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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 06 2019, @08:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-skewered dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:19PM (#840208)

    I don't mean this article or the issue about this, but rather that this observation itself could be a product of political correctness. Imagine there is a minority or female that you do not believe is performing as well as other individuals, yet you simultaneously also believe is 'really trying.' I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that people may be inclined to offer these sort of individuals more leeway, whereas they might hold e.g. a white male to a stricter standard of ability. And this leeway could come in speaking of characteristics outside their core competence. The net result of this would be exactly what you see observed. Perhaps one testable notion here (for somebody who feels like sci-hubbing the article) would be whether or not Indian men were also relatively less frequently referenced by personality characteristics. The point there being that Indian men are also substantially over represented in the medical profession and so people might feel less obligated to coddle them.