The Blue Eyes Brown Eyes Exercise
June 13th, 2005 by Will
The Blue Eyes Brown Eyes Exercise is a very interesting exploration of racism, but I don’t entirely believe everything (and not just because as we all know it’s the people with blue eyes who are superior).
Dyslexic kids suddenly gaining markedly improved reading skills because of a one day change of expectations? Adults, who have to see what the point of the exercise is in advance, actually mirroring racist behaviors?
I don’t know, it just sounds like experimenter bias coloring anecdotal results to me. I would really like to see it in action though because it sounds fascinating.