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I just did an Implicit Association Test, as suggested by the article, and got a result that was interesting in light of my views of myself.

http://implicit.harvard.edu/



Oh, wow, I highly suggest everyone try this. It really puts your subconscious bias into stark focus.


All the tests are highly political topics centered on identity politics & social justice topics. They also have weird American classifications of ethnicity being only "Hispanic vs non-hispanic" and "race" which seems more attached to skin color vs who the person is. I tapped around other countries and saw that they used some more or less classifiers of ethnicity & 'race' but the distinction are still there. It makes me put doubts about the testing itself and how much it would be used to advance political agendas.


Hmm, I just get a java.lang.NullPointerException.


I took it once and found out that as an Ashkenazi Jew I have a slight bias towards liking black people.

Bit of a "lolwut".


These tests are amusing, but I wouldn't put too much weight onto them.

I randomly picked one about attitudes towards homosexuality. Then it showed I associated some negative things with that (like "homosexuals are more often depressed" or whatever). It was not clear to me that this indicates negative attitudes on my part. Rather, I have read a lot about homosexuals having problems, so when the test presented me with such issues, of course I thought about them. That doesn't imply I think every homosexual is depressed (or whatever).

Not saying the tests are not interesting, but I think they are biased in their interpretation. They don't necessarily show what the test designers think they show.


That is incredible and I completely agree with your statements.




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