So good news. Now that the Department of Justice can't find any evidence that people are acting

according to racist motivations, they will be delving into the unconscious of their employees.

Reuters reported yesterday that more than 33,000 federal agents and prosecutors will receive

training aimed at preventing unconscious bias from influencing their law enforcement decisions,

department officials told Reuters, the bias prevention plans follow a spate of shootings,

they say, of unarmed black men by white police officers.

Of course, there's no evidence that such shootings were driven by race.

In fact, as Professor Peter Moskis of John Jay College found just a few months ago,

white suspects in violent confrontations with the cops are more likely to be shot by police than black suspects.

But implicit bias, that's the new left-wing buzzword. So what is implicit bias? Well, it's bias

you didn't know you had. It's unconscious bias. Now, usually leftists like to try out studies

that suggest that white people and

black people both respond more quickly to word association, picture association matching criminal

words with black faces. These are no implicit association tests. Your friends probably send

them to you on the internet and tell you to take them and look, you're a racist. But those

studies are not particularly reliable. They have a pretty small sample size, and they find no significant correlation between implicit

bias, the stuff the DOJ cares about, and actual behavior in the real world.

Texas A&M psychologist, Professor Hart Blanton, he points out that scores on the implicit association

test, particularly exceeding supposed bias cutoff scores, mean pretty much nothing.

He says there's not a single study, not one, showing that above and below that cutoff,

people differ in any way in their behavior based on that score.

Social psychologist Russell Fasio of Ohio State University, he says, quote, as traditionally

...