On the Continued Misinterpretation of Stereotype Threat as Accounting for Black-White Differences on Cognitive Tests
Steele and Aronson (1995) showed that stereotype threat affects the test performance of stereotyped groups. A careful reading shows that threat affects test performance but does not eliminate Black–White mean score gaps. Sackett et al. (2004) reviewed characterization of this research in sc...
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| description | Steele and Aronson (1995) showed that stereotype threat affects the test performance of stereotyped groups. A careful reading shows that threat affects test performance but does not eliminate Black–White mean score gaps. Sackett et al. (2004) reviewed characterization of this research in scholarly articles, textbooks, and popular press, and found that many mistakenly inferred that removing stereotype threats eliminated the Black– White performance gap. We examined whether the rate of mischaracterization of Steele and Aronson had decreased in the 15 years since Sackett et al. highlighted the common misinterpretation. We found that the misinterpretation rate dropped from 90.9% to 62.8% in journal articles and from 55.6% to 41.18% in textbooks, though this is only statistically significant in journal articles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-15363f156caa440f992a1acd917dcf642022-12-21T23:54:30ZengInternational Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC)Personnel Assessment and Decisions2377-88222022-03-018110.25035/pad.2022.01.001On the Continued Misinterpretation of Stereotype Threat as Accounting for Black-White Differences on Cognitive TestsDana TomehPaul Sackett Steele and Aronson (1995) showed that stereotype threat affects the test performance of stereotyped groups. A careful reading shows that threat affects test performance but does not eliminate Black–White mean score gaps. Sackett et al. (2004) reviewed characterization of this research in scholarly articles, textbooks, and popular press, and found that many mistakenly inferred that removing stereotype threats eliminated the Black– White performance gap. We examined whether the rate of mischaracterization of Steele and Aronson had decreased in the 15 years since Sackett et al. highlighted the common misinterpretation. We found that the misinterpretation rate dropped from 90.9% to 62.8% in journal articles and from 55.6% to 41.18% in textbooks, though this is only statistically significant in journal articles.https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/pad/vol8/iss1/1/ |
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| title | On the Continued Misinterpretation of Stereotype Threat as Accounting for Black-White Differences on Cognitive Tests |
| title_full | On the Continued Misinterpretation of Stereotype Threat as Accounting for Black-White Differences on Cognitive Tests |
| title_fullStr | On the Continued Misinterpretation of Stereotype Threat as Accounting for Black-White Differences on Cognitive Tests |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Continued Misinterpretation of Stereotype Threat as Accounting for Black-White Differences on Cognitive Tests |
| title_short | On the Continued Misinterpretation of Stereotype Threat as Accounting for Black-White Differences on Cognitive Tests |
| title_sort | on the continued misinterpretation of stereotype threat as accounting for black white differences on cognitive tests |
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