Saturday, September 29, 2018

Bias

Until the top orchestras in the US started to use blind auditions, it was almost impossible for women to pass them, but adopting the practice immediately increased women’s success rate by 300%.

-- Yuval Atsmon

We need to do more than just acknowledge bias, we need to really think about it.  If we don’t, we likely, at the very least, are perpetuating it.

Is it inate?  Is it cultivated?