implicit bias in higher ed - for undergraduates

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Explicit Bias

Attitudes of beliefs we have about a person or group of people on a conscious level.

Examples?

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A seating chart, by gender,for our class last week.

What do you see?

◦Women make up 50% of undergraduate STEM degrees in US, but…◦35.2% of chemists are women;◦22% of geoscientists are women;◦11.1% of physicists and astronomers are women;◦33.8% of environmental engineers are women;◦22.7% of chemical engineers are women;◦17.5% of civil, architectural, and sanitary engineers are women;◦17.1% of industrial engineers are women;◦10.7% of electrical or computer hardware engineers are women; and◦7.9% of mechanical engineers are women.

https://ngcproject.org/statistics

At Georgia Tech, there are more senior administrators named Steve than there are women chairs & deans.

Implicit Bias

Attitudes of beliefs we have about a person or group of people on an unconscious level.

Implicit Bias

Attitudes of beliefs we have about a person or group of people on an unconscious level.

Key characteristics and origins:1) innate to everyone2) we only consciously process a fraction of input data3) we have evolved to find patterns in the world, quickly

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

(Test taken by Kim Cobb, October 6, 2016)

Ben BarresProfessor of NeurobiologyStanford University

born Barbara Barres,transitioned 10 years ago

“Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but his work is much better than his sister’s work”

link to Ben Schmidt’s pagecompiled from 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessor.com

male Profs are

brilliantawesomegeniusknowledgeable

female Profs are

bossybeautiful (or ugly)annoyingunfriendly

NOTE: female profs rated a full point lower on “effectiveness” by students (male and female alike)(McNell et al., 2015)

Moss-Racusin et al., PNAS 2012

what happens when science faculty are given identical resumes with different names. . .

Moss-Racusin et al., PNAS 2012

what happens when science faculty are given identical resumes with different names. . .

NOTEfemale and male professorswere equally biased

What to do? Strategies? Approaches?

Given:1) We cannot ever eliminate implicit bias entirely.2) It likely is an “invisible hand” in many keyareas of our lives and those of others.

What does it mean to be an ally?