But even if you try hard to avoid stereotyping, you still harbor unconscious biases and predilections. You can’t escape being a child of your culture and upbringing, soaking up implicit judgments from fairy tales and myths, from books, movies, and games, from your parents, playmates, teachers, and contemporaries. If you don’t believe me, just take an implicit association test (I recommend the Harvard one, which you can find online), in which you answer a bunch of questions as quickly as you can. The test measures, in an indirect, oblique manner that is resistant to manipulation or lying, the
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