hacking in-group bias for fun and profit
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Hacking In-Group Bias for Fun and Profit
About Me Kat Toomajian (MissKat, zarhooie) Dreamwidth Studios, LLC 50-60 active volunteers 2/3rds are women 65% never coded before
Community & Volunteer Support Admin Experience 15+ years Non-Profit 6+ years Non-Profit Management 5+ years OSS with Dreamwidth
Why This Talk General perceptions
Open Source is insular You have to be working on the project to work on the project If you don't do things exactly right, then you'll be eaten alive, possibly without ketchup
We can hack it! Let's use SCIENCE
Science Words: Basics Ingroup vs outgroup
Ingroup = us Outgroup = them
Ingroup bias Preferential treatment
Ingroup favoritism Outgroup derogation
Science Words: Advanced Minimal Group Paradigm
Dividing into groups based on meaningless data points
Science Words: Advanced Action Items
Safe social space Explicit invites Document your culture
Jargon Injokes Etc
Science Words: Advanced Intergroup Aggression
We do THIS, they do THAT Action Items
Communicate Find commonalities
Science Words: Advanced Outgroup Homogeneity
We are all different, but they are all the same Owngroup = individuals
Science Words: Advanced “Ultimately, many forms of discrimination and bias may develop not because outgroups are hated, but because positive emotions such as admiration, sympathy, and trust are reserved for the ingroup." Marilyn Brewer (1999, p. 438)
Science Words: Advanced Outgroup Homogeneity
We are all different, but they are all the same Owngroup = individuals Action items
Check your language Unpack that backpack
Science Words: Advanced Impostor Syndrome, Cognitive Bias, and You
Your contributor's negative self-esteem can and will affect your project
Science Words: Advanced Low self-esteem subjects rated both the ingroup and the outgroup more negatively than did high self-esteem subjects. (Jennifer Crocker and Ian Schwartz, Prejudice and Ingroup Favoritism in a Minimal Intergroup Situation: Effects of Self-Esteem December 1985 11: 37)
Science Words: Advanced Impostor Syndrome, Cognitive Bias, and You
Your contributor's negative self-esteem can and will affect your project Action Items
Identify 3-2-1
3 things you like, 2 you don't, 1 you'll work to fix Cultural shift
Other Cool Stuff Women stick together
Othering Common “enemy”?
REPRESENTATION
Q&A and Discussion