Implicit Association Test

[wende darling]

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

Apparently there was a post about this in the Washington Post saying that the biases are accurate but that the biases don't mean predjudice. Anyhow, I'm a little shocked at my own results. I never thought of myself as biased on any level.


Your data suggest a strong association between Male and Career

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White relative to Black

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for THIN PEOPLE relative to FAT PEOPLE

[Laylee]

Strong Male and Career
Slight white to black
little to no preference for thin relative to fat people

Laylee

[Torakus]

I wish they would have explained the nuts and bolts of thier work a little better. I am curious how they compensated for things like control theory, right/left brain thinking, and social cognition theory. My results, which I will keep to myself, were exactly in line with what I expected them to be. I answered honestly, but the survey and its responses were far too limited in scope for my taste.

There just seem to be way too many factors involved in a persons cultural biases to judge them based on what appeared to be simple cognition vs. time tests. I fell in line with my expectations, but most likely not my reality and I think that is perhaps the fundamental flaw in the methodology of these measures.

I did the surveys a total of 8 times, changing certain things like using 1 hand one day, using the other the next, using both hands, then the next day with left hand but only with right eye open. Obviously I received extremely different results each time. If I can get results on opposite sides of the spectrum designed into the survey I think that shows a flaw in the fundamental assumptions used to develop them. Of course they may have designed the surveys to account for these things and my results are atypical. The dramatic difference from my results to my demographic are perhaps telling as well. I am not your typical redneck from rural America, though that is my background.

Hopefully they will respond to my request for answers about their methedology and specifically the controls they used to avoid skewing of data for the reasons I discussed.

Torakus

[Narith]

From what I understood of this it times your responses, if you are faster at responding to the woman or the man side or the thin or fat side or whatever your brain is pre-wired to recognize those faster than the other as well as associating certain things with those. With slower responses it makes the assumpition that you took longer to think about it so were that much less familiar with it, but not on any level that you would realise yourself. There are I am sure other factors taken into account.

[Grygonos Thunderwulf]

When I took the race one I got slight pref to white over black... I think that was because I was being so careful not to get any of them wrong.. I was pausing a millisecond longer on the black photos.. (I figured they were goin to try and trick question me) I responded to all but 1 really fast.. and only made one incorrect reponse.... but still a little odd to me..

[clubbin]

Having bias is not a bad thing. Bias is who you are, where you came from, etc. Everyone has it and its impossible not to have. If you could erase bias you would be erasing your identity. It is commonly seen as "prejudice" but bias is recognized in even the highest echelons of academia.

[Torakus]

Clubbin,

I definitely agree, I only question whether time vs. recognition plus cognitive differentiation (the trick fuck portion), is a realistic measure of bias. I was hoping perhaps others here saw some sort of controls in the way it was set up that I had not. So far none have been mentioned.

Tora

[Cartumandua]

I guess I prefer thin white males. I guess I need to find a new place to hang out.