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but it shows up in half a second difference.
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Who cares? Well, there's two answers to this.
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One answer is there are times in your life where half a second can matter a lot.
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So, studies with police officers using reaction time
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in split-second choices on who to shoot
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find that your stereotypical attitudes play a huge role in
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who you're likely to shoot
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when they're holding an object in their hand that's unclear.
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Also, more generally,
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it could be that these implicit attitudes play a role in judgment calls.
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In cases where you have a hard decision to make, you know you're not racist.
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You have no explicit racist attitudes, honestly you really don't,