Where’s the bias? Let’s start with a quiz. 1. Who was more likely to vote for Donald Trump in 2016, men or women? 2. Who is more likely to commit a murder, men or women? 3. Who receives higher grades in high school, boys or girls? 4. Who is more likely to be labeled as … Read More
This essay is about bias, but not the bias you think. Do girls avoid STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields because of ongoing, widespread discrimination? Or do girls with the skill sets that would give them entrance to STEM fields prefer fields that involve working with people over fields that involve working with things? Click here, for … Read More
Extraordinary Scientific Delusions and the Blindness of Psychologists Everyone knows that stereotypes are inaccurate, especially psychologists: “However, a great deal of the thrust of stereotyping research has been to demonstrate that these behavioral expectancies are overgeneralized and inaccurate predictors of actual behavior of the target individual (Darley & Fazio, 1980, p. 870). Click here, for the … Read More