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   Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:42:11 JST Alfie Kohn

   Fascinating study: Lower social-class university students (& other adults) do worse than their higher-class counterparts on a reasoning task only when they've been led to focus on outperforming others. Competition, in other words, exacerbates social inequality: https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2019-10560-001

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:44:51 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @alfiekohn That sounds somewhat similar to the finding that black people do worse than white people on IQ tests when they are told before that black people do worse or that the test will be used to determine if black or white participants do better/worse. Also a kind of competitive.