INTERVENTION:
In the discussion with two experts, they all agreed with that my previous intervention idea could only be regarded as a trigger to let participants be aware of their bias but can’t be a proper tool to restrain the bias, which must be more in-depth and relevant to participants’ personal emotions. Also, as a game, it has limited effectiveness period. It may won’t work to stimulate any changes of participants’ cognition.
As I have talked with Zuleika, she suggests me to create a proper criteria of judgement. The standard of ‘bad’ or ‘good’ can not be decided by me so easily. The evidence needs to be more valid. And judgement would better be more precise and targeted. She also suggests me to narrow down the range of bias I am going to intervene.
As I want my intervention be more specific and detailed, and there needs to be a proper judgment criteria, I have redesigned the process as a story with special scenario. The beginning of the story could be a girl/boy looking for a foster parent. And after moving to another city, you will have a chance to choose a neighbor to become your best friend, who would you choose? A good looking serial killer or a miserable lesbian? Different decisions would lead to different roads of life. Also, you can try to pick the one you dislike the most and see how dramatic the comparison in the end would be. After each choice, there will be options of each person’s feature details waiting for you to choose. Photos are the only evidence. And to simplify the process, there would be codes to represent each option. After filling the whole life story, I would like to post the reasons online and see if others have counter- examples. Letting people share their stories and engaging with others’ prospectives can expand the group of participants and reinforce cognition. Meanwhile, as we are not only judging people by their looks, the intervention also could be run in other ways. For instance, evidence can be changed to voice, which also usually causes biases in our life.
I firstly thought of making a powerpoint file. But it is really unhandy. So I started to think of creating a website for participants to take part in. I found my friend who’s an expert of making web and ask him for help. He was going to create a web based on the pages I designed in ppt.
Ideally, I hope I could create a special website and share it online for people who would like to participate in this intervention. When participants click the button of their choice of reasons, the codes and his contact information would be automatically sent to my email. But It seems like too expensive and complicated to do so. So I had my friend who helped to create a static website. But there will be several defects. For instances, the data couldn’t be collected and participants need to send emails to me on their won initiative.
I invited some of my friends and volunteers who would like to take part in from. I posted their result and choice on instagram and seek for counter- examples from my followers. There is an example that really impresses me. The participant has chosen a guy who she assumed that would be a good foster father. And the reason was that he was white and well-dressed. I have got some responses online. A girl told me a story about his cousin-in-law, who was a successful lawyer and father of two kids. He was found a violent pedophilia after divorced with his wife.