(identity 'myron)

Tue, 12 Apr 2005

Implicit Association Test [/personal]

Saw this on Anderson Cooper 360 just a few hours ago, the Implicit Association Test. It's a test that tries to measure your prejudices in different areas like race, nationality and sexuality by flashing you images and measuring your response. I'm not sure how good this test works considering I got different answers depending on how many times I did them, but here are my results for the three I thought most interesting:

• Race: Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for White People relative to Black People
• Sexuality: Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for gay people relative to straight people
• Nationality: Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for United States relative to Canada

If it's true, I'm pretty proud of the second one since it's the one most deeply ingrained in most people. I couldn't believe the nationality result so I took the test again and got a neutral preference. Hmm, two out of three—I'm enlightened! Hah yeah right. I bet you at different times of the day I'll show up as a bigot on these tests and at others I'll rank as the next Dalai Lama.

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