1819 - Uncovering Unconscious Racial Bias - Lecture Examines Stereotypes and Their Impacts | National Academies
To study whether bias might be shaping disparities in treatment earlier in life, during schooling, Eberhardt and her colleagues gave teachers files describing a hypothetical student’s misbehavior, and asked how they would discipline the student. Half the teachers were given a file for a student named Greg — a stereotypically white name — and the other half were given an identical file for a student named Darnell, a stereotypically black name. When a single incident of misbehavior was descri...