tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374266320411149509.post8414053038152815000..comments2024-03-25T10:22:36.277-04:00Comments on Women In Astronomy: Avoiding (Unconscious?) Profiling and Microaggressions in Student AssessmentAmanpreet Kaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08734178178113146899noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374266320411149509.post-85095623298180743262016-08-12T16:46:58.350-04:002016-08-12T16:46:58.350-04:00Some of these WIA posts expose an utter lack of un...Some of these WIA posts expose an utter lack of understanding of the lives of American students today is US higher education.<br /><br />"It turned out that his laptop was part of a computer sharing program supported by my institution, designed to insure that all students have access to the resources they need for their school work. That other, electronic name belonged to the previous owner of the computer"<br /><br />Though this (ostensibly) happened at a Canadian university(?), the sentiment below still applies:<br /><br />Did you know that around 72% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck? And that in 2015, over 70% of US college students had to have part-time jobs to attend university? That many (lower-income) US students are able to go to university via scholarships given on the basis of athletic prowess? <br /><br />Yet, the assumption here seems to be that all students naturally who have a laptop with a licensed version of Microsoft Word. Based on my reading of this case, (and I don't mean this to be ad hominem or a personal attack towards Prof. Haggard---I notice this in many WIA posts) in terms of "unconscious bias", the glaring problem seems to be that Prof. Haggard is an upper-middle class American who grew up in the 1990s, and has no idea how fucked up the lives of her students in 2016 are. <br /><br />Naturally, there's a discussion to be had here about race. But my reaction upon reading this article is "You were picking up the poor kid! That's your bias!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com