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cyanslash in intj

Implicit Association Test

Mar 29, 2005 20:02

Are you racist? Maybe you don't think you are, but many people have implicit biases.
An article explaining the background of this.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/09/000913203757.htm

Take several different Implicit Association Tests at:
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tests, opinions and values

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christirb March 30 2005, 04:28:09 UTC

Fun.

christirb March 30 2005, 05:02:49 UTC

BTW: I meant fun on the other IA Tests

mellyjc March 30 2005, 04:48:16 UTC

I prefer the term resentful. Too many experiences of "reverse discrimination". Which doesn't apply to everyone of course...but if a random person shows themselves to fit into a stereotype of that type of behavior...I certainly won't go out of my way to be friendly.

cyanslash March 30 2005, 04:50:30 UTC

I prefer the term resentful. Too many experiences of "reverse discrimination".
I'm afraid I don't quite understand. What do you mean by this?

mellyjc March 30 2005, 05:15:28 UTC

Undeserving accusations of being racist. I grew up in a city where whites are actually a minority- mostly Asians and Hispanics. I had no reason to think ill of Black people, and one of my good friends in preschool was black ( ... )

cyanslash March 30 2005, 05:25:04 UTC

You explained yourself quite well, and I agree with a lot of what you said. The same thing irritates me.
I believe this test looks for bias in both directions, so it would also reveal the sort of thing you're talking about.

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risenphoenixkai March 30 2005, 05:40:10 UTC

Your date suggest moderate automatic preference for Young relative to Old ( ... )

I just took the "race" test thingy.. tricstmr March 30 2005, 18:16:28 UTC

And it told me that I had a preference for dark skin over light skin... but I'm not really sure why...

I mean.. I did go fast.. but I figured out the "system" fairly fast.. and it wasn't too hard to get your brain to "switch" association fairly fast... in the second part of the test.. I just thought "evil white" and it all worked out fine...

I also wondered what would happen if you had reversed the order of this particular test.. I mean--in the first part--train you to associate darker faces with good adjectives and then switch it...

would you get the same results?

Re: I just took the "race" test thingy.. cyanslash March 30 2005, 22:07:33 UTC

I think it might have some sort of effect. But in large-scale experiments, I'm sure this is compensated for by switching off the order, and those experiments have shown that people do tend to have an implicit bias toward white.

Re: I just took the "race" test thingy.. siderea March 31 2005, 05:42:39 UTC

I've been wondering if INTJs are particularly more capable of gaming this sort of test. I did something similar.

tangent (subconsciousness at work) purplefolk March 31 2005, 07:47:57 UTC

According to the Gender-Science test, I was strongly for women & science, which is contrary to the overall trend. I wonder if I have this bias because I myself am a woman in science? It's only interesting because if anyone were to ask me who was more likely to be a scientist or what kind of demographics to expect in a lab setting (especially post-undergrad), I'm more likely to predict males over females. Consciously, I do associate men much more so than women with the sciences. (Though I blame it on societal influence, not inherent aptitude.)

I'm curious as to how much your own personal characteristics influence these things. So, would darker-skinned people still prefer lighter-skinned people overall? Would gay people still prefer straight people? Etc.