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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald

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 privileged people
  • Good people recognize these mindbugs and seek ways to work around them

 

Try and be excellent to each other

 

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