> For example, our "rational brain" tells us that racism is bad, but our "lizard brain" is still going to fail the implicit bias test every time.
This is not true. People vary in how much they are biased about race. I normally think of myself as fairly free for innate racism (largely because my early schooling was very multicultural). When I took a light-dark skinned association test, I go a neutral result.
Though to be clear, I don't think I am free from such innate biases in general, but I am fairly unbiased from on race.
> Even if you believe that you can consistently override your bias, surely you don't expect that the average person could.
I don't expect people to completely override their biases, but I do expect that people could mostly eliminate bias for important decisions (hiring, court, etc).
This is not true. People vary in how much they are biased about race. I normally think of myself as fairly free for innate racism (largely because my early schooling was very multicultural). When I took a light-dark skinned association test, I go a neutral result.
Though to be clear, I don't think I am free from such innate biases in general, but I am fairly unbiased from on race.
> Even if you believe that you can consistently override your bias, surely you don't expect that the average person could.
I don't expect people to completely override their biases, but I do expect that people could mostly eliminate bias for important decisions (hiring, court, etc).