In Written in Black and White, selected law firm partners were asked to evaluate a single research memo into which 22 different errors were deliberately inserted - 7 spelling/grammar errors, 6 substantive writing errors, 5 errors in fact, and 4 analytic errors. Half of the partner evaluators were told that the hypothetical associate author was African American and half were told that the author was Caucasian. Sadly, you know whats coming. On a five point scale, reviews for the exact same memo averaged a 3.2 for the “African American” author and 4.1 for the “Caucasian” author. More surprising were the findings of objective criteria such as spelling. The partner evaluators found an average of 2.9 spelling and grammar errors for the Caucasian authors and 5.8 such errors for the African American authors. Overall the memo presumed to have been written by a “Caucasian” was evaluated to be better in regards to the analysis of facts and had substantively fewer critical comments. shenegotiates/blog/2014/4/16/oops-your-implicit-bias-is-showing
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:10:29 +0000
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