What do you see? Unconscious Bias

What do you see? Unconscious Bias

By Kristel Bishop and Photos by: 2020 Joel Parés Photography, LLC

Open Ended

Use the R.A.C.E strategy to answer these questions.

1. What do you think is important to this person?

2. What kind of job do you think this person has?

3. If you met this person, would you be friends? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Use the R.A.C.E strategy to answer the questions

Picture #2.

1.What is important to this person?

2.What kind of job does this person have?

3.If you met this person, would you be friends? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Use the R.A.C.E strategy to answer the questions

Picture #3.

1.What is important to this person?

2.What kind of job does this person have?

3.If you met this person, would you be friends? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Use the R.A.C.E strategy to answer the questions

Picture #4.

1.What is important to this person?

2.What kind of job does this person have?

3.If you met this person, would you be friends? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Use the R.A.C.E strategy to answer the questions

Picture #5.

1.What is important to this person?

2.What kind of job does this person have?

3.If you met this person, would you be friends? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Use the R.A.C.E strategy to answer the questions

Picture #6.

1.What is important to this person?

2.What kind of job does this person have?

3.If you met this person, would you be friends? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Use the R.A.C.E strategy to answer the questions

Picture #7

1.What is important to this person?

2.What kind of job does this person have?

3.If you met this person, would you be friends? Why or why not?

Poll

Are you surprised that he is a Harvard graduate?

• Yes

• No

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Are you surprised he’s a minister

• Yes

• No

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Are you surprised he’s a Chief Executive officer of a fortune 500 company

• Yes

• No

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Are you surprised he’s a famous painter

• Yes

• No

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Are you surprised she’s a graduate of an Ivy league College graduate

• Yes

• No

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Are you surprised she’s a nurse

• Yes

• No

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Are you surprised he's a military veteran

• Yes

• No

​What are labels. assumptions, and stereotypes?

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Label: A name, word, or phrase used to classify or categorize a person or thing (labels are often, but not always, inaccurate)

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Assumption: Something that is accepted as true before one gathers any proof that it is so

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Stereotype: An often incorrect assumption made about all of the members of a particular group

​Throughout our lives, people attach labels to us, and those labels reflect and affect how others think about our identities as well as how we think about ourselves.

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Labels are not always negative; they can reflect positive characteristics, set useful expectations, and provide meaningful goals in our lives. Often, however, the labels that we use to describe each other are the result of unfounded assumptions and stereotypes.

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We regularly apply labels to people whom we barely know or have never even met, and the same is done to us. Thus, for good or for bad, labels represent an influence on our identity that is often beyond our control.

​When someone sees you walking down the street, what lists might they make about you?

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What lists do you sometimes make about others?

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How might these lists shape choices people make (beyond greeting each other)?

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What would it take to change the lists people make about each other?