2. What is Hidden Bias?
Gender Race
Class
Sexuality Religion
Ethnicity
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Age
Weight
Marital
Status
Disabilities
Education
3. What is Hidden Bias?
Teacher CEO
Nurse
Astronaut Architect
Engineer
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Mechanic Secretary
Lawyer
Judge Scientist
4. What is Hidden Bias?
•Unconscious shortcuts that allow us to
draw quick general conclusions about
our environment and people around us
•Hidden even from ourselves
•Perception and interpretation
•Anchoring
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5. What is Hidden Bias?
•Actions at odds with intent
•Stress, distraction, time pressure
•Rationalize or justification
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6. What is Hidden Bias?
•Part of our evolutionary past?
•Friend or foe?
•Good or bad?
•Different or unfamiliar signals danger
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7. What is Hidden Bias?
Each one of us have HIDDEN BIASES!!!
Having HIDDEN BIASES doesn’t make
us automatically “bad”
It’s bad if we don’t do something about it
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8. What is Hidden Bias?
•Swimming with/against steady current
•Auto-pilot analogy
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9. How Do We Acquire Hidden Biases?
•Early in life
•Exposure to ideas and images
•Peers
•Parents
•Media
•Toys
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17. Women in the Media
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18. •Insidious – exterior
•Eye contact
•Posture
•Facial expression
•Verbal expression
•Warm/cold reception
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When Hidden Bias is Unchecked
19. •Insidious - interior
•Immediate “connection”
•“Hit it off”
•“good fit”
• A younger self
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When Hidden Bias is Unchecked
20. When Hidden Bias is Unchecked
•Pervasive and Insidious
•Client relationship and service
•Case and project assignment
•Recruitment and hiring
•Promotion, talent management, succession
planning
•Performance evaluation and compensation
•Mentoring & sponsorship
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21. What are Examples of Hidden Bias?
•School children as young as 3
•Man and woman in leadership position
•Transgender man and woman
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22. What are Examples of Hidden Bias?
•Resume intake & Hiring
•Academic guidance
•Self-perception
•Selecting Leaders
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23. So What?
•Small and cumulative inequities
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28. How Do We Counter the Effects of Hidden Bias?
•Self-examination
•Self-monitoring
•Bring to light when it happens
•Educate others
•Respect and value differences
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29. How Do We Counter the Effects of Hidden Bias?
•Double check our perceptions, choices,
and actions
•Establish protocols and procedures to
minimize bias
•Be the one who sits with the new kid in
the cafeteria
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30. Resources
• Implicit Association Tests
•Southern Poverty Law Center
•www.tolerance.org/activity/test-yourself-hidden-
bias
• The Hidden Brain
•By Shankar Vedantam
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
•By Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald
• Why So Slow?
•By Virginia Valian
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31. Thank You!
Wei Wei Jeang
Andrews Kurth LLP
1717 Main Street, Suite 3700
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.659.4688
weiweijeang@akllp.com
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