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> Or just have thoughts about racism interfering with concentration? That's what "stereotype threat" is.

• olliej 7y ago
  No, stereotype threat is performing less well because you believe you’re expected to. @perl4ever is being much more explicit: the stress caused directly by the exam setup making it very explicit that they are considering race when grading. Those are wildly different. My presumption on the concept of stereotype threat is that it isn’t “real” - these studies find statistical evidence based on “priming” which was super hot for a decade or two before it was discovered that it was complete nonsense (it was a significant contributor to the start of the “replication crisis” in psych+soc). Eg if your study finds a statistical significance based on assuming priming works, but we know priming doesn’t, then your study, statistics, or both, are bad.
  • perl4ever 7y ago
    It seems plausible to me that some people might be discouraged by thinking of stereotypes, and others might get angry and do better, and once you average it out, you don't find an effect. People often talk about how you can find an effect that doesn't exist by slicing and dicing your data, but you can also cover up one that does exist by not dividing it up.