Timeline for How to avoid supervisors with prejudiced views?
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| Apr 2, 2019 at 1:16 | comment | added | EngrStudent | @jakebeal - some data is better than no data. I find the particular comments to be more informative than general ratings. Getting insight out of data is not always straightforward. Talking with several of their grad students directly however is much more information rich. | |
| Apr 1, 2019 at 3:07 | comment | added | anonymous | @user106152 Then perhaps is your question is "How do I avoid bigots?" as opposed "How to avoid supervisors with prejudiced views?" Everyone holds prejudiced views of some degree of severity and it's more or less intrinsic to how we think about the world. You have to process a lot of information each day all the time so biases, prejudices, etc. are just part of how you process that information. Basically, trying to avoid people on the basis of how they think is futile, trying to avoid people on the basis of how they act is significantly easier. | |
| Apr 1, 2019 at 1:41 | comment | added | jakebeal | "rate your professor" sites are pretty much rubbish, because they have no significant moderation. They're about the level of YouTube comments: there's some signal there, but it's usually buried in noise from individuals with grievances or agendas. | |
| Apr 1, 2019 at 0:19 | comment | added | user106152 | @anonymous I don't think a bigot is just if you have biases. It's also if you think the biases are justified and rational and you make decisions on the biases. | |
| Mar 31, 2019 at 23:29 | comment | added | anonymous | Every court of law says something to the effect "you can't measure the inner workings of the mind". This point really needs to be highlighted and is similar to the point I was going make as well. The whole point of research into things like implicit bais is that everyone has some sort of default bias (usually culturally informed). So you really can't avoid working with someone that has prejudiced views. However, if they keep those views in check and are equitable in their treatment of other's its also kind of a non-issue. | |
| Mar 31, 2019 at 22:39 | history | answered | EngrStudent | CC BY-SA 4.0 |