How unethical are you essay
20111057 Jinhyuk Yun
Before I mention about what I felt about this article, I would want to discuss how the behavior of implicit prejudices is developed. When I was young, my parents always stressed the fact that the students who study hard and get good grades grow to be great people; whatever the cases are (being rich, famous, and honorable, etc.) Moreover, most of the television programs showed us good-looking boys, attractive ladies, and well-shaped men. Friends have tended to be nicer to those who are handsome, smart, athletic, or rich. The factors listed above can be categorized in an ENVIRONMENT which has been manipulating us to be biased, explicitly or implicitly. After I read articles, I found out that what articles were all about was quite a shock. I know myself to prefer young to old, rich to poor, and slim to fat; however, I believe myself to behave fairly to everyone. Nevertheless, as I proceeded to read the article, I was wrong. I have tried hard to talk to beautiful girls and ignore not that beautiful ones in a meeting. When an old man approached to me and asked the way, I just said, “I have no idea” despite I knew the place well. This kind of happenings is taking place every day even though I don’t believe them to be biased, and I treat myself to be very ethical and an egalitarian. How fool! Harvard University, thus, devised a test which can let others know how implicitly biased one is. The mechanism is like this; the tested first match a picture of either fat or slender people with the words, obese or slim. Then they are instructed to press a certain key which matches words which give either positive or negative feeling. Then put the pictures and the words together. The tester measures how much time it takes for the tested to match. I tried the IAT (Implicit Association Test) to see how implicitly biased I am. I chose the topic, “Obese” one. Because the test is made in U.S.A. the standard of being fat and slim is quite different from
Before I mention about what I felt about this article, I would want to discuss how the behavior of implicit prejudices is developed. When I was young, my parents always stressed the fact that the students who study hard and get good grades grow to be great people; whatever the cases are (being rich, famous, and honorable, etc.) Moreover, most of the television programs showed us good-looking boys, attractive ladies, and well-shaped men. Friends have tended to be nicer to those who are handsome, smart, athletic, or rich. The factors listed above can be categorized in an ENVIRONMENT which has been manipulating us to be biased, explicitly or implicitly. After I read articles, I found out that what articles were all about was quite a shock. I know myself to prefer young to old, rich to poor, and slim to fat; however, I believe myself to behave fairly to everyone. Nevertheless, as I proceeded to read the article, I was wrong. I have tried hard to talk to beautiful girls and ignore not that beautiful ones in a meeting. When an old man approached to me and asked the way, I just said, “I have no idea” despite I knew the place well. This kind of happenings is taking place every day even though I don’t believe them to be biased, and I treat myself to be very ethical and an egalitarian. How fool! Harvard University, thus, devised a test which can let others know how implicitly biased one is. The mechanism is like this; the tested first match a picture of either fat or slender people with the words, obese or slim. Then they are instructed to press a certain key which matches words which give either positive or negative feeling. Then put the pictures and the words together. The tester measures how much time it takes for the tested to match. I tried the IAT (Implicit Association Test) to see how implicitly biased I am. I chose the topic, “Obese” one. Because the test is made in U.S.A. the standard of being fat and slim is quite different from