Harvard's Implicit Association Test-- Are You a Racist? Post Your Results
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I last took this years ago-- I'd say 2003ish-- and scored a moderate preference for African Americans.
I had some family take it recently and was disappointed with the results-- most scored a preference for European Americans and some even explicitly self-identified as prefering European Americans.
I just took it now for the first time in at least five years and "Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for African American compared to European American."
I wasas I went through it... I would honestly prefer not to have a bias and don't like that it grew stronger. I guess I prefer that bias to a self-hating bias but I'd rather be able to judge people as people.
The only reason I retook the test just now was so I could access this graphic of the typical results:
The overwhelming majority of both blacks and whites score a bias in favor of European Americans.
Nothing changed.
"Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for African American compared to European American."
I wish there was a percentile breakdown.
You do know that the "we" with a pro-black bias/preference is likely not all black, right?Just 12% of us we have to build with according to that pic
That's good odds right there.
I have data. I already posted it and it's where you got that number from.Are you assuming?
Or do you have data?
Not the building part, the "us" part.So how does that invalidate what I was saying about building?
Just like the 70% of respondents who have a pro-white bias are not all white, for the 12% with a pro-black bias to all be black is illogical knowing you have black people in the pro-white group.
But if the data already posted isn't enough for you, we can look further into the numbers:
The tests were better predictors of many behaviors than people's explicit opinions were. They predicted preferences on matters of public policy -- even ideological affiliations. Banaji and others soon developed tests for bias against gays, women and foreigners. The bias tests, which have now been taken by more than 2 million people, 90 percent of them American, and used in hundreds of research studies, have arguably revolutionized the study of prejudice. In their simplicity, the tests have raised provocative questions about this nation's ideal of a meritocracy and the nature of America's red state/blue state political divide. Civil rights activists say the tests have the potential to address some of the most corrosive problems of American society; critics, meanwhile, have simultaneously challenged the results and warned they could usher in an Orwellian world of thought crimes. Banaji has received death threats from supremacist groups; sensing that the tests can detect secrets, officials from the Central Intelligence Agency have made discreet inquiries.
The results of the millions of tests that have been taken anonymously on the Harvard Web site and other sites hint at the potential impact of the research. Analyses of tens of thousands of tests found 88 percent of white people had a pro-white or anti-black implicit bias; nearly 83 percent of heterosexuals showed implicit biases for straight people over gays and lesbians; and more than two-thirds of non-Arab, non-Muslim volunteers displayed implicit biases against Arab Muslims.
Overall, according to the researchers, large majorities showed biases for Christians over Jews, the rich over the poor, and men's careers over women's careers. The results contrasted sharply with what most people said about themselves -- that they had no biases. The tests also revealed another unsettling truth: Minorities internalized the same biases as majority groups. Some 48 percent of blacks showed a pro-white or anti-black bias; 36 percent of Arab Muslims showed an anti-Muslim bias; and 38 percent of gays and lesbians showed a bias for straight people over homosexuals.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27067-2005Jan21.html
If basically half of black respondents are pro-white, there's absolutely no way that the 12% is strictly black.
During the IAT you just completed:
Your responses suggested a strong automatic preference for Black people over White people.
Your responses suggested a strong automatic preference for Black people over White people.
Take the test and post your results.
Just had to cite this to explain black people can be anti-black...
you're full of shit.
I'm anti-black says the man naming himself after his white daddy.
you're a sensitive, coon bish that goes to kramer shows to get your bussy wet.
That test is a mindFUCK for Black People..., isn't that the same Harvard who fired their Black President for not supporting Israel to the level they wanted her to support Israel in their genocidal behavior? (note: they had to use plagiarism to get her outta there)
That's like an enslaver asking the enslaved humans to rate their accommodations on the plantation.
That's like an enslaver asking the enslaved humans to rate their accommodations on the plantation.