When studying the reason for affirmative action researchers found that black and white people scored the same when given a complex series of “puzzles”, but only the black score fell dramatically when told the “puzzles” tested for intelligence

“When Jad and Robert saw this article about a study that found a link between President Obama’s election, and the test scores of African Americans, it made them think about an earlier study by Claude Steele,about a psychological effect called “”stereotype threat.””

On this podcast, they’ll tell us about that and answer some listener mail (in the aggregate) answering questions aboutPatient X and questionable Jad’s use of the term ‘bitches’ in the Choice episode.”