Table 3 Measures of explicit and implicit anti-Indigenous bias of medical school applicants, stratified by application status, compared with current medical students and undergraduate math students
From: Anti-Indigenous bias of medical school applicants: a cross-sectional study
How do you feel about Indigenous people?a (median, IQR) | Do you prefer white people or Indigenous people?b (median, IQR) | IATc (ms) (median, IQR) | |
|---|---|---|---|
Applicants | 96 (80–100) | 50 (37–55) | −0.22 (− 0.54, 0.08) |
Math Students | 77 (58–100) | 57.5 (52.5–64.5) | − 0.30 (− 0.74, 0.07) |
Current Medical Students | 93 (77–100) | 51 (30–71) | −0.16 (− 0.41, 0.18) |
Kruskal-Wallis test | p = 0.05 | p = 0.11 | p = 0.44 |
Not interviewed | 98 (80–100) | 50 (40–54) | −0.22 (− 0.52, 0.07) |
Interviewed | 94 (79–100) | 50 (32–55) | −0.25 (− 0.55, 0.13) |
Wilcoxon rank-sum test | p = 0.52 | p = 0.43 | p = 0.65 |
Rejected | 90 (75–100) | 51 (48–58) | −0.31 (− 0.63, 0.11) |
Waitlisted | 90 (75–100) | 50 (43.5–58.5) | −0.11 (− 0.26, 0.13) |
Accepted | 96.5 (86–100) | 31 (13.5–43) | − 0.27 (− 0.49, 0.34) |
Wilcoxon rank-sum test | p = 0.47 | p = 0.02 | p = 0.43 |
Not admitted | 96 (79–100) | 50 (40–55) | −0.23 (− 0.55, 0.08) |
Matriculated | 100 (86–100) | 32 (27–35) | −0.07 (− 0.32, 0.37) |
Wilcoxon rank-sum test | p = 0.36 | p = 0.01 | p = 0.12 |