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“How Stereotypical Of You 🫵 ” “Watch out, that man might try to rob you.” “Why?” “His skin is as dark as night and his pockets look vacant. Even a few crisp dollar bills brought within his vicinity are a death wish and a half.” “Have you even met the guy? Do you even know anything about him to thunder out these bold allegations?” “I know enough just from looking at him.” But the thing is, you don’t. People don’t. And as much as society has tried to squander stereotypes over and over again, one sole factor has kept them planted in our membranes like a tree sprawling out its octopus-legged roots in a lawn of fresh soil. Enter: implicit bias. To keep it brief, implicit bias is a type of subconscious bigotry in which people, using the media and their own personal experiences with the world around them, form biases regarding different groups and elements that can build up over time and stir directed responses which would normally be exempt from their behavior towards peers.  Implicit b...

 No, it's about giving people the education they deserve . Adversity Scores: The Last Ditch Effort to “Achieve” Diversity The age-old question is back once again, but this time it has coiled itself rigidly around the sheath of the blade and is not showing any intention of budging. What is more important for the future of education: competence or inclusivity? Medical programs in schools the likes of UC Davis are leaning heavily towards the latter option, but ever since the Supreme Court passed their Affirmative Action legislature in June of 2023, that goal has been sunken into a ditch and buried under piles and piles of civilian opposition. Until now. Enter: adversity scoring- the last ditch effort from colleges to swerve around the black hole of achieving diversity and tackle the problem through a different lens- one that deals with the how more than the who. Adversity scoring is as simple and unexacting of a process as the name suggests: colleges determine precisely how challengin...