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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

So the study is this place (*.pdf) [fiu.edu], and the article is at Mic≡ [mic.com]. May be of use to some who do not see the racist slant of submissions to SN, and put them on the frontpage, regardless.

According to a recent study, the most racist people among us may also be the most ignorant to their biases. New research published in the academic journal Personality and Individual Differences concludes that the most prejudiced participants in a study evaluating attitudes about bias were also the same people who "overestimated their levels of racial and gender-based egalitarianism." And the implications of claiming your lack of racist or sexist beliefs when your actions and thought patterns prove just the opposite can be hugely dangerous.

The concept to psychologically categorize this lack of self-awareness actually dates back to 1999, with the establishment of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a psychological phenomenon that has made its way back into public discourse 20 years later, at the height of the Trump administration. The effect is, simply, a cognitive bias in which someone cannot accurately assess themselves, and therefore inflates their self-assessments. Sound familiar?

Not going to bother restoring all the hyperlinks, since those who do not know they are racists will probably just reject this article, further confirming its thesis. Oh, the humanity!

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