2 years of reading slash are paying off!
In New York Times today:
Project Implicit, a virtual laboratory maintained by Harvard, the University of Washington and the University of Virginia, has administered hundreds of thousands of online tests designed to detect hidden racial biases. In tests taken from 2000 to 2006, they found that three-quarters of whites have an implicit pro-white/anti-black bias. (Blacks showed racial biases, too, but unlike whites, they split about evenly between pro-black and pro-white. And, blacks were the most likely of all races to exhibit no bias at all.) In addition, a 2006 study by Harvard researchers published in the journal Psychological Science used these tests to show how this implicit bias is present in white children as young as 6 years old, and how it stays constant into adulthood.
(You can take the test yourself.)
The project in fact tests for several kinds of biases, including straight/gay one. I took that test--and got this assessment:
Your data suggests:
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Gay People compared to Straight People.
WOW! And I do not even have close gay friends in real life. I am sure before BBM and slash on daily basis my results would have been very different.
Project Implicit, a virtual laboratory maintained by Harvard, the University of Washington and the University of Virginia, has administered hundreds of thousands of online tests designed to detect hidden racial biases. In tests taken from 2000 to 2006, they found that three-quarters of whites have an implicit pro-white/anti-black bias. (Blacks showed racial biases, too, but unlike whites, they split about evenly between pro-black and pro-white. And, blacks were the most likely of all races to exhibit no bias at all.) In addition, a 2006 study by Harvard researchers published in the journal Psychological Science used these tests to show how this implicit bias is present in white children as young as 6 years old, and how it stays constant into adulthood.
(You can take the test yourself.)
The project in fact tests for several kinds of biases, including straight/gay one. I took that test--and got this assessment:
Your data suggests:
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Gay People compared to Straight People.
WOW! And I do not even have close gay friends in real life. I am sure before BBM and slash on daily basis my results would have been very different.