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Flat White

No basis in bias science

13 September 2018

12:34 PM

13 September 2018

12:34 PM

News that the Australian Taxation Office has been running unconscious bias training courses raises the question: why are taxpayers footing the bill for a potentially flawed psychological test?

The course uses the Harvard Implicit Association Test, which employs image and word association to determine the level of ‘unconscious bias’ an individual has towards those of a different race, sex, and so on.

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