A friend of mine once coined the term “spontaneous ubiquity” to describe the phenomenon in which you learn of a new word or concept and, suddenly, it’s everywhere. It was always there, but you didn’t realize it. Once you know about it, though, you can’t help seeing it all around you.
That has been the case for me with unconscious bias. I had always known about bias, but I had never thought about it being baked into our DNA, so much so that most people aren’t even aware they’re basing their decisions on biased judgments. Having been awoken to unconscious bias a few years ago, I now can’t help seeing it everywhere—in the workplace, in the presidential election and, most recently, during the Olympics.
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