Online Interactive Web Video; NCWIT Unconscious Bias
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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nice job. Approximately 90% of test takers will not see the cow until told nearly 1/3 will not see it even after told, and many won't see it until they viewed the picture several times so clearly, you got out on the right side of the bed. Today. Here's what's going on way All rely on scheme is to help us make it through way. Need them to make sense of information and a function they let us pay attention. Toe only select information way have scheme is for very simple concepts a bike car, tree or, in this case account, but also for more complex things like male female leader technical. But they can also cause us to miss for misinterpret certain things. And that's where unconscious bias comes in. So, for example, the picture you just saw doesn't fit. Most people schemes for cow. Good news is, once you tell them it's a cow, most people will end up seeing, if not right away eventually. This means that our schemes could be expanded in many ways, and this is why addressing unconscious bias is so important In the workplace, for example, someone may not recognize someone else is a good leader or a good technical person because that person doesn't fit our unconscious scheme. It's But if someone we respect recommends that so and so would make a good leader, we might take a second look and give that person a chance and ultimately expand. Our scheme is about these ideas. Makes sense. Great. Now would you like to try another experiment or learn about why? Unconscious biases. Oh.