2010-09-12: Implicit Association Test: are you racist?

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Take the “Skin-tone”, “Race”, “Asian”, IAT: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/takeatest.html

Then you can try the one about sexuality, and other ones about other minorities.

It is well known that people don’t always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology.

This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.

One of the reasons we never use te concept of “race” on this site, is that races do not exist. It a make-pretend concept that has no scientific validity whatsoever.

But racism exists, and we will need to raise our internationally adopted children in the awareness of racism, without giving in into the prejudices that races do exist… because that would mean we agree with the racists on their fundamentally flawed view of the world.

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  1. I am not a racist, but this test says I am.
    I really think it is biased because it gets you used to answering good=white and then it makes you think black=bad!
    They should try the test the other way round and the results would be the other way round!
    Blacks can be racist too.

    (Admin edit: we do not support the use of racist terms in this reply, reducing people to a skin color and pretending that it has a global scientific sigificance. I suppose the test is using the same racist terms of color black/white, but we do not support that either!)

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