The gremlins that strengthen stereotype threat
Instead of an insightful view into the problems of stereotype threat research, I instead found an article that itself is plagued with flaws.
The “fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong” replication fallacy
Last week’s post about the flimsy evidence regarding stereotype threat (and the massive amounts of money wasted chasing stereotype threat effects) was far more popular than I expected. The tweet where I publicized it was my most viewed tweet in over a year, and already it is one my most popular blog posts ever. So,…
The $67.5 million wasted on stereotype threat research
One popular topic in psychology when discussing test performance is the idea of stereotype threat. First proposed by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995, the stereotype threat is phenomenon where a person who belongs to a stereotyped demographic group performs in accordance with the stereotype after being reminded of it. Usually this is suggested…
