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Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

joebrockhaus — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:09:00 -0000

My results had nothing to do with race :-x

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Progress compared to Restore.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Atheism compared to Religious Beliefs.

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Guest — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:16:52 -0000

I'm "white", and this was my result:

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

That makes sense to me; I grew up very critical of "white" culture. Some people say we're all racist, but Project Implicit says it's only a majority of people that are: "75-80% of self-identified Whites and Asians show an implicit preference for racial White relative to Black."

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

catsav — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00:15 -0000

I felt like my results had less to do with my beliefs & attitudes and more to do with the 'training' your brain gets doing the first rounds. My test was male/female + science/liberal arts, not the race & bad/good words as in the example. I quickly 'learned' that 'men go on the left' or 'liberal arts goes on the right' .. so when they switched it around, I got all goofed up. Had nothing to do with what I thought about any of those associations. That's my take, anyway.

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

stephanie mei-ling — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:07:46 -0000

My results were:

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Black People compared to White People.

whatever that means...

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Adam Ostrow — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:56:17 -0000

no, people just need something to complain about :-) the test is interesting to those who haven't seen it before, hence, why I posted it ...

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

lesbryant — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:50:26 -0000

Yes, I do remember these from grad school but, is it automatically useless because it is not "new?" I also believe fatigue of test taker clouds results. Nevertheless, I was pleased to see I have no racial preferences. Hey, the societal color-blindness line starts here. :D

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Molly_Mac — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:48:17 -0000

As a white woman in her 40's.

I don't think I have a preference one over the other. Harvard thinks otherwise ;)

According to the IAT- I have a slight automatic preference toward black people, However, I made two errors when they changed the E, I keys (I am left handed, not sure if handedness played a roll).

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Foodie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:29:44 -0000

That's the problem, you say that, and you also hate black people.

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Foodie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:29:14 -0000

Seriously. Someone should make a graph - how viral your site title is to when it is likely to be featured on Mashable. This happens a lot - They are really struggling for news today, huh?

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Brad F. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:11:03 -0000

It gave me a different test. It had to do with preferences for Hope vs Duty and Community vs Individuality. I couldn't find any test about race. Regardless, this is what I got for the one I took:

"Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Community compared to Individual.

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Hope compared to Duty."

Does this make me an idealistic communist?

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Kanon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:45:44 -0000

I have no personal race prejudice. I don't think it is important to have a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race. Except you are self-abased.

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Henry — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:29:37 -0000

that's so cool
i wanna give this test a try
thanks for your post

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

random — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:01:00 -0000

It got me wrong anyway.

After telling my brain to do it one way, of course doing it the opposite way is going to prove challenging. The only way they could have any type of results of merit is if they do the exam the opposite way round on the same number of people and compare the two.

My experience is reflected in the stats at the end of it btw..

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

davetan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:48:20 -0000

I read about it in Blink too. It tests the subconscious and the results showed that even if the conscious mind thinks it is unbiased, the subconscious mind often shows some level of racism.

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

ezrijadzia — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:43:07 -0000

It tests more than just racial preferences. The first one I took was rich people vs. poor people.

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Rey0208 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:28:13 -0000

I heard about this in first year psych class. They've been doing this for years.

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Fede T — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:00:05 -0000

This is old. I first heard of this back when Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink came out years ago and took them online on Harvard's website.

Re: Project Implicit: Harvard Website Tests Your Racial Preferences

Anees Younis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:57:17 -0000

Ok, I'll give this a go now, I hope I'm not biased towards a particular race, wish me luck!