Identifying race on examinations (Gladwell)
August 27th, 2007 | Published in Psychology, Race, Education, Quotes
When [black college] students were asked to identify their race on a [Graduate Record Examination] pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement — and the number of items they got right was cut in half.
–Malcolm Gladwell, Blink (2005), p. 56