Biased Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

And this one is by somebody who lives out near you called Jennifer Eberhardt. And it's called Bias. And it's got the statistics.

it's called Bias, and it's got the statistics. So for people who want to know, well, actually how does this skew life in real time in the actual world, here's the book that talks about that.

This one is by somebody who lives out near you called Jennifer Eberhardt and it's called Bias and it's got the statistics.

Uh, the book biased by Jennifer Eberhardt, which I did order. She's from Stanford and I have it and I've been reading it.

And one of the things she says is this whole thing, this MLK thing of not seeing color doesn't work.

So her answer, and I think the answer of a lot of people like Jennifer is focus on it.

Have you read that one?

He wrote a book way back after he left CBS News called bias.

And he was the first one even before me to really pinpoint the trend in American newsrooms on television to the left.

Now he wrote bias, huge bestseller after he left CBS.

But before he left it, CBS News, he wrote an article in a Wall Street Journal pretty much saying that and then took that article and turned it into a book.

i wrote a book years ago called Bias about liberal bias in the media and i hope i i i know i wait got some credibility with you bill and i hope i earned some credibility with the people in your audience because now i'm gonna say that by and large even the liberal media is getting this story right

here's the thing. I wrote a book years ago called bias about liberal bias in the media and I hope, I know I got some credibility with you Bill and I hope I earned some credibility with the people in your audience because now I'm going to say that by and large even the liberal media is getting this story right.

Yeah, when you wrote this book, the world wasn't on fire. At least not as much as it is right now.

I assume you're more busy than usual.

And so they associate, you know, issues of race and inequality, you know, with civil rights, right? But not so much science.

So if you're focused on African Americans, for example, as a cop, as you're trying to solve crime, these are the people you're going to see as suspicious.

Your knowledge of bias doesn't make you immune to it.

When you wrote this book, the world wasn't on fire. At least not as much as it is right now.

Your book starts with kind of a sad story about your own son thinking that this man might rob the plane.

It seems almost impossible that that would have made its way into the mind of a five year old, but that just shows you how pervasive these stereotypes are or is it just what else is kind of going on?

A lot of people are down on the police right now and I don't suppose you've caught that in the news. And the book, again, written several years ago, includes the story of this police officer who accidentally profiles himself.

There was a study that you mentioned in the book about how I'm going to phrase this in a weird way but our brain essentially sort of dulls our response after we see something over and over.

Yeah, when you wrote this book, the world wasn't on fire. At least not as much as it is right now.

Your book starts with kind of a sad story about your own son thinking that this man might rob the plane. Can you take us through that?

And that's how I start the book out because I feel like it's a story that really underscores just how prevalent, you know, bias is and you know, how damaging it can be.

A lot of people are down on the police right now and I don't suppose you've caught that in the news. And the book, again, written several years ago, includes the story of this police officer who accidentally profiles himself.

So we define implicit bias or some people call it unconscious bias as the beliefs and feelings we have about social groups that can influence our decision making in our actions even when we're not aware of it.