Why We’re Biased About Being Biased

Re:Why We’re Biased About Being Biased by antisthenes on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:57PM (#14249445)

I took a look at the referenced paper the nautilus article cites, and it is extremely poorly designed, to the point of being near useless to make any sorts of conclusions and definitely not good enough to create any sort of social justice policies.

Not surprising, considering it's a psychology paper, but still.

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Re:Why We’re Biased About Being Biased by golemotron on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:03PM (#14250053)

There are 19 research references on the moral credential effect [1] and self licensing [2] on their respective wikipedia pages. It might be a bit of work to go through all of them looking for disqualifying flaws. Maybe we can assume they are ok tentatively?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_credential_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing

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Re:Why We’re Biased About Being Biased by meowface on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:23PM (#14252027)

I think the parent post was referring to the specific study regarding disagreeing with sexist statements -> favoring gender stereotypes in hiring. I don't think he was questioning the validity of the moral credential effect.

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