Occasionally, Someone Else "Gets" It

I was intrigued by the first paragraph of the article:

In the world of higher education, we professors like to believe that we are free from the racial and gender biases that afflict so many other people in society. But is this self-conception accurate?


But, as I read through the article, I perceived a sense of disbelief that such a thing could be a part of the make-up of learned college professors. I got the impression that the writers were stunned at the results. And I wondered why... after all, these people are supposedly smart, supposedly insightful.

 “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!” [Captain Renault in "Casablanca"]

But they are human, just the same...