Personas developed without care and empathy can create stereotypes¶

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q1 i? If not developed carefully and with empathy, personas can cause problems by creating stereotypes; the authors report mitigating this by grounding personas in lived experiences and background situations. → stereotype-risk

Evidence¶

stereotype-risk¶

Pakhira, D., & Fusco, J. (2022, October). Designing for the future of research: Putting equity-relevant research into practice with scenarios and personas. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/163

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The authors state this caution in their considerations section, reporting that they worked to bring personas to life through lived experiences and background situations to help avoid narrow typing of groups of people. No empirical test of the risk is reported.

"If not developed carefully and with empathy, personas can cause problems as they could create stereotypes."

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