I'm still upset at those who have supported the campaign for and cast votes for a selfish, greedy, manipulative asshole. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. This book (or the concepts within it) should be required reading for anyone who works with diverse clients or customers, handles complexVery interesting and timely read for our society today. However, for someone who is looking for meatier fare about racism--especially its embeddedness in social institutions--this book will leave you hungering for more. A bizarre chart categorizes gay and lesbian as genders. You might think that this book about how everyone harbors some level/version of prejudice, but it's actually about how YOU harbor some level/version of prejudice. And for anyone else whose interested in the intersection of science and behavior with issues like structural racism and sexism (and plenty of other 'isms'), I'd highly recommend this book. Implicit bias is a totally worthwhile topic, but this book was just not great. In Stock.
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There are two sides of the mind. You can probably do that really quickly, without even having to think, since your brain can just associate the pairs into "Red goes lefYour brain associates concepts, and it doesn't always tell you. This book focuses on out hidden biases, those that operate below our level of consciousness.
However, the real focus of the book is on race.
It was repetitive and there were some good observations but it was very repetitive.
A bizarre chart categorizes gay and lesbian as genders.
So that’s possibly my last post here until, like, May, when maybe I’ll have time to read an entire book again.For anyone who likes the genre of books like Freakonomics and The Tipping Point this is a great read. The book is loaded with scientific information and observational insight on how the mind works to shape our view of those similar to us and different from us.
As a reader, you knew what the results would be. The Implicit Association Test is very fascinating. No small wonder that any attempt to consciously level the playing field meets with such resistance.” So if you are comfortable and interested in reading about brain research and psychology, then it's pretty enjoyable. In Stock. At another, the author tells a racist joke to make the point that things can be simultaneously offensive and funny, or something...? To create our lis...It's very research based. However unfortunately we carry unconscious biases which we largely have no control over. Using data obtained using the Implicit Association Test (developed at Harvard), the authors make a convincing case to convince the reader that, yes, you probably are prejudiced in ways you don't know, and yes, those prejudices impact your actions in ways which would horrify you if you knew about it.I highly recommend this book.
But as noted in the book it can be potentially very traumatizing to learn your own hidden biases.
Statistical and other scientific evidence presented in the book clearly establish that minority Americans face disadvantages that can be at least partially attributed to either conscious or non-conscious bias. But it's a good introduction to the idea of implicit bias and will open eyes for those who aren't otherwise steeped in this stuff.Full disclosure, I could only skim. Plus, the book is just extremely repetitive (it would have been much better off as an article than a whole book. I am currently reading it for the third time.Because I had already taken the IAT and read a fair amount about it before I read this book, there wasn't much new here for me.
On the first try you may separate white faces with good and black faces with bad then you will be asked to separate black faces into good and white faces to the bad. However unfortunately we carry unconscious biases which we largely have no control over. It requires some test taking as you read, so my recommendation is to read it on a tablet kindle app, and just go straight to the online website via the provided link to do the tests. A throwaway joke about how only the only people who like bugs are little boys seems, uh, remarkably un-self-aware joke for a book about avoiding stereotyping. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
An excellent book highlighting what we all fear we have deep down... some biases that may influence our behavior toward others different from ourselves in some way. However unfortunately we carry unconscious biases which we largely have no control over. Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item?The subject field is required.
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Buy Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People Illustrated by Banaji, Mahzarin R (ISBN: 8601300327310) from Amazon's Book Store. Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? The fact that most of this bias occurs outside the awareness of the perpetrators highlights the need for more education and counseling about how we all need to accept that we may not always be as egalitariI think this books refutes any claim that the United States is in a post-racial era.