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Shall we "follow the science"? A short thread of sources on Things That Do Not Work* to Increase Social Justice:
Trigger Warnings
Diversity Trainings
Implicit Bias Trainings.
*=Tests of their effectiveness fail to show any.
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Trigger Warnings Do Not Work.
and likely cause more harm than they prevent (which is not hard, because they prevent hardly any harm).
Diversity Trainings Do Not Work I

(Note: Only showing images of the papers, most can be easily found using Google Scholar).
Implicit Bias Trainings Do Not Work
Implicit Bias Trainings are Useless: An Overview
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
Mandatory Implicit Bias Trainings are so bad that even one of the country's foremost advocates of the concept of implicit bias says "Don't do this."
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
Bonus: Empirical tests of Prejudice Reduction Techniques, Writ Large:
Produce effects shrinking to near 0 effects when tested w/large samples
Are rarely tested in the real world (as opposed to lab)
Rarely test actual behaviors.
To be clear, I generally think "people hating other people for no good reason" is bad and trying to get people to stop hating each other if they have no good reason is a worthwhile endeavor.
That's a big "if" especially if we include "people think they have good reasons." As communicated in the images shown here.

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