Games for learning about unconscious bias?

[Lisa Crispin]

Does anyone have games or exercises to help people think about unconscious bias, and how they might learn to think more laterally? For example, that star game when you ask how many points on a star, using a picture that has lots of points if you really look at it carefully, but it's not obvious.

Biases such as confirmational, framing, conformity, availability...

Thanks,

Lisa

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[Yves Hanoulle]

I have been at a powerfull session at SP2007. Given by Rachel Davies en either Duncun Pierce or Dan North./ (No Idea how I can mix these two gentle men, yet at the time I did)

where they asked a lot of questions related to biases

Who thinks she is more then average in her job

Who thinks she is a more then averag driver

etc etc

of course almost everytime, 80% of the hands went up

now this was of course an exceptional crowed, yet 80% of everyone for all these questions nah, not possible.

that session helped me a lot to think about my biases

it was so hard to say: we can't be all above averag, so let's not put myself above average

I also have an exercise where I show a kanban board with posts it's everywere and lots of tags on it

like https://www.flickr.com/photos/yveshanoulle/8719235605/in/album-72157613999698082/

and then asks everyon to write down facts not opinions

when you look carefull most peopel write down opnions (who are biased) 

f ex a fact is: there are 5 green post it's. we have no idea what the colors mean

fact: there are notpost its in the upper right corner.

I have a lot of ideas and biases about that, yete these are not facts

asking a group to write them alone and challenge eachotehr when they presnet to see if they really are facts, is a great exercise

y

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[Lisa Crispin]

Thanks, Yves! Those are both really interesting and revealing activities!

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[Udo Wiegärtner]

I can highly recommend the book "Shift CTRL" by Jessie Shternshus and Mike Bonifer.
It consists of little experiments/games about Un-learning.

https://www.amazon.com/CTRL-SHIFT-Mike-Bonifer/dp/0986296597

Together with Ady Suciu I did a session on Un-learning at Play4Agile 2018 with Experiments from the book. It worked very well.
Here are some of my Tweets with the Visualization from the sessionny
Let me know whether that helps.

Flipcharts: https://twitter.com/udowiegaertner/status/967367512349462528?s=21

Photo Album:
https://twitter.com/udowiegaertner/status/967436712422109184?s=21

Regards from Germany,
Udo

[Lisa Crispin]

Thanks, Udo!

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[Udo Wiegärtner]

Lisa, you can probably ignore my posting. I mixed up "LEARNING about UNconscious“ with „UNLEARNIING“.
Udo

[Lisa Crispin]

I was still happy to see your games - I'm interested in that too!

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Udo Wiegärtner <winsto...@gmail.com> wrote:

Lisa, you can probably ignore my posting. I mixed up "LEARNING about UNconscious“ with „UNLEARNIING“.

Udo

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[Pierre Neis]

Hi, reading this thread I was thinking that maybe this game could help you.

Developed by Dov Tsal

“good & bad emotions »

Need at least 10 people (no high limit ) and a space they can walk in and mingle.
1. Start by explaining we want to measure how fast positive and negative emotions spread in a group, hence the name of the game: Contamination.
2. Stat with negative emotion.
3. Ask everybody to stand in the room spread up, so you could pass between
4. Explain: you will all close your eyes and I'll pass between you and tap someone twice on the right shoulder, that person will be the 0-generation carrier. (S)he should think of a special distinct facial expression to spread bad emotion (tongue out, sad grimace, etc. Up to them), then you start moving in the room like a cocktail party, only in silence and look each other in the eyes.
The person's role is to contaminate people with bad emotion by looking at someone and making the gesture. Once you saw it you are contaminated too and use your gesture.
4.1 ask everyone to close their eyes, pass between them while talking. DO NOT TAP ANYONE ON THE SHOULDER.
Start the timer, go.

5. From time to time ask everyone to pause (pause the clock if you are serious) close their eyes, and raise their hand, so you can count how many are contaminated. (Don't share this info, you can say stuff like "WOW!"
6. Once everyone is contaminated, repeat with a positive emotion.
7. Now comes the nice

A. Share results.
B. Ask everyone to point to their first contaminator and observe, then to the second one and observe.
C. Ask the two people you tapped on the shoulder to step up, no one will come since you didn't touch anyone.

Game is about self-fulfilling prophecy of the other's behavior.

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[Lisa Crispin]

Thanks, Pierre.

I'm not sure if I understand. So you explain all this, but you NEVER tap anyone on the shoulder, so nobody is really contaminated? So why would they think they are- because of the eye contact with the facial expression?

Thanks,

Lisa

[Pierre Neis]

Indeed, you never tap of the shoulder but you will discover that you will have a dissemination based on beliefs and misinterpretations.

Unconscious bias are revealed here : participants are believing that someone touched their shoulder.

Dov didn’t analysed why, he just make bias visible.

Feel free to dive deeper and share how you proceed.

I make Dov in CC for further questions I couldn’t answer.

 

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[Arne Åhlander]

My take on this game was that participants do not necessary believe that they were tapped on the shoulder. They will however expect others to be contaminated and thus look for signals. Any signal will do and there we go.

Not sure if it makes sense. But hopefully.

Regards,

Arne

[Lisa Crispin]

Thank you Arne and Pierre, it will be fun to try!

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[Ruud Rietveld]

A very simple exercise is to get groups of seven people to -silently- write down seven words they relate to 'holiday'. Then ask them to count how many words they have in common. Some people will find it very weird that eg. the word 'Beach' gets so little mention...

Another one:

Be careful not to make the group aware that they should be paying close attention to facts. Tell the people a story, and afterwards ask them closed questions about this story. Make sure that all of the questions should be answered negatively when you scrutinise the story you told. People fill in all the blank spots in your story based on their own experiences, and will answer some questions positively. I have a sample story and questions, but they are on paper and in Dutch and I do not have the time to type it in right now. I could do that if you want.

unconscious bias is interesting stuff!

Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 21:25:40 UTC+2 schreef Lisa:

[Lisa Crispin]

Thanks, Ruud, that reminds me that Emma Armstrong did a similar type of exercise when she and I were doing communication workshops - "The Witches of Glum from Glasstap". It's quite revealing of bias, now that I think about it! You read the passage and then make statements which people should say are true or false. They say "true" to "the king is old" when in fact all we know is the king is in a wheelchair. That sort  of thing. Thanks for reminding me of that!

-- Lisa

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