CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings April 3, 2015
Shows the way in which people are actually equally qualified can be put in an environment in which the context will do something within them that actually makes them perform less well than they would in another context and this been replicated in scores of studies. It applies not just to members of traditionally disadvantaged groups like women on difficult math test, for example. If you tell them nothing they will do as well as the men. If you remove that stereotype threat by saying, host of the time women dont do as well as men on difficult tasks but thats not true at this particular test the...