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felson
02-01-2005, 03:35 AM
This test was discussed in Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink and is available in the "Demonstration" section here (http://www.implicit.harvard.edu/). The test reveals unconscious attitudes and biases which can be quite different from the stated beliefs of the test-taker.
Of the tests available, the most well-known is the Race IAT. One surprising result: half of the 50,000 African Americans who took this test have a stronger association with whites than with blacks. Gladwell observes, "we live in North America, where we are surrounded every day by cultural message linking white with good."
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This test was discussed in Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink and is available in the "Demonstration" section here (http://www.implicit.harvard.edu/). The test reveals unconscious attitudes and biases which can be quite different from the stated beliefs of the test-taker.
Of the tests available, the most well-known is the Race IAT. One surprising result: half of the 50,000 African Americans who took this test have a stronger association with whites than with blacks. Gladwell observes, "we live in North America, where we are surrounded every day by cultural message linking white with good."
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damnit, all that for a 'no preference' and 'inconclusive' test
BusterStacks
02-01-2005, 04:13 AM
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Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for European American relative to African American
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NLSoldier
02-01-2005, 04:40 AM
Mine was the same but they used the terms white and black.
felson
02-01-2005, 04:52 AM
I scored a moderate automatic preference for European American over African American (or white/black, I forget how the test phrased it). It disturbs me that I have these unconscious preferences even though I don't want to have them.
As a follow-up, I took the European-American/ Asian-American test and found that I have a moderate bias towards regarding European-Americans as more American than Asian-Americans. I'm a second-generation Korean-American.
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