The women and men were placed in groups each consisting of either all men or all women. After taking the test each group was told that a judge from the opposite sex would evaluate test responses and that this judge had a tendency to discriminate against their gender group. At every level of discrimination women choose discrimination less often than did men. It seems that men are more vigilant about finding discrimination. Instead women were more likely to blame themselves for poor test results by choosing the poor quality of their answers or lack of personal effort.
Women also choose quality of the test as a reason for failure more often than did men.
Whereas, men choose discrimination as the most likely cause of the failure and thus did not blame themselves for poor test results. Black students don't see discrimination When black and white male college students were placed in the same experiment , researchers found that white male students were far more likely to chose discrimination as the reason for their failure than did black students. However, black male students did not blame themselves for this failure as women did. Instead they choose the quality of the test more often than did women. This acceptance of responsibility, even when discrimination is likely seems to be a gender bias.