Some brilliant folks working to move the world beyond "implicit bias training" on this episode
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Some brilliant folks working to move the world beyond "implicit bias training" on this episode
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Behavior
On this episode, we take a look at some of the hidden forces that shape our behaviors and decisions.
WHYY (whyy.org)
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Also a nice chat about social cognition in the beginning here @gdinwiddie
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This being said, I think some of the statements about mirroring are a bit overblown people always love this effect, the research is a bit more complicated
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The implicit bias training bit starts at about minute 23!
I've been fascinated by this topic since my first onboarding at a tech company where the implicit bias training they showed us had a room of hundreds of men around me trying to associate "woman" and "scientist" while I sat there like HEYYYY
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In case it's not clear my stance as a psychologist here is that just because something is an effect that we can study in a laboratory does not make it an ethical or efficacious intervention to run at scale
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@grimalkina
Oh, yeah, this!! People are so quick to get their undies in a bunch over correlation vs causation (often far past the point of usefulness imo), but have a weird blind spot for causation vs intervention efficacy.Vitamin supplements that cannot actually be absorbed by the body are an obvious example. But this problem is everywhere: software, education, work environment, social change………….
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@inthehands fun history when I started consulting in evidence science after leaving Google it became really clear to me that the biggest most legible thing to people about someone with my skills was that I could do implicit bias training/consulting. I did not believe in the efficacy of such training so I never did and lost a lot of potential money that way. It took a much longer slower time to build business but my gosh I'm glad because the science really caught up on this and affirmed it
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@inthehands I have a ton of sympathy with the people who worked hard in this area, it is absolutely not all to be discarded and there are really thoughtful people here not included in my critique, but the overall shape of what business in this area looks like and the rapid scaling of relatively untested interventions to huge workforces/and what those models are used to justify (like that all bias is "unconscious" which is flatly untrue) is a real failure of applied psychology imho
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@grimalkina
Strong agree, all the parts. And sympathies.I note that I was focused on my personal beef (“What works?”) and missed the other half of your message (“What scales?”)!
A happier thought to temper all that: I’m a big believer in the power of awareness. Even if we don’t have a scalable intervention for implicit bias, having lots of people realize it exists can still have a big positive impact. (And then, yes, we have to educate that not all bias is implicit…)