The person who went down underneath the table was not the same person who came up.
I saw this experiment in one of my psychology classes in my undergrad. I found it fascinating how little we sometimes notice about the people we are talking to.
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- Oct 2018
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www.facinghistory.org www.facinghistory.org
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Strictly speaking, strictly speaking, there's no outline of anything there
I liked how this example was another way of showing and explaining biases. People make things out of things that aren't there from things they are told. If you are told there is a dog, your brain is going to find a way to see a dog. The same way that if you are told horrible things about someone before you meet them, you are going to start seeing those things and have a bias towards them before even getting to know them.
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So you've got prove everybody wrong versus do the best you can. And the women in the second group not only performed as well as the men, they actually outperformed the men. Whereas the women in the first group actually significantly underperformed. So we can create our own self-fulfilling prophecies. We can actually— by our own expectations, we can impact other people's behavior and see what we're expecting to see.
This reminds me of the growth mindset, thinking you're able to do something and improve upon yourself makes the world of a difference!
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because it looks like it gets smaller as it goes down. But they are in fact the same size. They're the same size. The illusion works
I like this as a different example for biases, that even though the lines are the same, the surroundings make you perceive them differently.
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But if they had thought about it 10 or 15 years before, they probably would have liked to have made more progress than they had done.
This reminded me of the idea of reflection and the importance of reflection as an educator and in the workplace in general.
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It's chicken Kandola.
I liked how he took an uncomfortable situation and put some humour into it while still addressing the fact that they said the wrong name.
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