You walk into your classroom, confident to take your math test. As your administrator passes out the exam, they tell you that your race does not typically do well in this area. Would they way you take the test now be different?
Most people in this case would take the test differently, but would not have noticed that they were. Why? In an article by American Journalist, Shankar Vendantam, called "How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance" claims that they phenomenon of a "stereotype threat" impacts a student's performance in academics. A stereotype threat is, "a fear of making a negative stereotype to be true", and Vendantam believes that this is a real issue.
To test this out, my peers and I created a survey in class for MHS students. Out of fifteen students, the majority had voted that Mexicans and Blacks as the two races to be most stereotyped. Another ten out of fifteen students had based someone off of their appearance. While four of fifteen were unsure if they had. This leads me to think that people stereotype without even noticing. This means that when we look at someone, we have preconceived ideas of …show more content…
In a SAT test, Black and Hispanic students underperform by forty points, while females in math had scored twenty points fewer than the men. Recent studies from 2013, made by Katherine Rothgerber and Hank Wolsiefer, had showed that female chess platers performed worse than male players when they were aware they were playing against men. In 1999, Aronson noticed that Asian men out perform white males on a math rest. Annie M. Paul of the New York Times also had recognized that there were few Blacks and Hispanics in colleges, with the same ideas for women in math and
Most people in this case would take the test differently, but would not have noticed that they were. Why? In an article by American Journalist, Shankar Vendantam, called "How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance" claims that they phenomenon of a "stereotype threat" impacts a student's performance in academics. A stereotype threat is, "a fear of making a negative stereotype to be true", and Vendantam believes that this is a real issue.
To test this out, my peers and I created a survey in class for MHS students. Out of fifteen students, the majority had voted that Mexicans and Blacks as the two races to be most stereotyped. Another ten out of fifteen students had based someone off of their appearance. While four of fifteen were unsure if they had. This leads me to think that people stereotype without even noticing. This means that when we look at someone, we have preconceived ideas of …show more content…
In a SAT test, Black and Hispanic students underperform by forty points, while females in math had scored twenty points fewer than the men. Recent studies from 2013, made by Katherine Rothgerber and Hank Wolsiefer, had showed that female chess platers performed worse than male players when they were aware they were playing against men. In 1999, Aronson noticed that Asian men out perform white males on a math rest. Annie M. Paul of the New York Times also had recognized that there were few Blacks and Hispanics in colleges, with the same ideas for women in math and