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Go beyond bias training

Ambiguity in expectations and evaluations harms progress, say Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton and colleagues.
  1. Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

    1. Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton is professor of psychology and executive associate dean of diversity and inclusion at the University of California, Berkeley.

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  2. Colette Patt

    1. Colette Patt is assistant dean in the mathematical- and physical-sciences division at the University of California, Berkeley.

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  3. Mark Richards

    1. Mark Richards is professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

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One morning in February 1934, the police showed up at J. Robert Oppenheimer’s home in Berkeley, California, to ask why he had left his date in a car by herself all night. Oppenheimer explained that he had gone for a stroll, got lost in his thoughts and walked home, forgetting his car and companion.

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Nature 557, 299-301 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05144-7

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