International Women's Day- Can You Solve the Riddle? (Mindspace)
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- Is gender equality in the workplace still an issue? We ran an experiment with 22 people, all trying to solve the same riddle, and recorded their surprised responses. Watch the video to find out the answer! #IWD2023 #EmbraceEquity
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The "father" thing was a red herring. Very clever.
Obviously the actual learning is about how unconscious bias (framing innocent, stereotypical thoughts as morally-wrong sexism) can easily distract us from actual bias (the very present and ethically wrong nepotism!).
Ethically wrong practices - whether in hiring or socially - hurt fair-minded people - no matter the gender or situation. Understanding how unconscious bias clouds your judgement is imperative! Women and other groups are just as capable of corrupt business or social practices. It shouldn't be tolerated just because you might feel there is a power imbalance or calling out bias in our society might be seen as "unwelcome".
I applaud the bravery and impartiality of this video, even if they didn't drive their point home as clearly as the could have by the end. But you can (!) when you share this very important video during "Unconscious Bias" training in your workplace!
The video makes a great point and raises awareness on an issue that still needs to be talked about and worked on; however, I believe the starting point we were given has influenced and anchored our thought process. "A man is the car with his son > he receives a call from the CEO who calls him "son" > how is this *even possible*? We automatically, maybe subconsciously associate the person on the other side of the phone with a man.
It's a leading question
hello dear
Good point. But I'm not so sure we're completely led. A while ago our school organised a debate with a panel of five politicians. This was all the info I received. I went along but when I got there I was surprised. All five politicians were women. When I thought about it I realised that in my head I had expected a panel of men, before entering the room. Old stereotypes still persist.
I kind of had the same reaction. It's a hard one, and I'm a female CEO myself! But everything in the riddle made me think of a man, and it wasn't so much because it was a CEO that was calling but more because of the use of the word "son" like that, which is often associated with a father talking to his son. I never hear mothers around me calling their son "son", so that's also influenced my answer.
It's because too many women are lazy slackers who don't work and prefer to marry a rich desperate guy
Omg I am so glad i guessed it right. This was the first answer that came to my mind when I paused the video to think
Mind blowing.... It really helped me understand about what is breaking the bias means....
This video is more of the same - feminists preaching the false narrative that women are eternally oppressed by a society that actually caters to their every demand. It also gives the false narrative that young men have it easy, which, in today's world, could never be further from the truth.
Spot on! implicit bias! The riddle did not use misleading words, isms are social constructed bias that we learn to conform to. What a gentle way of sparking awareness. Thank you
Damn, you MUST be a gender studies major. You spew every buzzword "Social constructs" "Awareness" "Implicit bias"
What a smug, self-righteous way to attempt to spark awareness.
What if he had two dads?
I got that straight away. Of course it's his mother. :) And I'm Dyslexic. But then Dyslexics are Problem Solvers, which is on the UK NHS Healthcare website about Dyslexia. 👍
We need more Dyslexics in Government, because currently our world is very messed up. And problems need solving.
Most people don't talk about problems and solve them. Why is that?
The biggest problem we have is the abuse on children and women. Getting this debated is impossible. I know too many people that have been hurt by bad men. But I know a lot of good men.
I am a proud mum. And quite honestly, for me, I am glad I gave up my career for our daughter.
I have a child that does not swear, she is not on the Internet trying to meet men. She does not get drunk or take drugs. And is putting her career first.
This to me is the biggest success story. And I am proud beyond words.
I wish Women good luck if being a CEO is their dream.
Now my daughter is older. I hope to have my own business. And be my own boss.
The question is loaded. "How is this possible ?" As if there is a mystery. Subconsciously Implying the other person on the phone is kinda his father too
Exactly and how often does a CEO interview their child for a position in the company, is that even legal for a CEO of a stockbroker to be hiring their child into the company.. this is just one of those loaded questions and why are we mentioning the father why not say parent.. if we supposed to be talking non binary 2 sexes and being inclusive they should not be mentioning father, or son.. it should be..
A parent was bringing their child to a job interview.
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@@nikocreed8244Bro still hasn’t got an answer.
Actually, the (proposed?) solution can be seen as sexist. The CEO might very well be a man. The son can have two fathers.
The question is a little misleading. But I got it before they answered. If thinking logically, it's not a hard task.
Really??? That was literally the first thing that came to my mind.
Many possibilities - The mother, stepmother, the other fathers (stepfather, co-father, etc).
Has anybody been called by your mom as (and only) 'son'...？
I have been called "filha" which translates from portuguese as "daughter" many many times by both my mother and my father. I don't understand the question.
I think it’s the phrase that got us thinking it’s a man, since the word “son” is always attributed to the father. If the phrase went like “good luck honey, you’ve got this”, I think most of us would’ve got the right answer. So I would say that, in this situation, it’s more than the wording rather than internal sexism that got us to have this bias.
I have heard a different version of this riddle. 'Once a father and his son were travelling in a car. The car gets in an accident. The father dies on the spot and the son is grievously injured. He is taken to the hospital and he needs an operation. The doctor sees him and refuses to work saying, "He is my son". How is this possible?' And I failed to solve it.
Solved this riddle easily.
Ya me too. But I think I solved it bcz i have seen the title 'international women's day '
@@vahni7891 hahahaha yep
More like International Sexlsm Day
Same
I had a vision that many women marching on Rome would uncover a great mystery that would uplift women everywhere and set children free. I think a March on the Vatican is in order.
So apparently female CEOs start to speak more like men when they get to the top. "Good luck, my darling boy" is what I would have said to my son. "Good luck, son" is more likely to be to used by a man addressing his son or a younger man, isn't it?
That is a good linguistic catch . The video however makes the point.
Good exercise for the mind... "She has the greater burden and the greater work. Look at the vegetable and the animal worlds. The palm which carries the fruit is the tree most prized by the date grower. The Arab knows that for a long journey the mare has the longest wind. For her greater strength and fierceness, the lioness is more feared by the hunter than the lion.
I think was more influenced by the narrator's voice than the bias...and also calling the son "son" is more a father thing, I would say...
English is also tricky because of the absence of gender in preprositions and adjectives.
In my language (Portuguese) the word "The" has different gender forms.
If the riddle was narrated by a female voice, it would have an impact in the responses... the test is a biased already because it gives hints that lead the participants to the conclusions that the research expects...
I have seen this in a text message and people still got it wrong.
do you know where I could find the riddle video?
I had the same interpretation.
Every day is International Women's Day.
I gave the right answer I am from BANGLADESH and I always used to think western people are not sexist as our people but this video changed
my mind . As a high schooler I can answer this question but these grownups can't matter of great sorrow 🥺🥺🥺🥺
Khankir chole gandu🇧🇩
I remember when I tried to solve this riddle, I seriously failed
do you know where I could find the riddle video?
Tbh, if the narrator's voice was female, more people would've gotten it. He sounds like a father and reads the "Good luck son, you've got this" in a particularly fatherly tone.
Not saying we don't need more women CEOs though, but the setup had an influence imo
I said the riddle to my coworkers in a particularly “motherly” note and still got the same answers.
Based on what evidence do we need more Women CEO's?
I initially guessed that he had two fathers. Arguably a more inclusive answer(?)
Me too
I guessed the guy’s ‘ real’ father is the CEO 😆
how exactly do you measure inclusiveness?
men = 0%
women = 15%
same-sex = 20%
and is there a combo-bonus?
@@MisterL2_yt do you know where I could find the riddle video?
do you know where I could find the riddle video?
Well not really because you are still trying to shoehorn a male into the role, even though a gay father CEO would be statistically far less likely than a mother simply being the CEO.
No, I don't think it's a sexist bias.
In my opinion, this is what the issue is: in the first part of the video when the audio recording narrates the riddle, the sentence spoken by the CEO of the company is in a male voice ('good luck son you got this'). So, naturally, the person who is hearing it forms a subconscious connection.
This is like a really old riddle where it is a doctor who is his mother. But I heard that young kids now don't have this confusion at all anymore.
Typical that CEO still does the trick though.
This is the first time I stooped to the level of trying to talk to these people through my computer going "it's the mother" sigh it did not work, they did not hear me! :)
Maybe next time?
Still trying?
the CEO is the mother, a the son is actually a daughter because in many countries parents adress their daughters "son", at least they do so in Bosnia. My dad regularly adressed me "Listen son", eventhough I was his daughter.
Replace CEO with watchman... It still works. And all fortune 500 don't have more lady watchman.
Solved it instantly!
Wonderful Video!! I love it!
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It's a shame that they only show the candidates who didn't solve the riddle within seconds. My very first thought was "easy, he has two dads", then I realized it could also be his mom. Took me about 10 seconds to come up with what I think of as two equally valid answers.
Well you also saw that it was posted in connection to international women's day so you knew what to look out for. not really the same
I know right!! Same..
You also proved the point of the experiment because your first initial thought was that it was another male.
@@drscatman1914I mean if it helps you, I thought of it
@@veramuster9566Tbh me and many others in school thought of it and I only realised how it was advertising international women's day after I figured it out
Very cool campaign Mindpsace, however take notice of the other side of the video, which is nepotism.
And bingo... I thought the same thing
Is that even legal for a "PARENT" to hire a "CHILD" or "DEPENDENT" (if we want to be inclusive) into a stockbroker company, not sure but the thought I had was that its just not common for a CEO "PARENT" to be interviewing their "CHILD" for a stockbroker company. They would probably just hire them.
The riddle reminds me of those old word tricks where after having you spell and say words getting you to think about RED, they then say and What do you do at a GREEN LIGHT.. and often the person responds.. STOP.. because your mind was processing words and things around Red and then its quickly changed with a question and since you thinking its relevant to RED you think STOP.
Questions can be created in such a way to get just about any response they really want to prove the point they want.
Out of all the jobs I have had in my 50 years I have had 2 managers that I feel were the best of the best, one was a male one was female, however that said If I had to pick one as tops it would be the woman, and there were 2 other women I would say were very good, the worst manager I had was a male, and the others were just ok. I base this on their interactions and how they managed the team, how the team responded to them etc.. no bias no bs
WOW...I'm amazed that people did not consider his Mother was the CEO
I think so at the beginning 👌👌👌
Loved it💗💫💫💯💜
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the way that question is engineered directs the mind to think as if the caller is his father... hence the question is biased.
What a riddle! The realisation is eyebrowraising.
Excellent Riddle
The women is the CEO! DUH!
Well if you just thought that doesn't that make your biased towards females then not thinking it could be a man.
This is mind blowing..
I'm not biased, CEO could be his/her teacher, who knows the capability of their students more than anybody else, if he/she is candidate's parents then there won't be any fuss about the interview.
It was International Men's Day 2020 yesterday. The poster reads "It is time to recognize and honor the contributions and sacrifices men make for their families and society"
You notice they don't recognize and honor and honor men? It is contributions and sacrifices they honor. No video like this was made, google didn't change their thumbnail, news stations didn't mention it nothing. Face it guys you are just a wallet on legs to women and cannon farter to society.
Oh my goodness.... really.... us poor unrecognized "white" men need more recognition... please please please give your head a shake. White men run the world, take and guard most of its capital for themselves while depleting its resources and running amok over billions of people... We need to recognize these impacts from white men and make a better world with more women and diverse people engaged in making the decisions. Please don't whine about the poor, overlooked contributions of men. They are apparent everywhere and fully acknowledged.
@@josephreilly4562Just about everything you mentioned is wrong... You are not woke. You are sleepwalking. Majority of homeless are W men, majority of crime victims are W men. The house of Shad owns $1.4 trillion in combined assets and controls another $45 trillion. That is more than the top 1000 richest people in the world. The world wide population of W people is 9% while B people make up 18% and Asian and Indian people make up 67%. W men are the minority ... Just so you know Elon musk is from Africa.
@@josephreilly4562 International Men's Day (Nov 19th) isn't just about white Men you SIMP. It's about tackling Men's mental health and tackling Male suicide which is a massive issue in the Male gender and it's also about celebrating the good Men out there and their contributions to society. Try educate yourself and stop your silly self hate. 🤡🤡
I mean this was really easy 😌
LIKE COME ON
The riddle just started i already had the answer, so easy being a feminist!!
Do feminists get a prize at some point? like a badge or a medal?
This was insanely simple. Who were these people ?
Actors or people from the 1960ies...
I know right!
It's a staged question. They're actors and the responses are scripted.
Wonderful!
WAIT!! This was an excellent video, but what confused me was this very inappropriate message from someone at the top of a comany making clear to their son that they have the job even before the interview. I wasnt even thinking about the gender of the caller, but rather the issue of how fair employment processes are sabotaged by relationships outside the interview. And this wasn't even mentioned!! Am I missing something? The video presents this as normal when these kinds of practices are exactly what prevents, women and minorities from achieving success in their careers.
For me it was difficult because of nepotism aswell.
But because it felt hard to believe that they would have to interview at all at a close relatives company. And it is kind of weird that they would have to be driven by one parent when the other parents works there anyway. I thought it was a biological father who abandoned them and that's why he didn't just get the job without an interview.
So I tried to find a solution like his name was "Son". Or I tried to think about it as a metaphor that he was the actual "sun".
The words used in this riddle is misleading. The riddle itself questioning us that the caller has to be male. Cause when the caller greets, Good Luck Son. He looks at his father and orator question us How is this possible? Misleadingly say that the other person is also male and how is it possible another male to call him son? Instead of How is this possible question it should be who is the caller?
Usually the phrase “good luck son” is used by fathers. That also leads people astray with this riddle
Mom called
I got it right away.
I am at 0.55 of the video and I know the answer. It's MOTHER. Why Father can only be the CEO. The position of CEO doesn't define any gender.
do you know where I could find the riddle video?
I thought either it's like his grandfather calling him "son" like that or his father in law, the latter seeming better but then boom, why not mum. Huh, agree we still have sub-conscious biases :(
When you said the phone rings I said it is his mother
The CEO is the mom - or possible the son's other father, in case his parents were 2 gay guys, or maybe he was adapted - or it was a wrong number - or it was an older relative or friend who uses the affectionate term "son"
hahaha, got it on the first try, but probably just because it's an explicit women's day video
Easy - call was from his mother
A lot of people call younger people "son", the real inclusive answer is that it could have been anyone, including the mom, older people who speak like that, etc.
It's a generation thing. It's his mother .
Mine,too
I thought of the mother easily and many others in my school, how did they struggle.this much
We watched it in school and I was so confused that people couldnt answer that I searched up the video myself
It's a great example on challenging unconscious bias, though the video is somewhat leading by casting a male voice actor to narrate. (Thereby imbuing the phone contact with a male voice.)
To be fair my first thought was that the young boy had a father and step-father, given my own background from divorced parents.
Still, it gets you thinking and challenging your own preconceptions! Well done.
I'm so sorry to hear your parents are divorced. My parents divorced a couple months ago, too. I don't have a stepfather yet, though. But my mom has a boyfriend that might become my step-father. Is it okay if I ask you about how you felt getting a step-dad? I just want to try to be... prepared. My mom's boyfriend doesn't SEEM to be a bad guy, but neither did my dad until my mom married him so I'm worried. I don't know if I'm being overly suspicious or not
@@mittenvonscrufflears7233 Don't be sorry! It was the best decision for both of them and I'm happy they each have their own lives now. It was weird at the time, but the best way to look at it is that they're each a human being with their own needs, and it's they have to separate to be happy then ultimately it's for the best so that you'll get both parents being their happiest in the long run. (Even if it hurts now). As for step parents and new partners, I'd say the best thing you can do is treat them like a new person in school or in a job...be friendly, give them a chance to get to know you, and try and judge them as a person and not as a replacement. Hope that helps!
@@unifoon Thank you! I'm glad it makes you happy now. Reading your opinion has made me think that I probably am being overly cautious of him. I'll give it a chance! I just feel really lonely right now because I only have 1 person living with me and I don't even see them for most of the day, and I'm an only child and Covid makes it even worse. I guess I just wanted to be assured that it feels better eventually. Although I don't think I'll ever be able to not feel at least a little sad about it, I should try to focus on the things I do have. Like a house, a lot of people in the world don't even have one
@@mittenvonscrufflears7233 Yeah, Covid has made it really sucky when you want to hang out with others! Are you still seeing your dad? As time goes by you'll find that it might even help give you a stronger bond with each of your parents, as it'll be unique and personal to you. Having a mum and dad who live together is the storybook idea of a happy family, but honestly people enter your lives and leave them for good reasons, and just because circumstances change it doesn't mean you lose the people you care about. You'll find a way to make it work, I'm certain!
@@unifoon Yeah, I'm still seeing my dad but, well, let's just say my mom divorced him for a reason. Video game addiction, anger issues, etcetera so even though I really want to have a dad in my life I'm just not sure I want HIM in my life. And thanks, I hope I can make it work out too.
I got it straight away 😂👀
I don't think these people think that women can't be CEO's, but the true fact is, they are still mostly men. And that's because of men and the old boy network that prevails. It isn't how we always think but how it has been put across.
Was I the only one who thought not about the person who's CEO, but about the timeline. That occupied my mind. It's was said that the father was going to bring his son to the job interview? Why did he knew the answer before the interview? They were still at the parking lot? Or did I get ut wrong?
I immediately said mom. What does it say about me?
I solved it before the answer was revealed 💃💃
Today is International Women's Day, for any woman to advance a career on American television must have learned long ago, since so many women have found employment on television. There are only two meaningful tools that count to ensure any advancement, they are hair dyes and wigs, just try to make a go of it without those appearance enhancements, as soon as you try, will either find yourself retired or on the unemployment line.
The mother is the CEO :)
I'm up for the message of thinking about our biases. That said questions induce biases as well.
The Audience was 'primed' a very common psycholinguistic phenomena - another example is dont think of a monkey and then, all you can think of is. ..a monkey
I think it was his mother calling him.
Super easy riddle because of the video’s title 😅
What if he had 2 dads you bigots
It's not bias but rather it's logic. You are not sexist but instead it's just your mental observation and memory that is connecting to reality. Your mind doesn't care if CEOs are men or women just like your mind registers Indians, Chinese or British or Aussies with particular traits. That is called rational thinking. The CEO being woman is merely critical thinking. If you don't have critical thinking, it doesn't mean you are sexist. You are just an average person like most. The agenda is that they want to make you logically think that CEO can be a woman. It's the same as thinking of a man who hear about firefighting or a woman when you hear about ballet dance. Do you think about a man or a woman when you hear about insurance agent or a bank clerk? I think no. It is gender neutral because the actual observations made by us in daily lives say so. So, when you have close to or equal to same number of female CEOs as that of male CEOs in a software or automation or any pharma industry, then your mind may not have this inclination to think about one gender. But, what's the point of all this? Nothing!! Literally, nothing! It doesn't make a difference at all. The corporate boss, irrespective of gender or race, is always a corporate arse mostly.
I have never in my life had my mother call me son. She calls me by my name. My father on the other hand almost always calls me son. So that is why I thought he had two fathers
How is it people don't know this riddle? I heard it 40 years ago (except it was about a surgeon who couldn't operate on her child).
we had a similar riddle inclass. nobody guessed
Can u please tell me what was that riddle u got asked?😁
To be honest this is a language hurdle. There would not have been any misconception in languages that have gendered nouns.... but yeah.
Is it the mother..and I have not seen the end...since CEO didn't mention the gender and son could be addressed by mother as wel.
This doesn’t make you sexist it is implying that the dad is talking to him
It's not implying that at all. It said "the CEO"
I think it's also has to do with who is asking the riddle. When you hear the riddler saying "good luck son..", you may subconsciously assume that its a man.
If you would have read this riddle yourself instead of listening it from a man, then you may have reached to the right answer.
Its the Mother who called him
Wonder what the result would be if the entire narrative is in a female voice? Or simply written and handed out to participants.
They have done the opposite experience? The mother goes with the sun...
Celebrate. This. Day. By. Group. Of. Girls. And. Increse. Your. Participation. In. Everywhere. For. Power. In. World. And. Launch. New. Rules. From. United. Nations. For. Power. Of. Girls.
The CEO was his mother🙂
Lateral thinking
Such hypocrisy. Consider that women get preferential treatment in many ways, including the workforce because their "rights" are protected more than men's., hence they get hiring preference, especially in government jobs. We haven't achieved what we like to call "equality" for that reason alone. We have attained ROLE REVERSAL or equity, not equality. The words "equality" and "equity" are condescending and insulting to anybody's intelligence who actually knows what those two words mean.
I don't think it is appropriate to conclude only here. If the narrator is female and replaces "son" with "daughter", then I will subconsciously think that the CEO will be female. This test does not explain the problem. I am sorry that my English is not good, and it may be misleading in tone, but it is clear that this test does not explain the existence of prejudice
Let's change the question specially for IWD 2021. A man turns up for an interview for a type of job which is poorly represented by women. He says he is a woman. Do you interview him?
By current standards I’d probably be considered sexist (I’m a man), and yet I got the right answer pretty much immediately. I can only conclude either you found the most dim witted participants you could, or this is all a con to try and convince the audience that most people just can’t fathom a woman CEO, presumably to show what an awful misogynistic society we live in. There are women in leadership roles literally everywhere. As I type this I am sitting in an office of a female run company with my mostly female coworkers (it’s a STEM field too, I might add). Ffs drop the victim complex.
So fkking easy. None could answer. LMAO
My male student got it right.
Just go make me a sammich, and enjoy your day ladies
This is INTENTIONALLY MISLEADING and does not demonstrate implicit bias. While it is pretty common for a father to address his son as "son," I have NEVER heard a woman address her son as "son." The use of the term SON is what makes everyone think the caller MUST be a man, NOT the fact the caller is the CEO.
It's the mother.
His Mom is the CEO
I thought of his mum before the story even ended. Duh!!!
i guessed it right!