not racist at all. But apparently, I am! I just took the IAT online which is basically an unconscious measure of your preference for european or african americans. My result was that I strongly preferred european americans. It takes about 8 minutes and is well worth it. Post your results and talk about how valid you think they are!
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/takeatest.html
Go to "Take a Demo Test" and choose RACE IAT.
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My results were: Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between African American and European American.
ReplyDeleteAnd although I'm sure that the psychologists at Harvard, Yale, UVA, etc. are a lot smarter than me, I think that the fact that I treated the activity like a cognitive test may have affected my scores. Obviously, they were looking for people to quickly and consistently categorize words that had a positive or negative connotation to one specific group.
In my opinion, the obviousness of that task made it more like a test for me. I wanted to be as correct as possible in the portion where each racial category was correlated with either good or bad connotations and put on one side of the box. Although I'm obviously happy with my results, I also think that it may not have been the most accurate form of testing for me personally.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for European American compared to African American.
ReplyDeleteIn taking the test, I found that I got very confused with the headings and words/pictures. I thought the format was an interesting approach to identifying racism and social preferences.
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Claire that some of the data could be skewed due to the participant’s attempt to be impartial. Also, the negative words were initially correlated to pictures of African Americans because they were placed on the same key. I think that this could be a factor in the results because the same words and pictures were used throughout the survey. By connecting the pictures of African Americans to the key that has a negative association the participant is more apt to correlate negative words to African Americans later in the study.
I think that it would be interesting to see if the results would vary if the good words were initially correlated to pictures of African Americans. This would determine if the choices were based more on race than on initial relationships between bad and good words and white and African Americans.
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between African American and European American.
ReplyDeleteLike Clare I thought that the test intended to discover association between negative/ positive meanings and facial features which probably biased my results. This being said, I do not feel that I tried to make such associations in the first place. I used the screen as reference for processing and in this way changes hardly affected my performance.