{"id":212,"date":"2010-06-25T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T11:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=212"},"modified":"2021-06-12T19:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T00:41:29","slug":"implicit-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2010\/06\/25\/implicit-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Implicit Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awis.org\/\">AWIS<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\">NSF<\/a> meeting in DC, I am learning about implicit bias, that none of us see things objectively, as in the following amazing optical illusions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shepard_tables\">The Tables<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persci.mit.edu\/gallery\/checkershadow\">The Checkerboard<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QirAG58U1FY&amp;feature=related\">video<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10204047526283221&amp;set=a.2215289656523.118366.1076035621&amp;type=1\">Squares<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2RSsoTJA6cA\">Spinning Woman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/distractify.com\/fun\/amazing-t-rex-optical-illusion\/\">T-Rex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following human figures on the left are exactly the same color and shade as those on the right:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2010\/06\/main-qimg-488b2d7642a0e68de2f09dc28dc11bc7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1837\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2010\/06\/main-qimg-488b2d7642a0e68de2f09dc28dc11bc7-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"main-qimg-488b2d7642a0e68de2f09dc28dc11bc7\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2010\/06\/main-qimg-488b2d7642a0e68de2f09dc28dc11bc7-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2010\/06\/main-qimg-488b2d7642a0e68de2f09dc28dc11bc7.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For information on similar gender biases, see the brochure by <a href=\"http:\/\/wiseli.engr.wisc.edu\/\">WISELI<\/a> on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wiseli.engr.wisc.edu\/docs\/BiasBrochure_2ndEd.pdf\">Reviewing Applicants<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note added 25 May 2011.<\/strong> AWIS has posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/awis.org\/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&amp;subarticlenbr=425\">webcasts<\/a>. One study found that readers of CVs identical except for a man&#8217;s or a woman&#8217;s name at the top preferred to hire the man. The same study \u00a0found no such difference for tenure decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an AWIS&#8211;NSF meeting in DC, I am learning about implicit bias, that none of us see things objectively, as in the following amazing optical illusions: The Tables The Checkerboard (and video) Squares Spinning Woman T-Rex The following human figures on the left are exactly the same color and shade as those on the right: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}