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    Posted: October 17 2009 at 14:48
This is a project by some psychologists at Harvard to uncover people's subconscious biases and associations with certain groups. 

You can take some tests and find out for yourself here: http://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/takeatest.html

Each one only takes a few mins and they're pretty fun.

From the ones I've taken: 

  • I show a strong automatic preference for young compared to old.
  • I show a slight preference for Barack Obama to Richard Nixon.
  • I show a moderate association for women with liberal arts and men with sciences.
  • I make negative associations with Islam and positive with Christianity, while being neutral toward Judaism and Hinduism. 


Edited by Equality 7-2521 - October 17 2009 at 16:45
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 16:09
  • I show a slight automatic preference for Light Skin compared to Dark Skin.
  • I show a slight automatic preference for Straight People compared to Gay People.
  • On the Implicit Preference Scale for Religion: positive for Buddhism, rather neutral for Christianity & Judaism, negative for Islam.
  • I show little to no automatic preference between Young and Old.
  • I show little or no association between Female and Male with Career and Family.
Unconvinced the age result reflects me.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 17:38
- I show a  more positive implicit preference for budhism and judaism (?!), little lower for christianity, and negative for Islam (quite accurate this last one - no need to uncover my unconscious for that).
- moderate automatic preference for european american vs african american
 
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 18:05
I've done the test and I think it's just crap.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 18:23
^ I tend to agree Alex.
 
moderate preference for young over old
slight preference for straight over gay
slight positive inclination towards Islam & Buddhism, neutral in Judaism and very negative in christian.
 
couldn't be arsed to do any more.
 
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 19:49
I did not do this and in doing so found I
 
do not need to take tests to determine my own beliefs and attitudes
could use the internet for something entertaining 


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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 20:35
I tried the skin tone test but all I did was press e and i rapidly and it said I had to many errors. :(
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 21:58
I never liked these tests. To me it seemed like they were just putting evil on the left and good on the right, then putting black on the left and white on the right, and then switching them after you've built an association and going "Aha! You're secretly racist!"
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 22:04
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

I never liked these tests. To me it seemed like they were just putting evil on the left and good on the right, then putting black on the left and white on the right, and then switching them after you've built an association and going "Aha! You're secretly racist!"

It felt a little set up to me too, which is why I gave up pretty quickly. How does it grade your performance? Based on errors?
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 22:18
Errors and the time it takes you to pick the right one.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 22:21
So basically all I have to do is get lots of errors and take a long time and I'm not racist, or something to that effect?
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 22:29
I think get no errors and do it instantly would prove that you're not racist because you don't have subconscious biases preventing you from quickly making the association between black people and good.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 22:37
Either way, is your performance on the test directly related to race preference?
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Points: 16310 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2009 at 23:10
There is a chapter on this on Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink.
I agree with Henry, that the test totally tricks your brain into picking the "racist" answers.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2009 at 00:33
I think the test is quite accurate. At first at had some issue that the order of the word choices could influence ones selection. However, the specifications say that the choices are randomized with some bias to eliminate undesirably long runs.

Could I ask the objections to the testing procedures?
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2009 at 00:37
Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

I did not do this and in doing so found I
 
do not need to take tests to determine my own beliefs and attitudes
could use the internet for something entertaining 

1) This was meant to be entertaining. No reason to take it so seriously.

2) Subconscious affiliations say nothing about your beliefs or attitudes. For example, while not a huge supporter of either, I loathe Barack Obama and think Richard Nixon was a neutral president. However, my results showed a bias towards Obama. Given that we're bombarded in society with demonizing accounts of Nixon and ones glorifying Obama, this result would make a great deal of intuitive sense. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Points: 1416 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2009 at 16:16
I think these types of introspective tests into the subconcsious are all hogwash IF taken the wrong way.
Above me, Equality does an excellent job of summing up my thoughts on the matter. These results may be surprising, but they in no way really reflect who you really are.
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