Internal Bias Test

[Camus the Noble]

This is a test designed by Harvard psychologists to test automatic internal bias. It works by measuring how quickly you associate one race/religion/etc with "good" words (such as "peace," "love") compared to bad words ("hate," "humiliate"). The link is https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/index.jsp Very interesting... and humbling.

Fortunately, the test states that I have little to no preference toward or against Arab Muslims or gay people as opposed to straght people. Unfortunately, I appear to slightly prefer Judaism over the immensely broad category "other religions" and tend to conflate females with "family" and males with "career."

Now, these test results may upset you. Please don't get mad at me if you don't like your results.

[Hawk Thanatos]

Race - No automatic preference between white people and black people
Age - slight automatic preference towards young people
Gender-Science - slight link between male and science and female and liberal arts
Weight - strong automatic preference for thin people
Sexuality - slight automatic preference for straight people
Countries - moderate automatic preference for Australia over USA

[Camus the Noble]

Hmm... judging solely from my last test, the results don't seem to work as well as one might think. I took the presidential test, and it pitted Abraham Lincoln against George W. Bush. Now, I loathe Dubya with a burning passion, and, while Lincoln isn't my favorite president, I do respect him a great deal.

The test said I had no preference. :lol:

But, to be fair, maybe presidential preference really isn't the right thing to measure. Liking or disliking politicians takes conscious thought, even though the whole point of these tests is to measure subconscious bias.

[Krawnik]

I don't know that this test is entirely accurate. It said I have a strong preference for the United States as compared to Canada. Which I can tell you, is entirely untrue.
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[John Layfield]

I went about halfway through the first test before realising the entire thing is highly flawed in many aspects.

It seems to assume that by making you answer quickly by tapping one of two keys while switching the cateogries that related to each key that when you make a reflexive mistake that it is your 'true internal bias' shining through.

Which anyone with any sort of knowledge of such matters, and I'm not even talking about qualifications, I'm talking knowledge, should know is a crock.
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[Arcana]

[Child of The Sea God]

My results for a test are: Your data suggest little or no association between European American and Asian American with American and Foreign.

I'm confused about my results can anyone explain to me what they mean, ty?

On another note: Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African American compared to White American. Sort of interesting right there because I'm neither african american or european american. Then I took the skin tone test and they said i perfer lights over darks but doesn't that sort of contradict my results for the african/european test?
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[Parallax]

[Arcana]

[Parallax]

That's a fair assessment. But if some of the mistakes that you might make are actually proving their point, we'll never know, since the errant responses foul up the data, rather than complementing it, according to repeated warnings on the test itself. I would say, rather, that once they force you to start thinking about where you have to put some of the items, you're actually supposed to slow down enough to not make any mistakes, and from that point, if you respond faster when one of them is paired with good rather than the other, that probably indicates some sort of automatic bias towards that item.

In any case, it's most definitely an interesting concept. I doubt that they would go to the trouble of creating the thing if there was no science backing it up. I haven't poked around the site looking for the actual papers explaining their data gathering either, but I'm confident enough that there's a link there, I probably don't need to read through all their material.
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[Scarlet Assassin]

According to this I have no preferences concerning anything at all. What a boring person I must be.
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