{"id":45,"date":"2005-12-16T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-16T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T06:15:27","slug":"stereotypes-a-go-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes a go-go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cognitivedaily.com\/?p=138\">Cognitive Daily &#8211; The negative impact of positive stereotypes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three groups of asian women were given math tests to perform. Each of the three group got a different focal questionnaire before, the first focused on the contestant&#8217;s personality, the second on their race the third on their gender. Sounds like a fairy tale? There&#8217;s a reason.<\/p>\n<p>The race group came out doing about 15% worse on the test (the cited article doesn&#8217;t provide statistics to put that difference into perspective, but 15% is big anyway, and if you go to the original paper, you&#8217;ll find it&#8217;s significant at p<0.025. Fair enough.), but the conclusion drawn is ludicrously ill-founded. Rather than conclude, for instance, that bringing up stressful subjects before a test disrupts performance, the performance drop is attributed to racial stereotypes of success and the pressure that puts on asians.\n\nIt&#8217;s called &#8220;pulling causalities out of your ass&#8221;, I believe. Which, ironically, is one of the stereotypes I have of psychology research. It just disrupts my concentration.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive Daily &#8211; The negative impact of positive stereotypes Three groups of asian women were given math tests to perform. Each of the three group got a different focal questionnaire before, the first focused on the contestant&#8217;s personality, the second on their race the third on their gender. Sounds like a fairy tale? There&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-philosophy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}