Lee Jussim
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And that's an important limitation that your listeners, viewers should understand. It's not like we evaluated the effectiveness of the DEI training program instituted by the HR department of the city of Milwaukee. We didn't do that. We took the intellectual ideas from three different kinds of sources.
And that's an important limitation that your listeners, viewers should understand. It's not like we evaluated the effectiveness of the DEI training program instituted by the HR department of the city of Milwaukee. We didn't do that. We took the intellectual ideas from three different kinds of sources.
Anti-racism rhetoric, anti-Islamophobia rhetoric, and anti-caste, the Hindu caste system, anti-caste oppression rhetoric. And there are For race, we used passages from Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist and from D'Angelo's White Fragility. These books were widely required for our colleges. You know, sometimes she's paid $40,000 a session to come in and give her training. So...
Anti-racism rhetoric, anti-Islamophobia rhetoric, and anti-caste, the Hindu caste system, anti-caste oppression rhetoric. And there are For race, we used passages from Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist and from D'Angelo's White Fragility. These books were widely required for our colleges. You know, sometimes she's paid $40,000 a session to come in and give her training. So...
Anti-racism rhetoric, anti-Islamophobia rhetoric, and anti-caste, the Hindu caste system, anti-caste oppression rhetoric. And there are For race, we used passages from Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist and from D'Angelo's White Fragility. These books were widely required for our colleges. You know, sometimes she's paid $40,000 a session to come in and give her training. So...
And we also actually used this sort of large language model, this sort of language network analysis to examine the extent to which this type of rhetoric was common throughout the training materials we had access to, and it was very common.
And we also actually used this sort of large language model, this sort of language network analysis to examine the extent to which this type of rhetoric was common throughout the training materials we had access to, and it was very common.
And we also actually used this sort of large language model, this sort of language network analysis to examine the extent to which this type of rhetoric was common throughout the training materials we had access to, and it was very common.
You know what, I have this here. So let me give an example from the race... And this is just a short excerpt. So people would read, so they would read, say, an anti-racist passage or a control passage. The control passage in these studies, in two out of the three, was about how to grow corn on the farm. It was completely separate. And this is only a short excerpt of a longer passage. Yeah, okay.
You know what, I have this here. So let me give an example from the race... And this is just a short excerpt. So people would read, so they would read, say, an anti-racist passage or a control passage. The control passage in these studies, in two out of the three, was about how to grow corn on the farm. It was completely separate. And this is only a short excerpt of a longer passage. Yeah, okay.
You know what, I have this here. So let me give an example from the race... And this is just a short excerpt. So people would read, so they would read, say, an anti-racist passage or a control passage. The control passage in these studies, in two out of the three, was about how to grow corn on the farm. It was completely separate. And this is only a short excerpt of a longer passage. Yeah, okay.
This is the anti-racism. White people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist worldview. Racism is the norm. It is not unusual. It just went on for a full paragraph. And it was quotes smoothed together with a little writing by us of Kendi and D'Angelo.
This is the anti-racism. White people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist worldview. Racism is the norm. It is not unusual. It just went on for a full paragraph. And it was quotes smoothed together with a little writing by us of Kendi and D'Angelo.
This is the anti-racism. White people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist worldview. Racism is the norm. It is not unusual. It just went on for a full paragraph. And it was quotes smoothed together with a little writing by us of Kendi and D'Angelo.
All right. So they then were presented with a very brief scenario in which a college admissions officer interviews an applicant and ultimately the applicant is rejected from admission. That's the whole scenario. The words are slightly different because I'm doing that piece from memory, but that's basically the whole scenario. They were then asked a series of questions
All right. So they then were presented with a very brief scenario in which a college admissions officer interviews an applicant and ultimately the applicant is rejected from admission. That's the whole scenario. The words are slightly different because I'm doing that piece from memory, but that's basically the whole scenario. They were then asked a series of questions
All right. So they then were presented with a very brief scenario in which a college admissions officer interviews an applicant and ultimately the applicant is rejected from admission. That's the whole scenario. The words are slightly different because I'm doing that piece from memory, but that's basically the whole scenario. They were then asked a series of questions
assessing how much perceived racism and bias was... Was the causal factor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On the part of the admissions officer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And what we found is when they got the Kendi D'Angelo essay, they claimed to have seen or observed the admissions officer committing more microaggressions treating the applicant more unfairly, and that the admissions officer was more biased.
assessing how much perceived racism and bias was... Was the causal factor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On the part of the admissions officer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And what we found is when they got the Kendi D'Angelo essay, they claimed to have seen or observed the admissions officer committing more microaggressions treating the applicant more unfairly, and that the admissions officer was more biased.
assessing how much perceived racism and bias was... Was the causal factor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On the part of the admissions officer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And what we found is when they got the Kendi D'Angelo essay, they claimed to have seen or observed the admissions officer committing more microaggressions treating the applicant more unfairly, and that the admissions officer was more biased.