![]() Similarly, boys are three times as likely as girls to be suspended one or more times.” “Black children make up only 19 percent of preschool enrollment, but comprise 47 percent of preschoolers suspended one or more times. ![]() “Black preschoolers are 3.6 times as likely to receive one or more suspensions relative to White preschoolers,” they note correctly. They wanted to examine the “underlying causes” for the disproportionate number of black boys expelled from preschool. The Yale researchers’ motivation was uncontroversial. ![]() If it proves anything other than the bias of both social scientists and the media on racial issues, it’s that implicit bias-assuming there is such a thing, and that we know how to measure it-has no clear real-life consequences. Though endorsed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and gullibly covered in major media outlets, the study is a mess of contradictions and spin. A new paper by the Yale Child Study Center on implicit bias among preschool teachers gives us a chance to get a closer look at the concept in practice. ![]() “I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.” She promised to fund implicit-bias training for police forces if she is elected.īy citing “implicit bias”-defined as unconsciously held “ negative associations” about a group-the ever-studious Clinton introduced into the political conversation an academic term that has migrated from social-justice circles to the mainstream. “I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police,” she said in response to moderator Lester Holt’s question about recent police shootings of black men. As the media picked over the carcass of Donald Trump’s disastrous debate performance last week, Hillary Clinton’s critics continued to eye one statement by the Democratic nominee. ![]()
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