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by aoeusnth1 3240 days ago
And the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Do you know if there's any evidence that affirmative action would increase, or decrease our biases? I would expect them to increase them:

1. Our brains constantly build models of the world without us asking them to. They will pattern-match regardless of the PC-status of the patterns.

2. Affirmative action reduces the average quality of marginalized groups within an institution by design.

3. from (1) and (2) we should expect implicit bias to increase, barring opposing pressure from implicit bias education - which evidence shows doesn't work (google it).