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4 unusual facts about Jane Elliott


Krishnan Guru-Murthy

And also fronted "The Event - How Racist are You?" in which the controversial former American schoolteacher Jane Elliott performed her "brown eyes, blue eyes" experiment on a group of British adults.

Pygmalion effect

According to once often-cited but controversial non-scientific study of Jane Elliott, the Pygmalion effect can play a role in racial expectations and behavior.

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Jane Elliott incorporated this into her study of the classroom when racially profiling her children when creating her responses to her "inferior" or "superior" children.

Race: Science's Last Taboo

An experiment centred around eye colour, devised by Jane Elliott in the 1960s, is recreated using members of the British public to draw attention to racism.



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