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Podcast Invisibilia

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The podcast, Invisibilia: The Culture Inside, explore several aspects regarding race, culture, and human behaviour. The podcast beginnings much like a short story, describing the events that occurred to a woman after a brain surgery, which resulted in alien hand syndrome (Spiegel & Rosin, 2017). This subject is used as a comparison for future subjects, and acts as a way for people to understand that something, humans do not have full control other what they think or feel. The podcast features several guests from various backgrounds who share their all own experiences regarding racism and the culture that they live in as well as other subjects that are based on these concepts.
A commonly experienced concept are stereotypes, which are “a widely …show more content…

This experience is not completely uncommon however, it was a perfect example of racial bias.
This theory was created by Tony Greenwald, a psychologist who recognized that that a large portion of people that claim to not be racist, display racist behaviour. This is because humans will naturally present their best selves, wanting to gain the approval of those around them. To rectify this, Tony designed a test in which people associate pleasant and unpleasant words with typical white or black names, upon doing so himself, his results where that he associated typical white names with pleasant words and typical black names with unpleasant words (Spiegel & Rosin, 2017).
There are variations of this test, one of which is based on faces opposed to names. The speed of which one responds to a word or image is used to measure their potential bias. For example, one with a high bias against African Americans would match African American names or faces with negative words quicker than they would with positive word. It is important to note that a person of any race can have a bias, and this may be from influence of their culture or media (Edmonds, …show more content…

The children were shown four pictures-two of men and two of women- and were told to pick who they thought were the clever person (Spiegel & Rosin, 2017).
It is stated in this article by Sarah Jane Leslie, who conducted this test, that “[at age] six, girls are significantly less likely than boys to think that a member of their own gender can be that really, really smart person” (Edmonds, 2017). If a child at the age of six can have a gender bias, then it is plausible that one could develop racial bias by that age as well.
The article also discusses the protentional faults of the Implicit Association Test and the potential dangers of businesses relaying on the test for screen and training purposes; one such concern is its lack of replicability which is the ability to take the test multiple times and maintain the same results (Edmonds, 2017). For example, a person who had just eating may have more favourable results because they are simply paying more attention when compared to someone who may have not eating at

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