Medical student evaluations appear riddled with racial and gender biases
Men are described as ‘scientific,’ while women are ‘fabulous’ and minorities ‘pleasant’
PUT INTO WORDS Women and minority students are more frequently described by personality in medical school evaluations, while assessments of men focus on skills, revealing implicit bias in the assessments, researchers say.
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Men are “scientific,” women are “lovely” and underrepresented minorites are “pleasant” and “nice.”