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Full episode transcription here.

Noelle:  These are things that have been studied, there's a lot of research on bias and just looking at these thought processes that people have that are sometimes hard to explain, right? Sometimes they don't even match what our values are in some of these cases, but aside from the research, I think we have our own personal experiences too-especially when I think about this topic. I have so many stories that come to mind, probably from being married to someone who is not White, but my husband is Dominican and I can think of stories that he has shared with me where he's been told, you speak so well I forget that you're Spanish.

Miranda: Oh my God.

Noelle: Or when we moved into our home in a predominantly White neighborhood, he was home and somebody came to sell windows. He opens the door and the person said to him, “Can I speak to the owner of the home?” There’s this automatic assumption that you must not be the person that owns this home. I could sit here and share many stories of things that have happened.

Miranda: And that's where the issue lies.

Noelle: Right.

We’re touching on Similarity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Representativeness Bias in episode 2. We hope you’ll stay, listen and learn with us.

Miranda: Our brains just have a really interesting way of processing to make sense of things. Some food for thought is the Surgeon's Dilemma. Let's see if you can figure it out. A father and son were involved in a car accident in which the father was killed and the son was seriously injured. The father was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident and his body was taken to a local morgue. The son was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital and was immediately wheeled into an operating room. The surgeon was called in and upon entering. and seeing the patient, the surgeon gasped-It's my son! Can you explain this and how could this be? So we got answers like-he was adopted at birth, so it's the boy's real father, the father that died was a priest, so he's just called the Father, but the surgeon was his actual father. A couple of people said the boy had two dads. Even that the boy was kidnapped. I don't know how that makes sense, but you know, the mind made sense of it. What was your answer?

Noelle: I said stepfather.

Miranda: I was a little disappointed in you Noelle

Noelle:: Right? Women can be surgeons!

Noelle: All these different levels of society, we all have to own this. We need to engage in really deliberate thought and consciously enacted policies that will motivate behavior and attitude change in the direction that we want as a society. Humanistic equity. And you know, that's really the direction that we need to go.

Join us for season one as we explore bias, systemic racism, the roots of oppression and barriers found within education and the criminal "justice" system.

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