Hacking In-Group Bias for Fun and Profit
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This document discusses how to make open source communities more inclusive by addressing unconscious biases. It introduces concepts from social science research like in-group bias, which is the preferential treatment of one's own group, and out-group homogeneity, which is viewing members of outside groups as more similar than members of one's own group. The document provides action items like explicitly inviting diverse contributors and finding commonalities between groups to reduce biases and intergroup aggression. The overall goal is to use insights from social science to create a safer social space and cultural shift within open source.
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Hacking In-Group Bias for Fun and Profit
- 1. Hacking In-Group Bias for Fun and Profit
- 2. 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
- 3. 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 ket We can hack it! Let's use SCIENCE
- 4. Science Words: Basics Ingroup vs outgroup Ingroup = us Outgroup = them Ingroup bias Preferential treatment Ingroup favoritism Outgroup derogation
- 5. Science Words: Advanced Minimal Group Paradigm Dividing into groups based on meaningless data points
- 6. Science Words: Advanced Action Items Safe social space Explicit invites Document your culture Jargon Injokes Etc
- 7. Science Words: Advanced Intergroup Aggression We do THIS, they do THAT Action Items Communicate Find commonalities
- 8. Science Words: Advanced Outgroup Homogeneity We are all different, but they are all the same Owngroup = individuals
- 9. Science Words: Advanced “Ultimately, many forms of discrimination and bias may develop not because outgroup
- 10. 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
- 11. Science Words: Advanced Impostor Syndrome, Cognitive Bias, and You Your contributor's negative self-esteem can and will affect your project
- 12. Science Words: Advanced Low self-esteem subjects rated both the ingroup and the outgroup more negatively tha
- 13. 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
- 14. Other Cool Stuff Women stick together Othering Common “enemy”? REPRESENTATION