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Implicit Bias: How Default Assumptions Hurt Science, Skew Journalism and Send Innocent People to Jail

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A panel of experts from diverse fields will explore how the assumptions we don’t know we make lead to unconscious racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination—and as a result severely damage careers, scientific progress, the arts and justice. Panelists will include writer/actor and “recovering mathematician” Gioia De Cari; director, producer and writer Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, whose film Blowin’ the Roof Off Women Horn Players explored gender bias in jazz; Carol Tavris, author of The Mismeasure of Woman and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me); Jody Armour, the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at USC and author of Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America; and USC Annenberg professor K.C. Cole. The discussion will be presented in conjunction with De Cari’s performance, Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze, on March 12.

Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - 240

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Visions and Voices