The first lesson for LPPP 3500 Equity by Design at UVA is an exploration of our Unconscious Bias. Through this lecture, we explore scientific proof of the impact of bias, and apply this to the first phase of design thinking, building empathy.

1. Diversity & Inclusion
Understanding how to be more inclusive.

2. Ground Rules

4. What
happens in…

7. Introductions
• Your name.
• Your hometown.
• Something others are surprised to learn about you.
• Most fun thing you have done in the last month.
• Why you are interested in this class?

8. What is diversity?

9. Unconscious Bias

15. Fill out your DiversityWheel
• Take the next ~5 minutes and complete the wheel.
• Start with the Primary Ring and work outward.
• For theTertiary Ring, complete as many as you can.

16. Diversity Wheel Exercise
• You can start life over and bring one aspect of each ring back.
• Select one of your answers for each ring:
• One Primary
• One Secondary
• OneTertiary
• Share with the group why you made your selection.

17. DiversityWheel Challenge
• If you were to come back in 1950, would your selections change?
• How about 1900?
• What about 1700?
• How has the evolution of society changed or not changed your
answers?

18. Break

19. Racial Unconscious Bias

20. Race, ER’s, and Pain Medication
A review of 139 patient charts with long-bone fractures at UCLA hospital
Emergency Department revealed:
• Patients ages 15 – 55, injured within 6 hours of ER visit, no alcohol involved.
• 55% of Hispanics received no analgesic vs. 26% of non-Hispanic whites.
• Being Hispanic was strongest predictor of no analgesia.
Adjusting for sex, primary language, insurance, occupational injury, time of presentation, total
time in ER, fracture reduction and hospital admission.
Hispanics were 7.5x more likely than non—Hispanic whites to receive no analgesia, after
adjusting for all factors. Why?

21. The Same Study 7 Years Later
• A study at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia compared doctor
responses to white vs. black patients.
• Results showed that 74% of white patients with bone fractures
received pain killers compared to 50% of black patients.
• Doctors race and gender had minimal difference on this outcome.
• Why?

22. Black children are seen as older,
by both citizens and police

23. Black children are seen as more sexually
knowledgeable and less innocent.

24. *Required Iceberg image

25. Stereotypes save time…and lives.
• Throughout human history, we have created stereotypes.
• Experiences shared between people have saved lives:
• Big hairy animal with sharp teeth…
• Run away as fast as you can.
• Which fruits are edible vs poisonous?
• Which mushrooms are safe vs. deadly?

26. Stereotypes also reveal bias.
• BEAGLE Project (Bound Encoding of the Aggregate Language
Environment) contains ~10 million words from a sample of books,TV
news, newspaper and magazine articles, etc.
• Approximately what an average college student has read in their
lifetime.
• An estimate of how often Americans have seen or heard words
paired during their lifetime.

27. Stereotypes

29. Week Three: Harvard’s
Implicit Bias Test

30. “Explicit bias did not predict our
findings, but the effects persisted
while controlling for it.”
J.A. Smith, 2015

31. Gender Based
Unconscious Bias

36. Unconscious Bias in Education

37. The Pygmalion Effect or
Rosenthal Experiment
The phenomenon where higher expectations lead to
an increase in performance.

38. Sprout Video
https://youtu.be/4aN5TbGW5JA

39. The Pygmalion Effect in Education
• Original research focused on an experiment at an elementary school
where students took intelligence pre-tests.
• Researchers then informed the teachers of the names of 20% of the
students in the school who were showing “unusual potential for
intellectual growth”.
• Unknown to the teachers, these students were selected randomly
with no relation to the initial test.
• When tested eight months later, the randomly selected students
who were named for their potential scored significantly higher.

40. Blue Eyes Green Eyes – Jane Elliott
• https://youtu.be/dLAi78hluFc

41. Unconscious Bias in
the Real World

42. Have any of you ever been treated in a way
you didn’t like due to an identity group you
are in? Was that person aware they made
you feel bad?
Can you share this experience?

43. Have you ever had actions or
thoughts, even if only briefly, about
someone that you think reflected
unconscious bias by yourself?

44. Equity by Design
• We all have biases. Experiences learned,
observed, or shared that shape how we
view the world.
• Everyone in this room has their own
unconscious bias. Some we share, some
conflict, others are different.
• This class is designed to deepen your
understanding of your own biases and
to learn how to identify others.
• In order to ”Design for Equity” as social
entrepreneurs, we must define these
areas and learn to overcome them.

45. Week One Assignment
Read:
“Talk to Strangers” by
Malcolm Gladwell –
Part One and Part Two
1
Reflect:
Your takeaways from
the Diversity Wheel
exercise
2
Take:
Class Demographic
Survey
3