The bias of crowds theory treats implicit bias tests as measures of situations more than persons, with most systematic variance in implicit bias being situational and context-dependent.
Evidence
The Bias of Crowds: How Implicit Bias Bridges Personal and Systemic Prejudice (Payne, Vuletich & Lundberg (Psychological Inquiry / Univ. of North Carolina))
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: To what extent does environmental visual adaptation (e.g., living in extreme high- or low-chroma landscapes) shift an individualās implicit cognitive associations between achromatic light and moral valence?; IAT scores fluctuate with oneās current context and are better measures of biases held by places than biases held within minds. ā The Implicit Association Test
Related
- IAT scores fluctuate with oneās current context and are better measures of biases held by places than biases held within minds. (similarity 0.85)
- Implicit associations reflected in the IAT are influenced by societal messages, life experiences, context, and other environmental factors. (similarity 0.84)
- IATs lack psychometric evidence of construct validity; at best 36% of variance in a single IAT may reflect implicit attitudes, and the proportion could be 0. (similarity 0.80)
- Analysis of 4 million IATs (2004-2016) shows American implicit attitudes toward race, skin tone, and sexuality became less biased over time, tracking cultural trends. (similarity 0.79)