Are We Conditioning Our Children to Accept Biases?
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Claims that school textbooks overrepresent women as mothers/housewives and embed victim-blaming language, supported by a simple prototype that performs pronoun counting and basic dependency parsing to identify agents. The tool flags skewed male:female mention ratios in textbook excerpts and detects passive or agent-omitted vignettes that frame victims rather than perpetrators, illustrated with a 2019 survey and a 2016 classroom exam vignette. The prototype works on samples but needs wider evaluation and standardized metrics.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Biases in children's education
- 1:13Gender in textbooks
- 2:20Representation bias defined
- 3:44Gender bias in examples
- 5:29Domestic violence case study
- 7:21Quantifying bias linguistically
- 9:38Conclusion
