they're rubbish at noticing how many legs they havecartesiandaemonJanuary 11 2017, 13:53:16 UTC
I did wonder, if anyone said, "they're all human", the experimenter would have said, "yes, well done, good guess" and stopped, or gone on till they guessed "white".
I'm a bit torn, because it really really is a very big problem that people treat what's common as an unmarked default, and it does cause problems in all sorts of ways. But if some people genuinely ARE in a majority, it IS much less notable if you see three of them at once.
It's more blatant when a privileged group is thought of as unmarked default when they're NOT in a majority.
RE: Re: they're rubbish at noticing how many legs they havecartesiandaemonJanuary 11 2017, 14:56:20 UTC
Indeed.
Although I remember from similar experiments (eg. assuming the race of a doctor when you're only told they're a doctor, etc), people who are not white usually having the same assumptions as white people, but not quite as strong, so while I can't know, I would guess something similar would happen here.
I'm a bit torn, because it really really is a very big problem that people treat what's common as an unmarked default, and it does cause problems in all sorts of ways. But if some people genuinely ARE in a majority, it IS much less notable if you see three of them at once.
It's more blatant when a privileged group is thought of as unmarked default when they're NOT in a majority.
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Although I remember from similar experiments (eg. assuming the race of a doctor when you're only told they're a doctor, etc), people who are not white usually having the same assumptions as white people, but not quite as strong, so while I can't know, I would guess something similar would happen here.
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