The End of Bias A Beginning, Jessica Nordell
The End of Bias A Beginning, Jessica Nordell
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The End of Bias: A Beginning
The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Author: Jessica Nordell

Narrator: Jessica Nordell

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/21/2021


Synopsis

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, AARP, GREATER GOOD, AND INC.

The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.

Unconscious bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. We know that it exists, to corrosive and even lethal effect. We see it in medicine, the workplace, education, policing, and beyond. But when it comes to uprooting our prejudices, we still have far to go. With nuance, compassion, and ten years' immersion in the topic, Jessica Nordell weaves gripping stories with scientific research to reveal how minds, hearts, and behaviors change. She scrutinizes diversity training, deployed across the land as a corrective but with inconsistent results. She explores what works and why: the diagnostic checklist used by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital that eliminated disparate treatment of men and women; the preschool in Sweden where teachers found ingenious ways to uproot gender stereotyping; the police unit in Oregon where the practice of mindfulness and specialized training has coincided with a startling drop in the use of force. Captivating, direct, and transformative, The End of Bias: A Beginning brings good news. Biased behavior can change; the approaches outlined here show how we can begin to remake ourselves and our world.

A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books

About Jessica Nordell

Jessica Nordell is a science and culture journalist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Republic, and many other publications. A former writer for public radio and producer for American Public Media, she graduated from Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The End of Bias: A Beginning is her first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on December 31, 2022

What a book to end the year on! This book is skillfully written, powerful, and important. It is meticulously researched with sixty pages of citations. Author Jessica Nordell walks us through how bias works, how it can be changed, and how to make it last. While she has a scientific mind and supports......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on September 22, 2021

The End of Bias is a fascinating, comprehensive look at the way in which unconscious bias impacts our thought processes and pervades every aspect of human life in relation to several variables including race, religion, disability and gender identity, to name a few. But it is also a transformative, g......more

Goodreads review by Read By Kyle on October 05, 2021

I am quite interested in bias studies. I read Jennifer Eberhardt's great book Biased last year (which Nordell references several times) and was really happy to have discovered an in-depth look at something that has seemed obvious to me all my life but that many people seemingly just don't grasp- we......more

Goodreads review by pugs on November 08, 2021

'the end of bias' was better than expected in some regards, it wasn’t just a rehashing of books like ‘the new jim crow’ or ‘pushout,’ rather a look at how biases are attempted to be weeded out within the confines of an oppressive system—reform, not revolution. ideas like abolition are mentioned, but......more

Goodreads review by Karen on June 14, 2023

Where do I begin as a reviewer – as a person who cares about our world – who knows that as readers – taking the time to read my review – I sense you care, too? The author goes through great efforts to help readers understand unconscious bias (or explicit bias). Which could be defined as prejudice or......more