The Influence of Socioeconomic Class on Evaluations and Biases in Decision-Making

🔍 We often make evaluations and decisions without considering the factors that influence them.

📝 Socioeconomic class can potentially impact evaluations and judgments.

🔬 An experiment by Darlene Gross showed that participants' perceptions of a student's academic ability were influenced by their socioeconomic background.

🔎 Socioeconomic status influenced how Hannah was perceived and impacted her academic placement and other measures.

🤔 Confirmation bias was observed as participants interpreted ambiguous information to confirm their prior beliefs about rich and poor kids.

💼 Confirmation bias can affect various professionals, including financial advisors, doctors, corporate employees, and jurors.

🧠 Our decisions and behavior can be influenced by various biases and heuristics without us realizing.

🌍 Regardless of our expertise or education, we are all susceptible to automatic cognitive processes that affect our decision-making.

🤔 Humans are hardwired to process the world through schemas and shortcuts, which are necessary for navigating the complex world.

🎯 Implicit biases can affect equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts.

⚖️ Equity means providing equal opportunities and resources based on merit.

🧠 Biases and heuristics can hinder fair evaluation and decision making.

🔑 Implicit biases can benefit certain groups and harm others without our realization.

🧠 Decades of research have shown that implicit biases can lead to discrimination based on social categories.

🛡️ Although we are not immune to implicit bias, there are steps we can take to counter their effects.