Tuesday, October 31, 2006

You can run, but you can't hide ...

Have you ever seriously asked yourself how racist, misogynistic or homophobic you are? Do you think there might be some incongruence between what you think about yourself and your subconscious beliefs?

Here's a test to answer all those questions: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/
It's brilliantly designed so as more aware you are of your bias and try to correct for it, the more biased you end up being.

I took a few of the tests and here's what I got:
  • slight bias towards African Americans vs. European Americans
  • slight bias towards men in science vs. women in science
  • automatic (strong) bias towards gay couples vs. straight couples
  • moderate bias towards Judaism vs. other religions
  • automatic bias for other nationalities/religions vs. Arab/Muslim
No references will be made here about someone's roommate's biases ...

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