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Table 2 Average total scores on Attitude Toward Implicit Bias Instrument by demographic characteristics and year in medical school. Students completed the instrument between 2015 and 2018 in New York, USA

From: Validity evidence for a novel instrument assessing medical student attitudes toward instruction in implicit bias recognition and management

Variable

Year

Category

N

Mean

s.d.

Latino/a/x

1st

Latino/a/x

52

92.6

9.8

1st

Not Latino/a/x

646

90.8

10.8

3rd

Latino/a/x

16

87.6

13.2

3rd

Not Latino/a/x

286

87.7

13.1

Race

1st

African American/Black

25

94.5

6.7

1st

Asian/South Asian/Pacific Islander

217

93.9

9.6

1st

White

408

89.2

11.0

1st

Mixed

39

91.0

11.9

1st

Other

11

89.4

9.8

3rd

African American/Black

11

89.9

15.0

3rd

Asian/South Asian/Pacific Islander

69

86.3

11.5

3rd

White

225

86.5

13.3

3rd

Mixed

4

83.3

16.3

3rd

Other

13

82.8

12.5

Gender

1st

Female

338

93.3

9.4

1st

Male

358

88.7

11.4

1st

Other

4

97.0

7.8

3rd

Female

171

90.5

12.1

3rd

Male

194

84.3

13.2

Orientation

1st

Bisexual

20

96.3

8.2

1st

Heterosexual

602

90.4

10.9

1st

Homosexual

31

93.0

10.1

1st

Queer

7

98.6

7.3

1st

Other

36

93.9

7.6

3rd

Bisexual

8

91.3

14.9

3rd

Heterosexual

283

89.6

13.0

3rd

Homosexual

20

89.6

8.8

3rd

Queer

5

100.0

5.1

3rd

Other

27

89.5

13.2

3rd

(Missing)

24

80.7

13.4

Age

1st

< 25

579

90.7

10.7

1st

25–30

101

91.7

11.1

1st

> 30

19

94.1

8.7

3rd

< 25

88

87.7

12.0

3rd

25–30

259

87.4

13.3

3rd

> 30

16

81.9

14.1