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Men are "scientific," women are "lovely" and underrepresented minorites are "pleasant" and "nice." If those sound like stereotypes, they are. But they're also words commonly used to evaluate medical students, a study finds.
Analysis of nearly 88,000 evaluations of third-year medical students written from 2006 to 2015 revealed evidence of implicit bias. White women and underrepresented minority groups were more often described by words about their personalities, while men were evaluated with more words describing their competancy.
The results, published online April 16 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, give "a good idea of what kind of words are being used," says Carol Isaac, an education researcher at Mercer University in Atlanta not involved in the study.
Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/medical-student-evaluations-skewed-race-gender-biases
(Score: 5, Insightful) by darkfeline on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:42AM (1 child)
Maybe there shouldn't be a quota then, so evaluators don't need to find something positive to say.
I don't know if the medical community has such quotas, but I have seen this anecdotally in education and the tech industry, where there are diversity quotas (not officially, of course, that is usually illegal). You need to pump up your numbers, but you can't outright lie and say someone has achieved A, B, and C when they have not. So you use soft attributes in evaluations, because people generally are "pleasant" or "nice" so you can use them even if there's nothing concrete to praise someone with.
If you've gotten this far, note that I'm not asserting that this is happening in the medical community, but that's what it smells like from personal experience.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @04:39PM
exactly. these propagandists are trying to act like these affirmative action class passers are being mistreated. yeah, fucking right. they are probably overwhelminglyt half ass motherfuckers b/c they've been getting shuiffled through school without merit their whole "victimized" lives. these are the types of people who graduate with degrees who can't even speak english, and i'm not talking about ESL people either.