60 pages 2 hours read

Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony Greenwald

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

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Essay Topics

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What are mindbugs? How do the authors define them? What are some examples throughout the book of mindbugs?

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What is an IAT? How did author Anthony R. Greenwald create the first Race IAT? What did the test entail?

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According to the authors, to what extent is the Race IAT correlated to racially discriminatory behavior? What are some of the studies that were done to demonstrate that the two are correlated? Do you think this is a strong correlation? Why or why not?