25 August 2017 - diversity training 3
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Logically speaking, a way exists to solve discrimination and still
rely on human judgment: Correct the judgment. The unconscious biases
are formed in large part by an automatic statistical classification of
the environment with the goal of identifying ingroups and outgroups,
a hierarchy of “people like me” for different situations. The social
learning mechanism can be retrained by presenting it a new environment.
In other words, first solve discrimination, then the rest is easy.
clue:
“Role model teams,” deliberately created diverse work groups, are an
attempt to do this a little at a time.
take oh take this clue away