Fascinating, frustrating, empowering, all the things - Nordell does an incredible job of presenting a variety of scientific studies and making them accessible and compelling. She not only proves that we have unconscious biases, but goes into details on proven ways we can begin to dismantle and overcome them. Incredibly powerful.

END OF BIAS offers a thorough exploration of bias, sprinkling in some possible strategies to overcome or ‘end’ bias. a solid and well-researched book though not particularly engaging. essentially a synthesis of points that I already knew from more engaging books, but with detailed examples and research to bolster points made. thank you to both Netgalley and the publisher for advanced copies!

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* really great read! can't wait to recommend this for sure, more people need to read this

An interesting look at the pervasiveness of bias and how it affects everyone, even those of us who consciously try not to be biased. This is a great starting place for an important conversation we all need to be having with ourselves.

Jessica Nordell’s book, The End of Bias: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias has to be one of the best non-fiction books that I have read this year. In it, Nordell tackles the bias we see from women in the workplace to racial injustice with the police. It is one of those books that I advise anyone who is looking at their anti-racism to read.

One of the most interesting discussions in the book for me personally is the bias I have felt as a woman worker and now a mother who works. Nordell looks at the way trans women, who are some of the few people to see both sides of the spectrum intimately, are treated before and after coming out. While my heart knows the truth, it was still powerful hearing these women’s stories.

I listened to the audiobook, read by the author herself, and she has a powerful story about a friend of hers who suffered from the plague that is doctors not properly diagnosing women. The candor from Nordell, the raw emotion, as she tells the story so many of us women know so well in some way is gut-wrenching and powerful.

Please read this book. Read it soon. Let’s work on our biases together.

This book is packed full of insightful examples of how bias seeps into day to day encounters with profound impacts ranging from the expected (police violence) to more subtle (gendering in preschool classrooms). There are a lot of great actionable takeaways for organizations and leaders who want to improve the environments they influence. For my local friends, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Nordell was raised in Green Bay and many of her examples resonated personally.

Bonus: The audiobook is read by the author and I could not help but laugh at the thinly veiled disdain she apparently still holds for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ALC.

The End of Bias is a fascinating book that explores human bias from many different perspectives -- psychological, historical, and sociological to name a few. Although the author discusses many academic studies, she does so in a way that is interesting and accessible to people who are not versed in the subject areas. I highly recommend listening to or reading this book.

I am quite interested in bias studies. I read Jennifer Eberhardt's great book Biased last year (which Nordell references several times) and was really happy to have discovered an in-depth look at something that has seemed obvious to me all my life but that many people seemingly just don't grasp- we are all extremely biased., and for the most part, we don't even realize it. Nordell's book explored the topic in a somewhat different lense than Eberhardt, which was great, although they do both dedicate quite a lot of time to police bias (rightfully so).

But The End of Bias combines neuroscience, sociology, psychology, gender studies, explorations on race, mindfulness, history, politics, tech, and pop culture to examine the many different avenues that bias can and does affect every single one of us. Nobody's above the law here: you cannot woke yourself into waking up one day without biases. The best we can do is be aware of how our biases affect us and how we are being affected by bias, and try our best to mitigate it. This is probably the only place where I delve from the author- the book is named The End of Bias, but I don't actually think we CAN end bias. We can hopefully end the way that bias creates large societal blind spots that harm others, but some degree of bias will always remain. Nevertheless, I think it should be our goal to try to reduce and examine our own biases as much as we can. This book is a brilliant starting point for people wanting to learn more about the subject.

I was surprised at the amount of science in this. Studies are referenced quite often, which is always a good sign. There was also a very nuanced chapter about police, which I greatly appreciate. In our current public discourse, police seem to be reduced to "police bad" or "police good" and both of these are ridiculous. Nordell does not give police a free pass in any sense, but she mentions plenty of programs and police officers who are dedicated to changing the way the police operate and see the world. She also shows how officers are primed to expect danger, which can be mitigated in a number of ways. There was a section about a study where cops engaged in mindfulness training that had really interesting results that I hope gets expanded upon.

I would recommend this book to anybody; indeed, I likely will add this to the list of books I recommend regularly. It also gets bonus points for taking time out of its busy schedule to shit all over Twitter, which I didn't think added much to the author's argument, but hey, I am a sucker for hating on Twitter.

The End of Bias a Beginning by Jessica Nordell was such an enlightening audiobook! I love that it was read by the author and felt that really helped to emphasize the main points of the book. This is a book that will stay with me long after listening and has already promoted self reflection and discussions.

I don’t think there are many people who would openly admit to being biased against another group of people. We might think that we’re fair and have no prejudices, but that’s just not how our brains are wired. We all have biases even when we are completely unaware of their existence. The good news is, even though unintentional biases affect everyone, we are not defenseless against them - and that’s exactly what The End of Bias is about. The biases discussed in this book go beyond racial bias (although that kind rightfully takes up a big chunk of the book); Nordell writes also about gender bias and bias against people with disabilities. It’s a fascinating and thought-provoking book that explains in detail where bias comes from, how it influences our behavior, what effects it can have on people on its receiving end, and how we can dismantle it. The things Nordell writes about aren’t strictly academic - there’s a lot of real life examples of how bias works and how becoming aware of it can be life-changing. The example that stayed with me the most was the Community Safety Partnership - a program where a carefully chosen unit of policemen was dedicated to three public housing projects in Watts and another one in East L.A. The way the policemen were supposed to interact with the community was completely different from what we’re used to - they were instructed to shift their focus from arrests to building a relationship with the community. It was put upon those officers to try and rebuild some sort of trust with people who rightfully were very wary of them, in some cases too wary to take part in the program. The results were incredible; arrests have dropped by 50%, extreme use of force by 60%. Of course, by supporting the community by doing all sorts of projects that the community needed (for example, the officers helped people get permits so that they could sell fresh produce in a food desert), the police have taken on a job much better suited to social workers, but the program does show what a difference being mindful and learning about others can make.

The End of Bias is a fantastic, extremely important book that should be mandatory reading for all of us. It shows that while bias is something we all unknowingly struggle with, we all can change and become the unbiased people we imagine ourselves to be.

I both read the ebook and listened to the audiobook and I would recommend both. The narrator is very pleasant to listen to while not being boring.

I really enjoyed listening to this book. I think I would have remembered a lot more if I had read it in written format, because I could have stopped more easily to take notes.

I would recommend this book for someone who has thought a little about Bias, although someone new would get a LOT out of this book as well. There are many, many examples of studies and real-world situations in which Bias has occurred, and it offered a lot of food for thought.

The narrator was also easy to listen to (I do a lot of audiobooks and the narrator definitely can make or break a book).

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of this audiobook. I am a frequent reviewer and book club leader for several clubs.

I love nonfiction audiobooks. @JessicaNordell's new work The End of Bias is so timely. She delves into the stats and the way bias creeps in uninvited and unannounced. Digging deeper than some of her contemporaries who only examine extreme forms, Nordell takes a closer look at the seedlings of habits and stereotypes that breed larger systemic problems. The audiobook version is read by the author with all the insight and impact of hearing her emphasize the elements that stuck out to her most during her years of research. Nordell is also comprehensive: she doesn't just address racism or sexism - she examines bias in all its forms and challenges us to make sure the lens we view people and the world through is as clear as possible, without blemish or tinting from our own experiences. While those of you following me who appreciate and agree with much of my activism will relate and agree to many points within this book, I do believe it's also written in a way that you could gift it to those with less grasp of race, gender and sexuality spectrums and it may break through where prior conversations have not. Read it for yourself and see what I mean.

The End of Bias: A Beginning

The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias, new this week from @macmillanusa - out now in hardback, ebook and digital audio.

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