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“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male”
- choeger 8y agoFirst of all, tests that can not easily be repeated are inherently unfair. But in general we need to assess competence for certain professions. I really wish we as a society would put more emphasis on the "repeat until you got it" part instead of the notes. The results, however, are fascinating. For instance how does it come that females of any color and black people of any gender are affected by negative priming but white men are not, according to the cited Berlin study? Social immunization? Dunning-kruger? Doe the results indicate that female (color) students should be separated from male (white) students or would that not fortify the negative priming? From an ethical POV, if we knew that male (white) students perform better in tests, because they are subconsciously in a better state of mind, what do we do if that phenomenon translates into the workplace? Do we help the careers of female surgeons, pilots, engineers by "correcting" their assessments. Or do we require them to get rid of that "condition"?