Some of the early trainings from the 1970s did focus on stereotypes, which is another way of talking about unconscious biases,

and the idea there was to make people aware of their biases and to allow them to reflect as they're making a decision on whether they might have been biased in the decision.

So what we've seen, unfortunately,

is that as you say, the early versions of anti-stereotype training

and then the more recent versions of implicit bias training

don't seem to change people's implicit bias

or explicit bias by very much.

So sometimes you get a tiny effect after the training but very rarely

has anyone shown anything more than a very small and transient effect.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

It has been a tough few months.

The coronavirus pandemic is still raging and no end is inside.

Our politics seems to have gone haywire.

In Poland, the populist president was re-elected, which puts the country's democracy into real

existential danger over the next three or four years. But there is one very bright spot, which is that I'm more

optimistic at this point than at any moment since November 2016 that Donald Trump will

fail to be reelected. This is a product of two different things.

The first is that Trump has failed to deliver on any of his promises

and does not seem to have any coherent strategy

for this election.

You can see that by the way in which he's

flaming about trying to find a powerful slogan and ultimately apparently over the

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