Thursday, December 14, 2006

R U Racist?

The story that this article accompanied was saying that unconscious or implicit racism was still rampant in the US.
Here's a test to see if you are unconsciously racist.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.jsp
Then choose the "Race IAT"
After some of you post your results, I'll tell you what it said about me.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for European American compared to African American. Gat Gaff!

sarah diama said...

I, too, apparently show an automatic prefernce for Euro Americans compared to African Americans. Intersting, I say. All from pushing i's and e's... who would have thought!

GDS said...

I took it twice. First time - moderate preference for European American compared to African America.

Then I took it a few hours later and had little to no automatic preference.

Not sure what that proves, but the second time I got myself in a groove and probably answered every picture and word in the exact same time frame.

Anonymous said...

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African American compared to European American!

Jeremy said...

The first time I took it, I had a slight European preference, but I took it a second time, convinced that the test is rigged, and got a strong preference to Europeans! Hmmm....

Sara Laughs said...

"Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for European American compared to African American."

I wonder though how much of that is brain pattern related rather than actual preference.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm .... it says I have a strong automatic preference toward European Americans. I say it's rigged!