Definition: Follows from expectations of success. It is a situation in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group.
- Provide a Human Resource decision that has to be made as an example to the statistical error stereotype threat. Definition is provided above, give an example/scenario.
- Errors typically occur because the data used to make the decision is flawed in some way. What flawed data could lead to the error for this decision?
- Think about what data could be used instead (to avoid stereotype threat)?
- What parameter or statistic will you use to represent the dataset?
- How could this help avoid the error?