Not entirely surprising, but still...
I just took the "Project Implicit" Gender-Science association text, having read about it in the book Blink. By all accounts, this is an essentially impossible test to fake. And I ended up with:
Your data suggest a moderate association of Female with Science and Male with Liberal Arts compared to Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts.
Whoo! I mean, yes, I'm female and in physics, but I am surrounded by men, have male teachers, read about male scientists, etc. I would have thought I was conditioned to assume men = science. However, it occured to me that many of my female friends are in biology fields, so that may have helped unconsciously!
Here's their general breakdown:
Definitely going to try some of their other ones later - I suspect I will not to as "well", or even sans-bias.
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Your data suggest a moderate association of Female with Science and Male with Liberal Arts compared to Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts.
Whoo! I mean, yes, I'm female and in physics, but I am surrounded by men, have male teachers, read about male scientists, etc. I would have thought I was conditioned to assume men = science. However, it occured to me that many of my female friends are in biology fields, so that may have helped unconsciously!
Here's their general breakdown:
Definitely going to try some of their other ones later - I suspect I will not to as "well", or even sans-bias.
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