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Aussie Life

Aussie Language

12 February 2022

9:00 AM

12 February 2022

9:00 AM

I have coined a potentially useful new expression: comatose bias. We are told that one of the great problems in the world today is ‘unconscious bias’, and so I think it’s time to ask: how unconscious? Let’s imagine (difficult though it is) that I am unconsciously biased right now; if I was put into a medically induced coma following an accident would I still be biased? I presume so.

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