Unjustified Generalization: An Overlooked Consequence of Ideological Bias.
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| Title: | Unjustified Generalization: An Overlooked Consequence of Ideological Bias. |
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| Authors: | Inbar, Yoel (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Psychological Inquiry. Jan-Mar2020, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p90-93. 4p. |
| Subjects: | Psychological tests, Implicit attitudes, Generalization, African American college students |
| Abstract: | Clark and Winegard (this issue) argue that researchers' (liberal) ideology is a threat to the validity of social-psychological research. In an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court, for example, leading stereotype threat researchers argued that "standardized test scores and grades often underestimate the true academic capacity of members of certain minority groups" (Aronson et al., [3], p. 4). On their own, however, laboratory demonstrations of stereotype threat cannot actually explain real-world achievement gaps; even statistically robust effects only disconfirm the much more limited null that I under no circumstances i will stereotype awareness affect the performance of minority group members (see Yarkoni, [26]). Perhaps one would do just as well to defend the stereotype threat hypothesis logically instead of empirically, and go straight to answering the question people actually care about: whether stereotype threat causes significant performance decrements I in situations that actually matter. i. [Extracted from the article] |
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| Abstract: | Clark and Winegard (this issue) argue that researchers' (liberal) ideology is a threat to the validity of social-psychological research. In an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court, for example, leading stereotype threat researchers argued that "standardized test scores and grades often underestimate the true academic capacity of members of certain minority groups" (Aronson et al., [3], p. 4). On their own, however, laboratory demonstrations of stereotype threat cannot actually explain real-world achievement gaps; even statistically robust effects only disconfirm the much more limited null that I under no circumstances i will stereotype awareness affect the performance of minority group members (see Yarkoni, [26]). Perhaps one would do just as well to defend the stereotype threat hypothesis logically instead of empirically, and go straight to answering the question people actually care about: whether stereotype threat causes significant performance decrements I in situations that actually matter. i. [Extracted from the article] |
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| ISSN: | 1047840X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1047840X.2020.1724758 |
