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zhai

On writing the other

Mar 12, 2009 22:14

This is going to be my one and only contribution to the conflagration that shall not be named, mostly because it's too ironic to resist. If you want more details, Mary Anne Mohanraj has a wonderfully thoughtful post on it, which also links to this great video. Most of the remaining bases have already been covered. I wish we could just be people. ( ( Read more... )

internets, race, philomath, game design, publication

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retch March 14 2009, 00:49:21 UTC

Interstingly I got the same slight preference for dark skin on the IAT. Given I'm white, and will freely admit that I have had racist thoughts at times, that comes as a bit of a surprise.

Mary Anne Mohanraj's posts on Scalzi's blog seem to be really good, to my admittedly limited viewpoint, I found the level of vitriol elsewhere were making the whole thing an automatic avoid for me.

t_rex March 24 2009, 20:45:20 UTC

Off topic comment here, but I thought you *may* be interested. This particular artist has several winged creatures in her paintings.

http://marrus.livejournal.com/139829.html#cutid1

And back on topic. I scored as having a strong preference for Obama over McCain (big surprise) and having no preference for white or black. However, my strong preference for Obama could have influenced any race bias I have in this case, since the two tests were taken so close together. I had a slight preference for white when I took the test months (many months?) before.