Evidence is mixed on whether anti-bias trainings change behavior at all

Evidence

The research on effects of “anti-bias trainings,” generally speaking, reveals contrasting effects. Some researchers have found evidence of largely positive impact on participants’ attitudes, knowledge, and/or behavior toward culturally and linguistically diverse people (Bezrukova et al., 2016), but other researchers have identified a general trend of little or even negative impact (Kulik & Roberson, 2008), and still others assert that overall weaknesses in internal and external validity mean that no conclusions about the impact or lack of impact can be drawn (Paluck & Green, 2009). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1414

Categorization

• SEED: A skeptical piece on diversity/anti-bias training effectiveness, contrasting the ‘feel-good’ workshop boom with weak validity evidence.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-bias training works only when it solves frontline work problems — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 845