I choose to take the test based on age, for me the introductory questions reminded me of this statement explained briefly in the article. “The very act of taking the tests can force hidden biases into the conscious part of the mind.” Asking the participant how they perceive themselves and if they were aware of any conscious preferences/biases that they might have created a similar situation that psychology calls the framing effect. When a person is presented with a positive or negative situation correlating with differences such as age, they are more likely to take risks when presented with a negative situation than a positive one in which they are more likely to play it safe. I feel that this introduces a new variable in the test that may have been overlooked. Reversing the rules and associated positive/negative words with old/young faces during a categorization task of greater difficulty following a relatively simple one lead to myself feeling more confident in my ability to answer quickly rather than answer consistently. And although my results were relatively similar to my answers to the introductory questions; I can also see how this may create hindsight bias for participants following the test.
“With five percent of the world's population, the US incarcerates 25 percent of the world's prisoners” (Daisy Hudson, Noisey Magazine. 2014). That same year “African Americans constituted 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population, though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately 32% of the US population, they comprised 56% of all incarcerated people in 2015 (NAACP). The prison system in America serves not as a correctional facility, but a container for which black bodies are buried alive. The conditions of which inmates are kept, the disparity in numbers and portrayal of those incarcerated. There is no question that factors such as education, employment, mental and physical health; the lack of access to such resources targets and propels African Americans through the pipeline to prison. In our history, it seems that prison, or largely the criminalization of African Americans, Black men in particularly, has been used as a tactic of oppr...
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