Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions

Interesting article.

For the "black names" thing, though, I would be curious to know if there were any studies also comparing "stereotypical white-but-not-anglophone" names, for example Greek, East-European, or South-European names.

And also, for example, non-traditional names that have no racial implications, like "Rainbow" or similar.

That is scientific evidence for the existence of racism people.

To be real scientists, and rational, we must be willing to admit what the evidence says, even if it makes us uncomfortabl. Creationists think evolution means their religion is wrong, so they fight the evidence. People don't like to think they act racist, so fight the evidence.

This article raises a question: how does one train their "fast" thinking? If someone reads this article and recalls all of the times that at least internally they passed a wrong judgement based on another's race, what can they do to prevent immediately thinking such things?

I don't much like this intuitive answer: if you're simply aware of your tendency to erroneously judge, you can consciously act against it. Is there any way to train the subconscious? The lack of time to consciously address racism in some situations could lead to mortality.

Awesome article; science is great.

Why is the belief that the human species has races just like cats, dogs, cows, horses, etc. so widespread in the US culture?

Even anti-racism rhetoric takes this absurd proposition as a fact. Take this article for example: all the cases where the author talks about ethnicity he uses "race" instead.

I read about a study once where college students in the US were asked to provide their ethnicity on the front of their test papers. This had a notable negative effect on the scores of African-Americans due to unconscious bias, I believe it was presented as an example of priming