Unconscious Bias is where you think racist thoughts but you don't even know you're thinking racist thoughts. These racist thoughts can only be detected through unconscious bias testing.
What if the people who came up with the test had unconscious bias? What if what really turns us off isn't race, but is odor or accents or vocabulary?
Unconscious bias test 1: All other things being equal, are you more likely to hire a person with a 3,000 word vocabulary or someone with a 20,000 word vocabulary?
Unconscious bias test 2: All other things being equal, are you more likely to hire a person with a Hungarian accent so thick that you can only make out 3 words in 10 or someone with one of those lovely, French-influenced, West African accents and perfect diction?
Unconscious bias test 3: All other things being equal, are you more likely to hire a person who smells like the underside of a swamp mangrove or someone who is clean and fresh?
By the way, no matter how you answered any of those questions, you're still a bigot.
But then you knew that already.
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