ABSTRACT

Sports referees are not always as unbiased or impartial as they ideally should be. Studies have shown, for example, that in their decisions, referees seem to be biased against people of different race, gender or height or biased in favour of the home team. There is no doubt that such partiality work against official ideals of fairness and non-discrimination in sport. The problem with this is that being affected by implicit biases potentially causes the referees to make unfair decisions, with the result that some people are penalised disproportionately within the realm of sport. In this paper, we argue that sports organisations ought to require referees to undergo implicit bias testing as part of their mandatory training, in order to gain knowledge about biases and to take the proper counter-measures to combat such biases. Finally, we present and critically discuss four objections to our argument and conclude that none of them are plausible.

摘要

体育裁判员并不总是像理想情况那样公正无偏。例如，研究表明，裁判在裁判中似乎偏向不同种族，性别或身高的人，或者偏向主队。毫无疑问，这种偏颇违反了体育运动中公平和不歧视的官方理想。这样做的问题是，受到隐性偏见的影响可能导致裁判做出不公平的决定，结果是某些人在体育领域受到不成比例的惩罚。在本文中，我们认为体育组织应要求裁判员接受隐性偏见测试作为其强制性培训的一部分，以获取有关偏见的知识并采取适当的对策来应对此类偏见。最后，