re: #500 Obdicut

Oh, just I’d love for an actual study to be done in the US of biases, against, for example, uneducated people, people from Appalachia, blacks who speak non-standard English, non-English speakers, etc.

YOu can’t get away from a certain amount of systemic bias, of course, but it’d be good to know where we stand.

Oh, have I shown you this?

[Link: implicit.harvard.edu…]

It’s a demonstration of language-based implicit associations that we have towards various groups. It’s neat, and if you try it out, you’re helping out scientific research.

Yes you have.

I found it fascinating.

How would you go about eliminating that?

I served on a jury for a case that had testimony from an undercover police officer. We were all asked if we could judge the testimony the same way we’d judge anyone else’s. We all agreed.

In the jury room, five people believed the cop because he was a cop and three disbelieved the cop because he was a cop.