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lakmiseiru in friendly_crips

Implicit bias

Apr 05, 2015 22:02

As part of an assignment for an upcoming women's career seminar, I was given a link to a set of tests for implicit bias (when you have usually unconscious associations between two concepts, or between one concept and something positive or negative). Although my assignment didn't involve it, I took their test on disability and implicit bias. ( Read more... )

discrimination: indirect, internet: online resources, stigma, privilege, memes, research, acceptance, ablism, stereotypes

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meepettemu April 5 2015, 21:31:03 UTC

I like the IATs. I remember the first time undid the race one in my psychology undergrad. I had a slight automatic preference for white people (and i suspect that's partly due to only having known white people til that point). I re-took it last year and came up with no automatic preference. Other tests seem to make sense- my dating preferences tend towards bigger people than smaller and the most recent oat I took suggested just that.

nightengalesknd April 9 2015, 01:03:18 UTC

I took one of these a few years ago. I agree with the poor accessibility - I have visual processing difficulty and I'm sure my results were affected by my need to verbally name each picture before responding.

That said, I showed a slight bias TOWARDS people with disabilities. Which. . . I wasn't sure what to think about then and I'm still not.

plasticsturgeon April 11 2015, 03:06:33 UTC

Years ago I started taking the one about fat vs. thin people and stopped in disgust because instead of having pictures of actual fat people they had taken pictures of thin people and manipulated them--badly--to look "fat." This was painfully obvious because they hadn't even bothered to switch them around--the "fat" versions were right next to the originals. I suppose they thought they were eliminating possible confounding variables.

sammason April 16 2015, 13:52:44 UTC

It took me a few attempts to take these tests! So yes, the accessibility's not great. You need two hands and the ability to keep both index fingers poised while pressing a third key - I used a thumb. You need to be able to escape from distractions such as pain, noise and cared-for people, or to ignore them. To be fair I'll say that when I interrupted the tests for toilet visits, the website didn't complain about being kept waiting ( ... )