Well this is interesting:
"related to a largely subconscious apprehension about confirming the given negative stereotype"
All whites are racist, all men hate women are sexual predators and wife beaters... Maybe progresives should read about this before spreading their bs?
All blacks are racist too. It's not a big deal. We're not trying to tell you you're a bad person. We're trying to say "this is normal and you're not worse than anyone else, but we do need to acknowledge the problem so we can mitigate it."
"All blacks are racist too"
oh stop it. It was told by progresives over and over again that blacks can not be racist! Remember - racism is power + prejudice! (Same with sexism).
Do you have any more lies/mental gymnastics?
What erikpukinskis said was mental gymnastics and provable lie used to dodge truth. In every discussion pinting out lies and falacies is not considered un-civil. I could have linked to articles of academics, speeches of high caliber progresives saying blacks can't be racist. An I would have been banned anyway.
Keep on being progressive HN. But please be honest (I know, progressives can't do that but why don't you try?) and stop calling people not supporting your narrative trols.
If I asked Michelle if there were any positives of our gender bias, in any way, across all of western society, what do you think her response would be?
Hmmm, I wonder how well this correlates with the placebo effect.
In other words, how deep do the effects of negative stereotyping run? The titular study shows that with concentrated effort to overcome the limiting stereotype, the effects of the stereotype can be mostly overcome.
What if you ignored the stereotype, and tried the experiment again, using an an arbitrary advantage.
For instance, if the groups in the study were performed using a "drug" or other similar placebo.
Well, the same trick (imagine yourself as the other gender) didn't work on the boys, so it can't be just a matter of "here's a strange experience... Now take the test." Is that what you are suggesting?
No, I wouldn't necessarily expect the inverse situation to be true (hence why boys still maintain high scores).
It's not a matter of a "strange" experience, its a matter of expectations about outcomes. Basically, you could do the same test with men + women, but instead of having them visualize themselves as a stereotype, have them try a new "drug" that will supposedly improve their focus and math skills.
Comparing the results of that study with the originals will likely lead to some very interesting observations, no matter the result.
tl;dr: (As you might have anticipated) Women who are primed to imagine themselves as a man perform statistically the same as men. This has implications for other standardized tests too. When people (subconsciously) underperform to confirm to a (negative) stereotype of some part of their identity, it's called stereotype threat. A similar effect occurs, e.g., when a woman is in an engineering class surrounded by men.
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Keep on being progressive HN. But please be honest (I know, progressives can't do that but why don't you try?) and stop calling people not supporting your narrative trols.
In other words, how deep do the effects of negative stereotyping run? The titular study shows that with concentrated effort to overcome the limiting stereotype, the effects of the stereotype can be mostly overcome.
What if you ignored the stereotype, and tried the experiment again, using an an arbitrary advantage. For instance, if the groups in the study were performed using a "drug" or other similar placebo.
It's not a matter of a "strange" experience, its a matter of expectations about outcomes. Basically, you could do the same test with men + women, but instead of having them visualize themselves as a stereotype, have them try a new "drug" that will supposedly improve their focus and math skills.
Comparing the results of that study with the originals will likely lead to some very interesting observations, no matter the result.
tl;dr: (As you might have anticipated) Women who are primed to imagine themselves as a man perform statistically the same as men. This has implications for other standardized tests too. When people (subconsciously) underperform to confirm to a (negative) stereotype of some part of their identity, it's called stereotype threat. A similar effect occurs, e.g., when a woman is in an engineering class surrounded by men.