Implicit Association Test

BabyPiglet

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This test shows hidden prejudices against a certain group of people. A completely subconcious thing.

We had to take it for sociology, and I'll just say, I was very surprised. I thought you guys might be interesting in it.

http://www.understandingprejudice.org/iat/racframe.htm

This link is for the race one, but there's a gender one too.

:)

Oh, and you don't have to post your results if you don't want to. :goodvibes
 
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African American compared to European American.

i don't really believe it.
mostly my errors were because i forgot which side each thing went to. and it would go "left right left right left right right" and i would mess up on the "right right":confused3
 
mine said i had an automatic preference for European americans.
which i kinda believe.
but then again...two of my best Friends are Black.
 
I have a strong automatic preference for European Americans.

I have to agree with Shelby. I kept making mistakes, more specifically when they switched around, because I forgot which went where.
 
The mistakes are part of what makes it work, I think.

On the race one, I got a slight preference to european americans.
On the gender one, I slightly associate (more) females with career, and males with home.

Interesting, not exactly what I thought I was get. Obviously I was hoping for 'you have no preference to any race/ethnicity' & 'you don't associate home/career with female/male'. Something for me to work on, I guess.
 
Slight automatic preference for White people.

IDK. It got confusing after awhile.
 
Moderate automatic preference for European Americans.

I didn't really get it.
I only messed up twice, because I forgot which one was on which side.
Then they switched both and I was all "Oh no. D:"
Were they switching up with European Americans or good and vice versa and then if you put a European American on the left with the bad that meant you had more of a preference for African Americans?
If so I don't think that's very accurate...

I just did the gender and said I had a strong association with female:family and male:career.
Which isn't really true.
 
I took it again, and got a slight preference for European American then African American.

This time, it was opposite to the first one. First time around I had European on the left and African American on the right at the beginning, and this time around, I have African American on the left, and European American on the right.

Both times I found the first one easier then the second one. I still don't see how they measure this.
 
Race:

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for African American compared to European American.

Gender:

Your data suggest little or no association between Female and Male with CAREER and FAMILY.

yeah. I agree with the second one, but I dunno about the first one. I don't know why I would prefer one over the other. I don't even really know any black people.
 
Moderate automatic preference for European Americans.

I didn't really get it.
I only messed up twice, because I forgot which one was on which side.
Then they switched both and I was all "Oh no. D:"
Were they switching up with European Americans or good and vice versa and then if you put a European American on the left with the bad that meant you had more of a preference for African Americans?
If so I don't think that's very accurate...

I just did the gender and said I had a strong association with female:family and male:career.
Which isn't really true.

No, it's how fast your reaction time with each of the combinations is
If your reaction time is faster for "African Americans" and "Bad", then you may have a slight preference toward whites. If your reaction time is faster for "African Americans" and "Good", then vice versa.

I got slight preference for African Americans vs European Americans and a moderate association with males and career and females home. *sigh* stupid unfeminist society I live in.:headache:
 
I had a slight preference for European Americans and I associate males with career and females with family
 
Little or no automatic preference.

Wasn't it strange that they were trying to judge us, but they were only using two races?

You don't associated female/male with either

I guess I'm all lovey dovey.
 
For those who were saying it was getting confusing and they thought it was flawed, no it's really not flawed, it's supposed to work that way.

I had no gender association, but a strong preference for European Americans.
Which seems wrong to me, because I've been raised in a very liberal area and I'm friends with several black people.
I don't know. I NEVER thought of myself as prejudiced. And some test won't change that for me.
 
I started to take it but it got too confusing for me after awhile.
 
I got a slught prefernace to european americans


I dont get how this is reall accurate, a couple times I just pressed the buttons because I forgot what side was what
 
For those who were saying it was getting confusing and they thought it was flawed, no it's really not flawed, it's supposed to work that way.

I had no gender association, but a strong preference for European Americans.
Which seems wrong to me, because I've been raised in a very liberal area and I'm friends with several black people.
I don't know. I NEVER thought of myself as prejudiced. And some test won't change that for me.

just because it is working the way that it was programed to doesn't mean that it isn't a flawed program/hypothesis.

i don't see how this test could be at all accurate at measuring predjudices for several reasons.

a) yes, it measures reaction time, but reaction time isn't a good measure of anything if the subject is too flooded with information to still make a conscious decision. if you confuse a subject, your results will automatically become flawed.

b)with six different variables, the test becomes incredibly difficult to measure, specifically when you cannot SEE the subject to fully gage their reaction.

c)sorting a picture of an african american with the word "bad" doesn't necessarily mean you're predjudice, specifically if the things to sort them from "bad" to "good" are switched back and forth, causing muscle memory to take over and accidentally missort.

d)muscle memory and pattern anticipation skew the results of this, because the subject get lulled into typing "e, i, e, i, e, i" correctly, and then the pattern will be switched from "e, i, e, i" to "e, i, i, e" and the subject will not respond correctly, because they have already anticipated the before pattern that htye had learned.

those are just four reasons that i don't trust this test, but i could go on and on forever. its a nice idea, but not througly executed correctly.
 
It measures the sub-concious, so you can't really say your answer was wrong. Your answer on the concious level might not have been what you thought though.

And Shelton, it's not judging us. And you can't measure all races with one little test, so they picked the two most prominent.

Prejudice isn't necassarily bad, everyone is prejudice against something. EVERYONE.

It's not something I just came across, it's a very well respected website. The test was created after a very thorough thought process on the subject.
 





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