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I was a psych major in undergrad, and did an experiment as a riff on stereotype threat and got a small effect. I had the participants solve brain teaser puzzles and the only difference was introducing them as coming from 11th grade or graduate level math. Undergrads did worse when they thought it was graduate level.



I think that result would ring true for anyone who's worked in education, but it doesn't sound very similar to stereotype threat




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