Are You Biased? Implicit Associations Test

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It might make a good test of reaction times I suppose.

Your data suggest little or no association between Female and Male with Career and Family.
Your data suggest a moderate association of Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts

I am not going to do any more, they take too long and they are VARY bias which I find vary annoying.

They asked for too much personal info before allowing you to take the test. I don't give out that kind of information at random, so I didn't take the test. Too bad because it sounds interesting.

I remember doing these one time, and when I did have an implicit bias, it was pretty much random (if anything, from pressing the same button so many times in a row that I accidentally pressed it a few times when it did change). I don't think I had any major biases, but there might have been one or two. Even for politics, I really showed no significant bias for or against either Democrats or Republicans even though I hate W.

I noticed that too....

Looks like I'll have to make some stuff up and then take the test.

I got a moderate preference for white over black. I tried a few of the other test and the methodology is the same. They take the opposite skin colour to your own then associate bad with that colour. They imprint this on your brain, switch it and when you trip up the test calls you racist, personally I would say the test is seriously flawed

I don't think it's flawed. for example, in the race test, if your answers are quicker in the black/bad associations, as opposed to black/good, then it does show an automatic preference for one colour.

There is a scene in "The Andromeda Strain" where a lab tech is reviewing samples. As they flash up "fail" she switches to the next one. She gets stuck in a production line style rut and goes straight past the "pass" without registering it. This was much the same but faster.

That's the gripe I've had since the test was first introduced a few years ago. It was worse at the beginning, though. They set you up to form associations and then call you racist for doing so successfully. Well, what, is the human brain supposed to merely reset after doing one part of this test?

Yes, I agree, it is indeed flawed, I actually had that problem, even though I was slow, I can't do this fast, so any test like this that requires one to answer fast, doesn't work for me.

It looked to me that the expressions of the black faces compared to the expressions of the white ones, were tricky, the black faces looked like they were though people, while the whites faces didn't look like that, more like in a friendlier tone than the black ones, which makes it look biased.

However, if you strongly opposed any of the presidential candidates, taking that test can reveal that you would correlate 'good' with the one you like and 'bad' with the one you dislike, I admit that, but that is quite obvious, even though I actually failed on some answers that would be suppose to be the candidate I would like more.

Anyway, I conclude that tests like this are very unreliable.

ha! I actually thought exactly the opposite! but hey, it's not like we're much on the expressions-side of things anyway huh? that's where the "implicit association" kicks in

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I'll take it later - it says to take it without distractions and my co-worker can't keep quiet for a second.

A strong automatic preference for the United Kingdom compared to the United States.

Moderate preference for Obama and for black people. I am white.

I think my pref for black people in the test is because I am more familiar with white people, and quicker to see things that I don't like in their faces, whereas I don't read so much into black people's faces, which is my automatic/unconscious racial bias, ( "racism" in a way, because it is lack of interest in my gaze at black people ) showing in fact.

I was surprised to find just how difficult it was for me to smoothly "associate" McCain with good things, and how naturally it came with Obama, even when they switched the order round so that any previous "conditioning/programming" from the test was reversed. .

And there was one "white" face I kept blocking on every time. I think because it was to me "not white" but rather an arab race, which might be because I am from the UK/Europe where "white" doesn't necessarily include the arab races.

Will go back to try the sexuality one.

It was "moderately" interesting to see what things about it were difficult.

Edit: Just done the sexuality test, and no automatic preference for either homosexuals or heterosexuals, according to the test.

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