“I got better” — Monty Python & the Holy Grail. […]

“I got better” — Monty Python & the Holy Grail.
Good news in Banaji’s latest work, with data from 4.4 million people. Unconscious bias (especially racism and homophobia) have declined over the past decade. Some thought these implicit biases might be largely immutable, regardless of conscious efforts to overcome. The obesity bias is the one that worsened as an unconscious bias.

But, if you look at the bottom chart, at conscious/explicit bias, people claim that they are becoming less biased against obesity, but it is also stark how unique the self-reported overt obesity bias is (in orange, higher on the bottom scale than all of the others).

Also, people say they are less ageist, but not much has changed there on unconscious bias. And the biggest disconnect between perceived and unconscious bias is toward the disabled. Relative to other biases, people have the strongest persistent unconscious bias against the disabled, but they believe otherwise.

— from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/implicit-biases-toward-race-and-sexuality-have-decreased/?redirect=1