Suppressing one biased practice without structural change simply relocates the bias.

Evidence

This is not to say that any particular bias is necessary to cope with the work. No doubt classes of clients may be treated in markedly different ways if administrators pay enough attention to specific behavior of workers. But without changes in the work structure one ought to expect that biases will soon develop in other areas, or that the old biases will soon emerge in new forms in the absence of considerable vigilance. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1149

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: why ‘bias training’ and rule-tightening fail — bias is a system output, so any single fix just re-emerges elsewhere in the processing apparatus.
• XREF: connects to: Bias elimination requires restructuring the work that makes bias functional. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1148; Prejudice-reduction programs can target structural rather than only individual-level change; Partial debiasing can make bias problem worse by hiding it — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 210

Broader Connections

• Prejudice-reduction programs can target structural rather than only individual-level change #corroborates (0.85)
• Partial debiasing can make bias problem worse by hiding it #expands (0.80) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 210