Talk:Stereotype threat

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"Some critics have charged that the studies cannnot fully explain the black-white achievement gap, which emerges before children are aware of cultural stereotypes."

The emphasized part of that sentence needs a citation. I have removed that half of the sentence because (a) I could figure out how to include a fact template in a way that would make it clear which part of the sentence I thought needed a citation and (b) because I think it's controversial enough a claim on its own that it shouldn't be left in without citation. —mako (talk•contribs) 22:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you made the right move here. futurebird 01:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] removed graph/afro template

Yer average wikipedia reader won't understand the graph. The key point is that the black and white students scored equally well before the experimental "threat". If anything, the graph implies that there is no stereotype threat effect on SAT scores outside of the laboratory, but the presentatio makes it look like stereotype threat explains existing differences, which it doesn't.

This page doesnt have anything to do with Africa so i removed the template.

216.254.20.162 02:56, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] interpretations section

I applaud the recent work an an anonymous editor, but I'm trying to NPOV the recent additions somewhat. The recent additions sometimes take it for granted that Steele and Aronson are trying to show that S.T. accounts for overall black-white test gaps. At least some people on the other side of the argument don't think that Steele and Aronson are trying to show this at all, so that aspect of the debate needs to be characterized without taking sides. --Allen 04:35, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Agree. The link to the post article supports the idea that the critics (if they can be called critics) are concerned that people misundersting the implication of ST will think that ST is the entire cause ofr the gap. No one has disputed that it contributes to the gap and no one has suggested that that was the point of the ST studies to show that this was the entire source of the gap. futurebird 16:59, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] removed graph

The effect of Stereotype threat. Data from Linking Stereotype Threat and Anxiety by Jason W. Osborne* North Carolina State University, USA

Why was this removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Futurebird (talk • contribs) 05:11, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. The graph seems like a good idea, but it also looks like it was drawn in ms-paint. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 06:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I've added dozens of images to Wikipedia made in MS Paint that have gone unchallenged and continue to be heavily used. That's not relevant. That said, I think the image could use some work, or at least better explanation of everything and inclusion of the numerical data plotted.

After reading this article, the image makes more sense to me. It essentially shows the same result that the blacks vs. whites graph does. -Theanphibian ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:52, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] separated evidence section

Just wanted to share that I separated the evidence section into gender and race. I moved the alignment of the graphs for more of an appeal as well. I'm currently in an Honors seminar class at NC State and we're working on editing some Wikipedia articles as a project. My interest was stereotype threat and its effect on gender (i.e. women's underachievement in math) so I added some more sources to reference that idea. I didn't edit anything for the race part, all original content is there (but I did move some of it so that it would be all together). This is a great article and great references. Any questions, feel free to ask. comment added by akkuluku —Preceding comment was added at 01:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)