As in economic bias - http://hubpages.com/hub/Economic_Bias
Goes right along with how I am feeling right now about the treatment I am receiving - people assuming I can not read and write - employment offices workers shocked that I actually am making 100% on the little silly tests they have.
There might be some economic bias out there, but that article doesn’t prove anything.
It has two anecdotal stories about how the author felt he or she was being treated poorly by two different welfare agencies (no names were given). So what if one poor person got mistreated? Middle class people have to put up with bad customer service all the time.
I don’t see anything enlightening about this article.
I’m thinking that some of the supposition of a correlation of intelligence with poverty could have validity.
A diet poor in nutritional value can influence IQ.
Then there are all the ways that poverty could inhibit a good education which some people may think is similar to lack of intelligence.
Edit: Anyway, good on you for doing well and disabusing people of the stereotype.
Including one about a welfare agent calling her up to call her a liar for no reason which quite obviously didn’t happen.
We don’t talk enough about the fact that people often perceive things as happening in ways that they did not, objectively speaking, actually occur. This would be a far more interesting thing to put social emphasis on than “economic bias.”
You do not provide any background, but I assume you are looking for work and are an “above average” candidate for the ponds in which you are fishing. If the vast majority of candidates walking through the door fare poorly on the test, it is reasonable for them to assume the next person will most likely fare poorly as well. If no one has ever scored 100% on their test except for you, it is not really biased for them to be surprised. If they automatically reduced your score by 20% because “unemployed people are dumb”, then they would be biased.
Best of luck on the job search, though. 