Stereotype Threats are Real

Stereotype threat is a threat to someones identity. This threat is not necessarily a direct or violent threat but typically a mental one. It is when a group feels at risk to conform to the stereotype associated with their group. For example shown by Claude Steele, author of "Whistline Vivaldi," women tend to perform academically lesser than their male counterparts when they think that the men always outperform them.

Stereotype threats happen in highly particular environments. Humans tend to naturally divide into groups and when one group feels or portrays to be superior, especially academically, stereotype threats occur. The inferior, afraid of living up to the negative stereotype, tends to disengage with the task at hand and tends to perform weaker than the superior group with higher expected performance.

The threat does appear to be real. The studies that were conducted by Steele and his partner, Aronson, proved this. Steele used race to test. He had a Black group of students and a White group of students take the same test. When the Black students knew the test had to do with race they performed worse than the White students. When the Black students did not know that race mattered they performed equally. As real as this threat is it is even more important that society finds ways to get rid of it. Everyone has the potential to achieve what they desire and they need to know that themselves rather than listen to a society who thinks otherwise for them.

(SAT scores when students know their tested based on stereotype vs. when they do not)
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