Higher Education: Junk Science & Hard Left Turn

Last year, scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Vir­ginia, and Harvard — including one of the IAT’s three creators — examined 499 studies conducted over 20 years and found “little evidence that changes in implicit bias mediate changes in explicit bias or behavior.” One of the researchers told the Chronicle of Higher Education, “There’s not necessarily strong evidence for the conclusions people have drawn.”