Opinion | 2020 Taught Us How to Fix This - The New York Times - 0 views
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So many of our hopes are based on the idea that the key to change is education.
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anonymous on 04 Jan 21This whole articles lets us question the very education that we learn how to think about thoughts from too.
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Second, some researchers argue that the training activates stereotypes in people’s minds rather than eliminates them.
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Fourth, the mandatory training makes many white participants feel left out, angry and resentful, actually decreasing their support for workplace diversity.
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Fifth, people don’t like to be told what to think, and may rebel if they feel that they’re being pressured to think a certain way.
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our training model of “teaching people to be good” is based on the illusion that you can change people’s minds and behaviors by presenting them with new information and new thoughts.
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People change when they are put in new environments, in permanent relationship with diverse groups of people. Their embodied minds adapt to the environments in a million different ways we will never understand or be able to plan
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This points to a more fundamental vision of social change, but it is a hard-won lesson from a bitterly divisive year.
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this was the year that called into question the very processes by which our society supposedly makes progress.
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It turns out that if you tell someone their facts are wrong, you don’t usually win them over; you just entrench false belief.
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this was the year that showed that our models for how we change minds or change behavior are deeply flawed.
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The courses teach people about bias, they combat stereotypes and they encourage people to assume the perspectives of others in disadvantaged groups.
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One meta-analysis of 985 studies of anti-bias interventions found little evidence that these programs reduced bias. Other studies sometimes do find a short-term change in attitudes, but very few find a widespread change in actual behavior.
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Third, training can make people complacent, thinking that because they went through the program they’ve solved the problem