I’m really not impressed by hacker new’s scholarship on this. Here’s a paragraph from one of the papers cited here. Basically one of the key arguments in this p

I’m really not impressed by hacker new’s scholarship on this. Here’s a paragraph from one of the papers cited here. Basically one of the key arguments in this paper is that basis might be justified. Ignoring for a second that biase in real humans is much strong than differences between races, it also is beside the point. Race isn’t something people can control. If people at large are classifying people based on it that will legitimately act to keep the situation locked in place. If I think everyone with red hair is a criminal and act like it people with red hair will have pretty bad lives and a lot more of them will end up turning to crime > Cultural knowledge and accuracy as sources of implicit associations.This analysis has akinship to that of one of the earliest critiques of the IAT (Arkes & Tetlock, 2004). They argued that,rather than reflecting prejudice, the race IAT might reflect knowledge of cultural stereotypes. Our argument, however, goes further. The associations tapped by the IAT may reflect not just cultural stereotypes, but implicit cognitive registration of regularities and realities of the social environment.Consistent with this analysis, IAT response times were faster when stimuli corresponded to ecologically valid base rates (Bluemke & Fiedler, 2009). Even evaluations of groups may come from knowledge of those groups’ social conditions (Payne et al., 2017). For example, groups disproportionately living in unpleasant conditions (such as poverty, crime, rundown housing) may be associated with “unpleasant” more than other groups