Implicit Bias

Attitude Test

Through my implicit attitude test I was asked a series of questions regarding my age, gender, religious beliefs and sexuality. These questions were further implemented into a series of tests where I had to match my birth year, eye color and first letter of my name to “me” or “not me”. This process was further developed by adding the option of “women” and “man” paired with the two other option, showing how my brain operates and what I associate with and correlate to myself. My final results came out as associating myself with a male much greater over a female deriving these results from every time you mess up in the test. 

Selection Process

Implicit bias has a strong application into the validity and reliability throughout the selection process while hiring new employees. An implicit bias is “Also known as implicit social cognition, implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.”(Kirwan Institute) These implicit bias happen under an unconscious state of mind and you may not recognize them whenever your are trying to conduct an un bias interview with a potential employee. These actions can result in an unfair review for a potential candidate as most implicit bias are racial, leading to a disadvantage for minority in the work force. Even though these biases occur in our subconscious every body obtains some kind of implicit bias, I think a good implementation technique for each hiring individual within a company is to attend debiasing classes, as The Kirwin Insitute says “Implicit biases are malleable.  Our brains are incredibly complex, and the implicit associations that we have formed can be gradually unlearned through a variety of debiasing techniques.” (Kirwan Institute) This process would make the eligibility within the job seeking individual who my be discriminated against much greater as these people interviewing are aware of their implicit bias and have learned to keep them out of the work environent.

Citations:

The Kirwan Institute. “Understanding Implicit Bias.” Understanding Implicit Bias | Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, https://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/article/understanding-implicit-bias.