Services (without charge) for discovering and reflecting on implicit bias

As research has long shown, there are implicit biases and this maintains inequality in society. However, the knowledge is controversial because it also means that we would all need to re-evaluate ourselves and the contexts in which we operate. We need to ask ourselves whether our own actions contribute to or reduce inequality in society. We also need to train ourselves to see inequality and what contributes to it based on what meets us in society.

We may not want to believe it, but we are all born and raised with inequality around us. It is very easy to accept that society as it looks right now is a normal situation - where there is no inequality. Many of us can react very strongly to claims that there is inequality.

You can draw parallels to how it can feel like the ground sways under you when you get off a boat after being out on the open sea for several days. Even though it is the boat that has rocked, we have got used to it so that we believe that it is the ground that rocks under us when we go ashore. By training ourselves in discovering our own implicit biases, we can make a difference and help dismantle what prevents our fellow human beings from reaching their potential. To put ourselves in front of the mirror and ask ourselves if we have implicit biases about others that could be wrong, if we act on the basis of such biases, if we can accept that we do not have all the knowledge and that we only see the world from our own perspectives.

Here we have gathered some services without charge to be able to reflect on how we ourselves react in different respects and in that way also reflect on whether we ourselves have any implicit biases that risk making us make irrational decisions about others:

Project implicit (Harvard)

HimToHer Initiative: Test of implicit bias in a Swedish language model (machine learning)

HimToHer Initiative: What if it had been the other way around?