Implicit Biases In Blindspot

In Blindspot we read a lot about biases people have and that many do not even know they have a bias. When Zehr makes this statement in The Little Book of Restorative Justice we can see that he will more than likely have biases. These biases that he has are called implicit biases. Implicit biases are biases people have but they don’t realize that they have a bias. Zehr doesn’t say that he has biases but from taking the IAT test we know that almost everyone has some bias without even knowing it. In our class very few people were in the middle which means that they did not have a preference when we took these tests. I think that it is a good idea for the author to list this background information about himself because it gives us more information to help us get a better understating of what we are reading. This information gives us a better understanding because we can take into account these things while we are reading. With having this

In Blindspot we read and talked a lot about biases and how they could be eliminated and accounted for. In The Little Book of Restorative Justice we know this background information and then we can adjust the way we think about what is being said to help account for any bias that could come up. I think that more authors should provide background information like this in the begging of their text because it can help readers get a better understanding of who you are and then in return could help the read get a clearer message from the reading. Another part that was discussed in Blindspot was how these biases can shape a message and view of how you see other people. This is important to realize because Zehr may say something that about a group of people and you may not agree but we learned that it is OK to have these different opinions because everyone has these different experiences that form our own opinion of who people