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Friday, June 8, 2007

   Implicit Association
I took a very interesting online test today. It is sponsored by Harvard University (I'm sure you've heard of that school before). It is called Project Implicit. It uses word and picture association to determine if you have any automatic preference between 2 groups. I took the test comparing European American to African American. At the end of the test, they show what the results of their testing has been as well as your individual results. I assumed there would be some preference to European-American in the overall results, but was surprised to see how much. Over 50% of americans had moderate or strong preference towards european-americans. Add in slight preference & it goes up to 70%. I hope that we are making progress towards a less prejudiced society, but this sudy shows we still haave a long ways to go.

There were a number of other tests available as well. I do not recall what they all were but they included age, race, gender, sexuality and others. There were over a dozen overall. Here is a link if you want to go try it out (choose 'Demonstration' if you want to take on of the tests):
https://implicit.harvard.edu

Just don't blame me if you don't get the result you wanted. Feel free to e-mail or PM me if you want to know what my personal results of the test were. I am interested to see how other people do - especially people who are native to countries other than the U.S.

Excuse me, but I have to go now. I hear a hot tub calling my name. ^_^

Until next time.

-bunraku
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