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Clove
06-30-2007, 07:29 PM
I've been playing around with these tests for about a year now and I find them fascinating.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/

Since there was quite a bit of recent posting on racism and the earliest IAT's were on implicit associations of racial characteristics I thought I'd post the link to Harvard's project on them.

I hope you find them as interesting as I did and I'd be interested in what anyone thinks about them.
TheEschaton
06-30-2007, 08:25 PM
Your Result
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Arab Muslims and Other People.
Jayvn
06-30-2007, 08:28 PM
ya , I have little difference between males and females in science and literature or something... it wasn't as distracting as I'd hoped.
Stanley Burrell
06-30-2007, 08:33 PM
I said I prefer older people as in, like, doable womens two or three years older than me with finely aged talents. Bah.

This thing told me I was never helping the elderly cross the street out of sincerity and that I put hexes on nursing homes. Not true, not true. BAH, 2x.

I'm'a do a different one :(
Clove
06-30-2007, 08:36 PM
Well apparently I only have a slight preference for other presidents over George W. Bush. I'm so ashamed.
TheEschaton
06-30-2007, 09:03 PM
Only a moderate preference for Abe Lincoln over Dubya, ugh.

-TheE-
Latrinsorm
06-30-2007, 10:26 PM
I think it would be way more interesting to see how automatic the link between "good" and "bad" and some of the proposed choices aligned with those categories are. The two I recall immediately are "pleasure" and "humiliate".
Clove
06-30-2007, 11:16 PM
I think it would be way more interesting to see how automatic the link between "good" and "bad" and some of the proposed choices aligned with those categories are. The two I recall immediately are "pleasure" and "humiliate".

I would be surprised to find many people who couldn't quickly associate as concepts "good" with "pleasure" and "humiliate" with "bad". Even if someone were confused by them, I believe the test is designed to account for this by looking for a variance in your reaction time to concepts as they are "grouped" with other concepts. If you have trouble associating "humiliate" with "bad" then you should have the same trouble connecting those concepts whether or not "bad" is grouped with "George W." or "Abe Lincoln". Make sense?
TheEschaton
06-30-2007, 11:20 PM
He's trying to say he'd like to see how strong some people connect two seemingly opposite feelings, IE "pleasure" and "humiliate", or perhaps you mean "pain" and "happy"?

You sick S&M freak. ;)

-TheE-
Clove
06-30-2007, 11:50 PM
He's trying to say he'd like to see how strong some people connect two seemingly opposite feelings, IE "pleasure" and "humiliate", or perhaps you mean "pain" and "happy"?

You sick S&M freak. ;)

-TheE-

Why test for it? Just go to your nearest leather bar and count :D