Implicit Bias Training Isn't Improving Corporate Diversity - Bloomberg - 0 views
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despite the growing adoption of unconscious bias training, there is no convincing scientific evidence that it works
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In fact, much of the academic evidence on implicit bias interventions highlights their weakness as a method for boosting diversity and inclusion. Instructions to suppress stereotypes often have the opposite effect, and prejudice reduction programs are much more effective when people are already open-minded, altruistic, and concerned about their prejudices to begin with.
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This is because the main problem with stereotypes is not that people are unaware of them, but that they agree with them (even when they don’t admit it to others). In other words, most people have conscious biases.
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