Are We All Unconscious Racists?

A deep dive into the science behind implicit bias. "Few academic ideas have been as eagerly absorbed into public discourse in recent years as 'implicit bias.' Embraced by a president, a would-be president, and the nation’s top law-enforcement official, the implicit-bias conceit has launched a movement to remove the concept of individual agency from the law and spawned a multimillion-dollar consulting industry. The statistical basis on which it rests is now crumbling, but don’t expect its influence to wane anytime soon.

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