The Implicit-Bias House of Cards

[Dashinka 24,480]

Been to a few of these mandatory self-criticism sessions.  I agree, their basis does not pass the smell test.

 

The Implicit-Bias House of Cards

 

DEI trainings don’t work because one of the concepts on which they are based is junk science.
 

 

The problems with DEI trainings are not in their tone, however, but in their substance. The implicit-bias theory (also called unconscious-bias theory) on which these trainings are based has no scientific basis, as years of examinations have consistently demonstrated. Lee Jussim puts it politely in his “12 Reasons to Be Skeptical of Common Claims About Implicit Bias,” but the Open Science Foundation’s archive of Articles Critical of the IAT and Implicit Bias renders a harsher verdict. In 2011, Etienne LeBel and Sampo Paunonen reviewed evidence that measures of implicit bias possess low reliability. In other words, when you test for implicit bias multiple times, you rarely get the same result. Their conclusion was that some part of “implicit bias” is really “random measurement error.” In 2017, Heather Mac Donald’s intensive examination of the theory and its empirical basis (or lack thereof) concluded that the “implicit-bias crusade is agenda-driven social science.” And Bertram Gawronski’s 2019 review of the scholarly literature on implicit-bias research also concludes that there’s no proof that people aren’t self-aware enough to know what’s causing their supposedly “implicit” or “unconscious” biases; and that you can’t prove that there’s any relationship between how people do on the test and how they behave in the real world.

 

As far back as 2009, Hart Blanton and colleagues reexamined research data on implicit bias. They found that 70 percent of whites who supposedly displayed implicit bias against blacks actually discriminated in favor of blacks.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-implicit-bias-house-of-cards

 

[Boiler 45,445]

We never did those, sounds fun, well I would certainly make fun of them.

 

How could you not take the p iss?  

[TBoneTX 45,259]

9 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Been to a few of these mandatory self-criticism sessions.

How did you handle them?  Seemingly easiest would be to identify as whatever race, group, or sex was favored at each particular meeting.

[Boiler 45,445]

I would change at least hourly

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Just now, Boiler said:

at least

^^ This is the crucial part for flexibility and self-preservation.