uncomfortable subject. As per the subtitle, Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald seek to expose, explore, and explain so-called "hidden biases"; that is, the biases unknowingly harbored by those individuals who consider themselves unprejudiced or ev...
People, even people with the best of intentions, have biases. We say that justice is blind because we know how sight might betray us with instinctive acknowledgement of things unnecessary and detracting from the scales of equal consideration, thus deceiving the principle we hope to uphold. But what ...
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