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The part that confused me the most, as someone who has never done research science, was how the questions were casually categorized as gender, ethnicity or no-identity salient.

If someone is from Brazil and is of second or third generation Japanese descent, how much of the questions are 'salient' to Brazilian identity vs Japanese? There's an unspoken implication that part of the 'good at math' stereotype relies to some degree on speaking a non-English language at home, which I don't think is a safe assumption at all.

> In the Asian identity-salient condition, participants (n = 16) were asked (a) whether their parents or grandparents spoke any languages other than English, (b) what languages they knew, (c) what languages they spoke at home, (d) what opportunities they had to speak other languages on campus, (c) what percentage of these opportunities were found in their residence halls, and (f) how many generations of their family had lived in America.

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But this would bias results towards zero, no?