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Exploring unconscious bias

Exploring unconscious bias

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Exploring unconscious bias

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- So the work that we have been doing on unconscious bias, sometimes people call it implicit bias or cognitive biases, is really helping us to understand what we need to do if we want to create more inclusive environments, which is to actually get out of our self-denial about the fact that our brain is doing stuff and reaching conclusions without telling us. So like I was in a market one night, late at night, and there was another woman in the elevator going down to the grocery market and it was a black woman and she had on scrubs and she was pretty small, much shorter than I am, and I saw her and my first feeling was I love nurses. And I wanted to say that, right? 'Cause a lot of times we say the wrong things and they are supposed to be compliments, right, so? But something in me, because I do this work all the time, I was like, stop it, don't say anything, don't say anything. And then I was like what could you say? If you want to say something nice to this person who you don't know…

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