The challenge: take an Implicit Association Test at www.implicit.harvard.edu and blog about the results. Parts of the thread will be published in the September 2006 issue.
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Your data suggest a moderate association of Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts compared to Female with Science and Male with Liberal Arts.
Same as Zallie. But . . . I think there might be a bit of inaccuracy having to do with getting conditioned to those being the same key first.
I always have trouble with the forms because when It says political views it never has an option for “I’d probably be an anarchist if I wasn’t such a pessimist.”
~Luna
The above statement made 0 sense when glanced at quickly. Upon further examination, it was clear that the creature was attempting to communicate.
*strikes thoughtful pose*
Should I attempt to translate my own post?
1st part: I got the same result as Zallie. Because I got used to Male and Science being on the same side, I think that messed me up when it switched. The system is imperfect.
2nd part: Filling out online forms that ask for my political view is annoying because it doesn’t really fall on the liberal to conservative spectrum.
It’s late. I’m incoherent. I’m putting off my Dante paper. And my concept play about Prince Charming. Don’t mind me too much.
~Luna
I was actually talking about Zallie’s post.
It seems to me that, because “black” and “bad” both start with the letter “b,” while taking the test it is easier to remember when these two are together than when “black” is with “good.” This would give “Black or Bad” a shorter time than “Black or Good,” even if you aren’t prejudiced, therefore throwing off the results of the test.
More later (maybe…)
I have
1. black and white: no preference
2. gay and straight: slight preference for gay people
3. fat and thin: slight preference for thin people
4. women and men (liberal vs. science): slight association of women with science
5. Bush and Kennedy: strong preference for Kennedy
I think the women and men one was because my mom’s a chemistry teacher, and when I see the word mother, than chemistry, I put them on the same side.
Thanks, Jordan. And welcome to the blog!
I slightly prefer young people, and i slightly prefer the US over the UK. Haven’t taken any others yet. didn’t fill out any of the extra stuff either luna.
i’ll take some more later…maybe…
i like this contest…it’s something a lazy procrastinator like me can do…
Ah. That was the result, word-for-word, that Zallie and I both got when doing one of the tests.
~Luna
I took three!!! It was SO cool, (that’s why I took three)
Ahem–I have:
1. (1) [1] {1} Little to no automatic preference between Black and White Americans
2. (10) [2] {2} A moderate automatic preference of Other Religions over Judaeism (How the heck do you spell that??)
3. (11) [3] {3} A slight automatic preference of Asian Americans as American and European Americans as being Foreign as opposed to European Americans as American and Asian Americans as Foreign (Which means that I think that Asian Americans are more American than European Americans). I am not Asian American I am a European American mutt (which means that my Europeanness is very mixed among nationalities, but is predominantly English) (just to make sure [so for most European Americans, this is a very weird result]). I’m just freakishly obbsessed w/ Japan.
Me: (these are phonetic equivalents [sort of] of Japanese characters) Ohayo!!
Person: ???
Me: Ogenki desu ka?
Person: ???
Me: OGENKI DESU KA!!!
Person: ???
Me: *throws hands in air and drops books, looks around embarassed and picks up books, then walks away in disgust*
Later
Me: Ore wa otaku gozen!!!
Friend (and similarly obssessed one): Ore wa otaku gozen!!!
Me: Ohayo!
Friend: Ohayo!
Me: Ogenki desu ka?
Friend: Hai! Ogenki desu ka?
Me: Hai! Otaku wa doko desu ka?
Both: Ore wa otaku gozen!!! *laughs uproariously*
Bonus points to anyone who can figure out what we mean, if I’m phoneticizing this with the right number of repeated letters, what time it is, and whether me and my friend think that ‘otaku’ is a good or bad thing!
Good luck
–bcavefish or 223ankher
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It asked me all about my opinions on wrinkles and plastic surgery. I’m kind of weirded out now.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Public compared to Private.
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Skirts and Pants.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Tea compared to Coffee.
I feel like my intermost secrets are being revealed.
I think the test was pretty cool but harder than I expected, especially when they flipped the side.
I showed a slight automatic preference for Lincoln over Bush, which really surprised me because I really hate Bush. Weird.
By the way, I’m glad you published that letter in the new issue that talked about MuseBlog because I hadn’t heard anything about it before and its really cool!
If anyone is wondering why I’m here so early its because we have a snow day! HOORAY!
you know, the more i think about it, the more unfair the test seems because after they flip the sides and groupings it takes more thought to switch over to using the different keys, resulting in a slightly slower reaction time. thats just what i think. if that makes any sense.
i haven’t gotten this muse yet… do you mean parts of this thread will be published? that would be so cool! then i wouldn’t have to mail anything!
what are we supposed to do? i didn’t get the mag yet but still…
1. Your data suggest a strong association of European American with American and Asian American with Foreign compared to Asian American with American and European American with Foreign.
2. Your data suggest a moderate association of Male with Career and Female with Family compared to Female with Career and Male with Family.
3. Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Dark Skin and Light Skin. (Yep, I hate them all the same!)
4. Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Judaism compared to Other Religions. (Hardly surprising, considering I AM Jewish…)
5. Your data suggest a slight association of Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts compared to Female with Science and Male with Liberal Arts.
6. Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Young compared to Old. (I hate old people! Shoot me now!)
7. Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Thomas Jefferson compared to George W. Bush. (I hate Bush. He’s an idiot.)
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Also for extra bonus points, tell me what four numbering systems I used on my post!
(go blind cavefish!!! [anybody know A cavefish I can be friends with? {*laughs* just kidding}])
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Some more:
1. Your data suggest a slight automatic identification with Pepsi compared to Coke. (Funny, I prefer Coke.)
2. Your data suggest a mederate automatic identification with Itelligent People compared to Athletic People. ( I know a lot of very smart people who are also athletic)
3. Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Jews compared to Christians. (I wonder why)
Maybe I’ll do more later.
This is what the test said when I took the racial one.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for European American compared to African American.
I feel really bad about it now. I try to act equally and I’m pretty sure I do; I have Hispanic as well as European friends. I don’t really know many black people but try to be as nice to them as I am to European Americans. Unless, of course, they’re total jerks. Then I treat them as I treat any jerks: with contempt and masked insults. I really do feel sorry for total jerks though, sometimes. Their lives are so pointless and shallow that they have to sink to jerkiness to feel fulfilled.
Regular numbering and binary. {Although i don’t know what was up with the fancy brackets.}
I got kinda off topic, didn’t I?
This is what I got on the Male/Female Career/Family IAT test.
Your data suggest a moderate association of Female with Career and Male with Family compared to Male with Career and Female with Family.
I think its because my mom and dad both work, but I’m more familar and more associated with my mom’s work. But both my parents are family people. If I could do male and female for family, and male and female for career as well, I would. But then there wouldn’t be much point to the test. Hmmm…….
There were a few of the tests that I felt I wouldn’t be good at because I don’t know much about a certain topic. Example: some of the tests want me to recognize places associated with different cultures. Except for the things I’ve done in Social Studies, I don’t know much about places in other countries.
My Abled/Disabled Persons test said:
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Disabled Persons compared to Abled Persons.
I think its because my mom works with disabled kids as her job, and I sometimes go to work with her. I have made friends with some of her students, or at least feel compassion for them.
Sphinx: Hooray, you’re a Bush-hater! High-five!
I can’t get to the site
I want to take the tests though…
will this REALLy be published in the sept issue of the most holy magazine in the world?
i got all cannot be determined on mine.
i wonder why
conservatives are evil (at least their political view is)
bush is incompetent and conservative, therefore i am a bush hater
(bush isnt that conservative though, he is just bent on desroying the enviroment and helping his rich friends and not at all poor people.)( other things too but i dont feel like typing them)
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Black compared to White.
hmm. i thought i was equal. weeeird. ah well. i just dont like putting the nasty stuff in bad + black, and kept putting whites in the bad collom regardless. grr.. annoying test w/ unexpected results. heeehee.
im white peoples just so u know.
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Disabled Persons and Abled Persons.
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Straight People compared to Gay People.
I wonder about some of these results. Are you all really taking the tests as fast as possible? If you think too long about what you’re doing, it won’t measure implicit associations.
I’d also like to see more male/female test results. Those should be interesting.
what are we supposed to do???
Mr. /Mrs. Kricket, you are supposed to go to the demonstion button, and than from there you will see, I hope, what to do.
I only took the Race test, (sorry Mr. Coontze, but I’m writing this before school and I’m running out of time,) and I got a result that said I have a slight preference towards Whites. Now, I’d like to say it’s wrong, but being white myself, I presume it is right. Not that I don’t like blacks, but but not getting this result is like liking a freind better than yourself. Remember, it said slight.
I should add that nobody is sure what these tests mean. Getting a particular result doesn’t necessarily show that you’re a bad person or that you treat people differently in real life. Maybe we can get an expert on the blog to explain what the scores do (or might) mean.
My test said that I have a strong preference for light skinned people, but I don’t. I will only like people if they are not jerks and they at least treat me with respect. That could be anyone. But I only know white people, so I couldn’t really say.
Again, the test isn’t saying anything about you personally–just about how you completed the task it set under the conditions it imposed. All the rest is interpretation. Why don’t you take it again and see how consistent the results are?
I only couldn’t process the results in my head fast enough, my eyes were bugging out, and I was hungry. My brain flopped. My life isn’t treating me too well right now either. Sorry for the excuses, but alot is on my mind.
I apparently have a strong preference for gay people. I suppose that makes sense. (I’m bi.) Still, I thought I was somewhat neutral. Would explain why I have so many gay friends though. I guess I just gravitated to them.
*is yanked by gravity*
~Luna
I was completely honest in mine. I went as fast as I could, trying to do everything right. Really. Honest.
ok, i am so confused. it said i slightly preferred blacks to whites. whats up with that?!?!?!?!?! im half caucasian, half korean, but more white than moderate or black. most of the troublemakers at our school are black kids, so my mom said that my results might say ‘you prefer european americans to african americans’. try reversing it! those were my results. this thing is so jacked up. ha ha ha i have absolutely no idea why im laughing cause now i have to contemplate my life and all i have ever believed in.
How the heck does this test even work. Plus, I’m sure that a lot of people who take the writen part of this test, when they ask you if you think whites should be chosen first for jobs, will say thay they don’t think so. For one, most people have a kind heart. So they are not going to answer these questions meanly. I just don’t see how the writen part of the test does anything to help.
The test doesn’t really show what you prefer though does it? More what you recognize…
Wow…i have a moderate preference for dark skin..and i’m so completely white…
interesting test, this…
Your data suggests a slight automatic preference for Denzel Washington compared to Tom Cruise.
Hmmm…I wonder why? Must be that eensy beensy little fact that I HAAAAATE the scientologist, old git. Race = schmase. I just hate the actor.
Oh and looky! Rather bloody lovely score on the race test:
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Dark Skin and Light Skin.
Too bad that I don’t care… .>.-.
when i did them i tried as fast as i could and i got about half x’s. hmmmmm. maybe thts why i got noresults
The big troublemakers at my school are white. But the blacks are higher up there than you’d hope. And sometimes people are jerks. And sometimes they are even jerkier than jerks. And I don’t know why I’m talking about that.
And I call European Americans and African Americans white and black because its quicker to type, not because I don’t respect them.
has anybody put the link back on? I took the email off and all……. (please [*puppy dog look*] please? please? PLEASE? thanks!)
uhhhh… i’m a GIRL… Someone out there, just so you know, i’m a GIRL… and i am certainly NOT married!!!
i took the weight one. it was strange… it said:
“Your data suggests that you have a slight automatic preference to Thin People than to Fat people.”
sort of true… not that i know many nice fat people anyways. and it’s an AUTOMATIC preference. i can’t help it!!! what?
Your data suggest a moderate association of Asian American with American and European American with Foreign compared to European American with American and Asian American with Foreign.
Okay, there were a few problems with this test. One was that I’m horrible at landmarks; I kept putting the curvy thingy as foreign and the stick thingy as foreign and the first time I put stonehenge as American, and I know it’s in Scotland or somewhere around there, but I had kind of gotten into a rut.. I also couldn’t figure out whether some of the people were caucasian or asian.. I kept hitting the wrong side for one guy in particular. what would really not be fair would be putting pictures of people like me on there (I’m half asian) and then asking us to sort them. I don’t really look that asian (light skin, green eyes, brown hair), but I’ve had people identify me (correctly) as Japanese before.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Recent Presidents compared to George W. Bush.
What a big surprise.
I tried the test, but then suddenly had to go somewhere and didn’t finish. But already, I could see that it was easy to match up White and Good, Black and Bad, and difficult to match up White and Bad, Black and Good. I feel terrible.
If we are not personally prejudiced, but we get prejudiced answers, then is there someone else to blame? Society? TV? Early life experiences?
In the spirit of the bias committee, I say that the Muse cover designer staff is prejudiced. A flesh-colored crayon with a medium-light color was made to stand out from the other, darker and lighter crayons, thereby presenting the subconscious image that people with that color of skin are BETTER!
Did I do a good job of sounding like a group of paranoid idiots?
i cant figure it out,
what do you click on after the link?
Okay, i got the mag last night. FINALLY! And i’m going to try to do the IAT. After I’m done fryng my brain out.
Nice letter Montygurl. But you forgot to mention that Pwt is a Gethenian from the planet Gethen. Totally. Don’t those muses know anything? And GAPA, you had better keep this thread at the top of the blog, or those poor ignorant souls attempting to enter this contest will leave their entries all over the place. I can imagine the poor Musishy peoples slogging through thousands of posts looking for coherent information. And speaking of entering the contest, why were the usual rules posted when they don’t apply to this contest.
I took the test and it said I was neutral. But I so didn’t feel that way!
I really don’t think black people are drug-loving gangsters who willl rob you when you turn your back, but I don’t believe either that whites are goody-goody great people!
The test made me feel like racial meanie-person who calls people “niggers” and other unmentionable words that might get me in trouble. The IAT is made to make people racial paranoid, and now I feel like if I don’t watch it, I’ll start calling people things that my good concious mind doesn’t agree with, but makes my absolutley eville subconcious self laugh evilly.
It was so hard to match up white with bad! It made me feel terrible. And then I took the one on gay/straight people, I don’t even want to discuss those results. I’ll just say I don’t really like gays. . .
I don’t understand how in the world that it says I have an automatic prefrence for whites! i think those people lie.
Those people probably think that americans prefer white people since i did it as white person and a black person and it said that i prefered whites both times. THEY’RE the prejudice ones.
Okay, I took the male-female test. It said I slightly associate men with sciences and women with liberal arts. It may be slightly innacurate, becuase I tended to want to put everything in the wrong catagory. I was putting words like “wife” in the male catagory, and so on. Maybe I just click too much.
Having just taken 10 of the 14 Implicit Association Tests (You may be wondering why I didn’t just take the last four if I was already crazy enough to take ten of them…well. I gave up on one test, I just kept on making too many @*#! mistakes, I couldn’t #@*&!@ tell them apart ARGH! One I just thought was stupid. One I didn’t get at all. And the other, I was kind of afraid to see what my results would be, so I skipped it), I’ve chosen to post about one of the results I got, and have chosen the test that started it all in Muse: Race.
Results: Your data suggests a moderate automatic preferance for European-Americans to African-Americans.
To tell the truth…I don’t think I was anywhere near as surprised or horrified by finding out that I’m moderately prejudiced against black people as one would expect. In fact, I wasn’t surprised at all.
HOWEVER.
In saying that, I do not mean that I or any of my friends or relatives is racist. I do not mean that I consciously prefer white people to black. I just mean that, I’m not surprised, I was almost expecting it.
So, why, oh why, was I not shocked to discover my racism? Let me explain. It’s not that I have anything against black people–it’s just that I don’t come into much contact with them. There are 220 people in my class. A -VERY small- majority is Asian, then Caucasian, then Hispanic/Latino, then Arab-American, then others races (e.g.: Native American)…by far, though, the minority is African-Americans. Out of all 220, I only know of 5 African-Americans–and this includes people who are visibly part African-American, if not completely–this includes anyone who clearly has African-American ancestry. And those 5 people…out of all of them, I only come into regular contact with 2, and I’m not particularly closer friends with any of them–NOT because of their race, but because I just don’t get along with them as well as I get along with others. I’m quite mixed, and since some of my family has been in America since well before the American Revolution, we can’t quite be sure, but, THAT I KNOW OF, I have no African-American ancestry–and there are no African-Americans in my family. I don’t know very many of the other people in my neighborhood, generally I don’t come into contact much with people other than my classmates and my family, so…I just don’t have much contact with African-Americans. Thus…I’m just not quite as familiar with them as I am with people of other races. So…finding out that I prefer whites to blacks was no great shock.
Even though I am pretty liberal and extremely opposed to racism, I’ve always kind of suspected that I have some slight subconscious racial prejudices. For example…if I can’t find a place and I need to ask for directions, and I see a white woman and a black woman, I will almost always walk up to the white woman first, unless there is something else about the black woman (e.g.: she has a child with her, she is a police officer, etc.) that makes me deem her more trustworthy than the white woman. On a bus or train, I’m more likely to sit down near a white person than a black. If I’m staring at someone on a bus or a train or the street, more often than white, the person is black–and I look away much more quickly when s/he catches me looking at him/her if the s/he is black.
I don’t look at European-Americans as better than African-Americans. I don’t think that all blacks are violent, trash-talking, drug-loving gangsters or that all whites are honest, good, well-meaning civilians. I’m just not as familiar with black people as I am with white, as I scarcely ever come into contact with blacks–and everything in the media doesn’t help, either, but that’s another story.
Myself? I’m an international mutt. I have European, Asian, Hispanic, and American Indian ancestry–I always say I’m Caucasian, since I look more Caucasian than anything. So, I guess I’m white. And…consciously, I have no problem with blacks whatsoever, and I’m against racism and any other form of discrimination.
Still…I can’t say I found the results to be a complete shock.
It’s an interesting test, at any rate. And, even though you said it yourselves, there’s no way we can really be sure just how accurate it is…I, for one, actually think it makes sense. And find it pretty believable.
My opinion.
*WHOA…LOOOOOOOONG COMMENT…sorry.*
It would have helped a little if everyone didnt seem grey in the test, but it said I had a “Moderate” whateve the heck it. But if I may point out I had music going……
I kept hitting all the wrong buttons, and ended up with a slight automatic preference for whites over blacks. But I was tired. I’ll take it again, if I ever find the time or will.
Excuse me, shadow049, but what the heck are you talking about. And also, sorry kricket, I guess I wasn’t thinking. It was a wednsday…three tests, though I admit I really wasn’t thinking about them, and it was *8:28*, not 9:28, like it said. Just don’t feel offended.
I took a different test after reading all these comments about all the different tests. I took the one on elderly people vs. young people, and it said that I like older people a bit better. I concurr ( It’s vocab word. Maybe I can show this to my Language arts teacher and she’ll give me extra credit points). I always enjoyed sitting around and listening to stories, rather than playing with other kids.
However, again, I am mad at the test. The stupid snapshots of the people were so close, sometimes it was impossible to tell young from old, and then the red ex would flash, and then I would panick, thinking that “that was the last error that the test would allow,” and then I would make another mistake, and then my dad was telling me to get off the com;uter because we had to go somewhere, and then, and then , and then…it was over.
But anyways, there you go.
The time is *******10:30*******, not 11:30. That goes for the one before this, too.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for European American compared to African American.
blech…
Mine said:
You have an automatic preference for White people
I don’t agree, but I wonder if the test was made to make you really think about it, not be worried about your results.
hey meredith #61-i think that is a big part of it. in my skool…well the minorities are still minorities i guess but they’re large minorities. I meet a lot of black people and a lot of white people and it seems to me that (in general terms of course) white people can be a lot more sneaky and stuff like that (no offense anybody). Black people seem more open and friendly. Don’t know why. But there you go.
Ebeth you’re probably right.
and i’ll bet that post #61 will get posted on the mag. just a guess.
I don’t come in contact with black people much either……There’s maybe six in my grade, but I don’t really know them. And one’s a really mean jerk. And one of the others was on my soccer team once and was really annoying. So that’s about it.
How come there aren’t race tests for other races, There is not a single one on Mexicans. I live in Arizona, and they are a great percentage of them here.
If I click on the muse contest from teh home page, it only comes up with 61 comenats. But if I click on it from the side bar, it comes up with 73. Strange
dang! the race one was hard! It said “Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White compared to Black.” According to this, a day in my life looks like this: (I wish not to offend anyone)
I walk up to a black guy. This white guy comes up as well.
White guy: “Hey”
Black guy:”Hello”
me: “Hey white guy. Black guy, buzz off!”
Black guy: “HEY!!!!!”
White guy:”Come on, black guy, It’s his subconscius speaking”
Black guy: strows punch at white guy
Black guy and white guy end up fighting over my subconcius.
Yet another day ruined by my subconscius…
I hope that doesn’t happen to me, as I attempt to not do this. I try to be racially acceptive, yet my suboconscius tells me otherwise. Maybe this is because I grew up in an all-white neighborhood with me and this other kid I didn’t know. Basically, all my time was spent at my grandparents. When I entered public school that I became aware of other races other than mine. It just seems wrong, yet I can explain why. I’d go into more detail, yet I’m taking just a few minutes to say my opinion. (“GO MILTON RUPINEES!!!”)
Ugh. I got the most boring one in the world.
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Giving and Receiving.
=___= And there’s no way I’m going through with that again.
These test are weird.
I meen come on, who honestly comes up with that sort of creepy logic. It’s scary for people like me who quite honestly can’t make their way through life even without creepy guys jumping at me with creepy tests.
And I’m not really that biased against old people either.
This is EXACTLY why we even think of prejudice! Why would we question our actions if we consciencely attempt to not prejudice. This is saying that we are prejudiced against each other naturally! According to the tests, no matter hard we try, we somehow laugh at people we don’t try to laugh at, EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who cares if I subconsciusly think that guy on the street is not as good as that other guy? It’s what I consciencsly do that counts, right?
Well spokeb (err..um..typed)
sry i meant spoken
Im going to take the test when i finish my homework, but guessing, im very prejudiced against NY Yankees (Go Red Sox!) and slightly prejudiced against chirstians…or is this just race prejudice? I guess ill find out!
Hmmm………. this test does leave you with an odd feeling…….an od feeling of being watched *shifty eyes* . Welllllllll…….here I was, isitting in the swirly chiar (that swirls)of whch i was swirling in. At irst, the test was easy, with ts little i, e categories.
Suddenly, the collums switched. “EVIL OF ALL EVILS!!!” I yelled. “I CANNOT BELIEVE IT’S NOT BUTTER!!!!!!” The scream still ringing throughout the room, I began to twitch furiously. Why, you may ask ? my brain capacity could not handle this large a change of pattern and information.
Well in the end, the answer I received was….. a moderate preferance for whites.
Goodbye, and savor the days befor the muffins come, for the muffins shall eat us all!!!!!!!
I was rather disconcerted by the test I took…it turns out that I have a moderate preference for Judiaism, despite the fact that I’m a Christian…
I’m quite curious to see what I get on the racial one, whenever I have time and brainpower enough to dare to take it.
Thanks for the compliment Darth Yoda. Your alliterations are “Hip” and “Funky Fresh” as well, dude. (ok ok i try to sound like im 40 but im not) (or am i?)
Speacking of the human brain, i couldnt find a better place to post this sooooooooooooooo:
Olny srmat poelpe can.
cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt
P.S. if you cant read it, try reading it quickly
YAEH!!!! You taotlaly rcok! ddue, how can you witre lkie tihs? I konw I srue cna’t! Or can I..? vdoermlt rckos as wlel. if you wnat to see my lcreute on Hrary Ptoetr, look in the mrcah rnaodm scotien. TFTN (or am I..?)
First, in response to comment 11, I’m going to try to decipher it because I want to score above a hundred. (is that possible?)
OGENKI DESU KA!!!= How are you?! (in a polite sense, indicated by the “o” in front of “genki”)
I can derive that it’s morning, and you think otakutachi are good and/or right. (Uh… you mean the anime obsessors, right?)
Did I get bonus points? *unsure*
Moving on…
I took the weapons test:
Your data suggest a moderate association of European American with Harmless Objects and African American with Weapons compared to African American with Harmless Objects and European American with Weapons.
Well, I have nothing to say to this considering I grew up near NYC, and…
And then in light of above the above, I took the Asian-American test. (I had actually read comment 11 last night, and felt extremely empowered to look more at my Japanese grammar book, read manga, and sleep in my Japanese pajamas (yes, authentically Japanese!)) I then scored:
Your data suggest little or no association between European American and Asian American with American and Foreign.
Well, I know Japanese are not the only nationality of Asian Americans, but I suppose my little escapade helped since those things are associated with the east.
opps
it should say
can you raed tihs? at the begeining
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for White compared to Black.
sad….i always wanted to be nonpartial
EVILZORZNESS (white)
im jes wonnerin….was this test made up of an evenly mixed racial group?
i dndit witre taht, i got it in an eimal
but i can wtire tihs way!
why do i keep doibg that?
im Ancient Thread Lurker
see if you can decipher this:
kjfkla
dhflkjahfkloas and jsakl;fjioa;t to you too sir…
osushionameatballittastesgoodyeticannotfeelmyfeetanymore.PPl!trytohelpmestartusingspacesagainbecauseikeepforgetingtoandiannoymyselfexpeciallywhenonewordbeginswiththeendletterofthepreviousworddummy!
I can’t decipher the first part. Honestly!
not true
none
is no-one
you said that
not true
none
is no-one
you said that
its saying duplicate comment so kghfjlvg
okay, this is odd…
so the test says I prefer judaism to other religions (hmm… i dunno, might be cuz i’m jewish?)
lighter skin to darker skin (i’m a mix, so this doesn’t matter)
i have no automatic preference between franklin d. roosevelt and george w. bush…. (i think that one might be wrong)
i associate females with science, and males with liberal arts (i don’t even know what that means…)
so basically, this test didn’t tell me anything at all.
whoop-de-doo…
how nice.
*ahem* waste of time
i took that race bias test for this month’s contest and got a little or no bias rating, which i was totally not expecting, bec. by the end of the test i was getting really confused bec. they kept switching around the sides that the categories went on. so i thought that there would be something. but it turned out that they weight it so that the end has less of an effect on your rating, probably bec. e/o gets confused. i thought that some of the pictures were a little misleading bec. some were sort of washed out. anyway, i think that it was a pretty good test. kudos to the harvard ppl or whoever made it, bec. even though it’s going to make a lot of ppl upset, they did it anyway.
evildude131, you want to how us what it says?
Wow, I have a slight automatic preference for whites, hmm…wonder why? O_o However, I don’t have a preference on the male/female and science/liberal arts section! Yay me!
I’m athiest, and I still subconsiously moderately prefer Judiaism?!? What is wrong with the world!?! If anything I am prejudice TOWARDS Jewish people!!! My head can’t take it!!!
Well… Um… It says words which I will not say because I cannot pronounce them (or spell them)
Oh, and… BOTHER! I’m off to the webcomic i read and it’s cool and i wont advertise it but if you happen to come to my website (also not advertising) you SHOULD find an ad for it…
My head is in several pieces on the floor. You see, it exploded after thinking. Suprisingly, I can still see.
Ok… I have duct tape. Red, Lime Green, Orange, or Classic Grey?
But seriously, WHO CARES WHAT OUR SUBCONSCIUS SAYS.
is the subconscius the part of our mind that thinks? NO. and as they say, it’s the though that counts. And if the subconscius doesn’t think, WHO CARES! It’s our conscius action that really matter! GOSH!!!!!!!!!
well i personaly took the tset 2 times 2 count’m 2 but whAT I GOT WAS THAT i dont have any prferences of jazz or teen pop music but i have a slight preforation of prodistents over catholics. but thats just me. (im a horible speller so try not to mind the mistakes) oh and by the way i love to learn about science and i know you here this all the time but your magazine is stupendusly awesome.
oh evil dude i can decifher your message but i dont feel like writeing it because it was to long (with a sing songy voice )
Alright, so I took the Weapons-Harmless objects test, and I didn’t feel like there was a racial element to it at all. it just showed faces of Black and White People, and pictures of weapons and everyday objects. i just sorted them. however, even though I associated weapons somewhat more with white people, it said that I associated weapons Dramaticly more with Black people than I did with White people!!! Does anybody else see a problem here??? Jeez :-X :-X
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alright, i’m back. i just took the racial preference test and figured out the truth. those tests aren’t based on how you complete them, but by completly confusing and scaring the testees. with the categories combined and switched around, you get confuzled (yes, that’s a real word) and messy, and you start to put things in the wrong places. then, they assign you a random bias using what you put down in the survey portion of the test, mixed with your confuzled mistakes during the timed portion. I was assigned a “non-preferenced” person, but that was because I kept accidentally putting the “bad” words in the white area, and the “good” words in the black area. I don’t know How You mail a blog with your full name and address, but I really hope this blog will get into the magazine. I must let my findings be known!!!
Well, I took the test, and I didn’t get any errors, I answered the black really fast and took my time on the white, and I answered the questions in favor of black, and when i got my score, it said that I favored pro-white! I think its rigged!
My results rather surprised me.
1. Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African American compared to European American.
Probably since I’m currently taking AP United States history. I’m a little fed up with some of the white men in our past:
The Grant Administration (considered most corrupt administration up to that time, ironic considering he was supposedly “Reconstructing” the South).
The Harding Administration (Harding was an incompetent politician nominated by fellow powerful industrial Republicans for the presidentcy because they knew they could control him).
John Pierpont Morgan, started his fortune by buying disfunctional rifles at $3 each before the Civil War, then selling them to the Union army for $22 each, where they frequently blew up in use, and killed a fair number of soldiers.
Andrew Carnegie who stated that the rich should give back to the community in his The Gospel of Wealth, while he continued to exploit workers and pay them barely living wages.
The Emancipation Proclamation–The celebrated Emancipation Proclamation actually didn’t do that much when first signed by Lincoln, it said all slaves in Confederate territories were now free. He did not want to offend the border states sticking with the Union (such as Kentucky) by taking away their precious slaves, but wanted to appease Northern radicals. He had no jurisdiction over the Confederate States of America so it was only effective until the Union started gaining control over Confederate land, it’s like passing a law saying smoking is illegal in Canada.
The only thing so far the only black that bugs me in United States history is Booker T. Washington who told blacks that education was more important than political rights. Basically telling blacks to shut up, sit down, and attend college to obtain an education they couldn’t use because there was no job market at that time for educated blacks (this was late 1800s).
2. Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Gay People compared to Straight People.
I find this funny, because I am so oblivious I never realise people are gay (it never even comes to mind) unless someone explicitly tells me. It’s not that it bothers me, it’s just not something I think about.
I say the whole Gender-science IAT was done by a bunch of conservative-religious types. You know how they kept asking you all those gender words? What they’re really trying to see is if you had any trouble matching the males and the females with peoples of their own gender. The science words were just to trick you into taking the test. You would think they would do that with the Gay-Straight IAT, but that’s way too obvious. If you had no trouble putting people of the same sex together, they send you a load of religious propaganda. That’s why they asked for your mailing adress. But I was too smart for them, I didn’t give mine.
I thought that the test was to figure out whether people were racist or not. You shouldn’t have to go fast, because even God Almighty stated that man should stop and think about whatever he was going to do or say. “Tame the tongue”, he said. So I went slow and did it right. It still said that I thought that blacks carried weapons more than whites did, but that’s not what I think. I think that a weapon is a weapon, and anyone could carry it. And the camera, the cell phone, and the beer can are capable of being used as weapons, but you’re not going to see somebody on the street pull out a spikeball and say,”Gimme your money.”
The beginning of the test says that if you make a mistake, that’s OK, but at the end it basically ends up saying that you’re a racist!!!!!!!!
I believe that it was created by the government to determine which “racist” or “sexist” lived where, and how many of them that there were. They asked me for personal information, but I didn’t give them any. It really bothered me.
The color contrast makes your brain zonk out and you make mistakes. It was not very Christian-like in my opinion. That’s all I have to say. Thanks for reading.
Also, I only made two mistakes, and it said that I think blacks carry weapons more than whites do. TWO MISTAKES
Well it has to be implicit, doesn’t it? You can’t do it slowly, because then you’re thinking about it! The point isn’t to find out if you’re racist, the point is to study the instinctive prejudice.
Here’s some interesting thing about me:
1. I have a strong automatic association of Natives with Foreign and Whites with American.
2. I have a moderate automatic preference for whites over blacks.
3. I have a slight automatic preference for dark skin compared to light skin.
4. I am a light skinned boy who has a completly white family.
5. I love and have been going out with a girl who has darker skin. She has a Native American mother and a white father.
Who says this is strange?
This test has some major flaws. For example, one of the ones I took was the one that came up first (apparently the list is random and has different tests each time you revisit it), which was the “Asian vs. White/American vs. Foreign” one. (For all and sundry’s information, I ended up with “little or no preference”, which would be predictable if this test made any sense, because I have a lot of Asian friends. Also for all and sundry’s information, I’m half Eastern European Jewish and the other side of my family consists of various European nationalities– English, Scottish, French, &c. I live and always have lived in New York State, so the fact that I use British spelling has nothing to do with my education or anything; I just think it’s really cool. But enough parenthetical digression.)
First of all, the pictures were really weird. I really had to look carefully to see which they *wanted* me to say, since they weren’t pictures of real people. I suppose you’re supposed to tell by the eyes or something like that, which is *capitalising* on stereotypes (you have to follow a stereotyping instinct to be fast, which I think defeats the whole purpose). It reminded me of that weird theory about how Africans were the first people to discover America, because some ancient statues found somewhere in South America had “African” features (they weren’t in colour, obviously, since they were statues; it’s based on facial shape). What are “African features”? The people who came up with this theory that makes Africans (and their descendents by association, they apparently think) look good seem to think that all Africans look the same. Just walking around town and observing people will quickly tell you otherwise.
In addition, most of the “foreign” locations on the aforementioned (and still being discussed) test were in Europe or Australia, so it would be logical to put them on the same side as the “European-looking” people (if they actually did look one way or the other, which most of them don’t) and to put the American locations (some of which I didn’t recognise at first, not having been to a lot of them) with both.
That was the test I had the strongest feelings of “this is silly” toward, but I also had a bit of trouble with the questionnaires. They asked questions like “Do you like Asians?” and “Do you like Muslims?” and stuff, which are hard to answer objectively. I have a lot of Asian friends, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I like “Asians” as a group, or dislike the whole group. Saying that you like a group in general means that you think of its members as members of that group, instead of individuals. They also asked political questions, like about the Patriot Act on the Arab/Muslim/everything else test. Being racist or not generally doesn’t go along party lines.
The Diane Ravitch article was awesome. I read her book a while ago and it really makes one wonder what education is coming to.
P. S. I’m taking AP US too, and we read W.E.B. DuBois’ criticism of Booker T. Washington. He said that if people followed Washington’s advice, African-Americans would never get anywhere because the white Southern Democrats would be happy if blacks stayed where they were and they would just be giving up civil rights. Advice like Booker T. Washington’s worked fine for some groups, but not for African-Americans in the U.S. at that time, because of the specific history of African-Americans in the U.S.
People! You’re not supposed to think and put what the test wants you to say! Press what you think, and if you get an X put it in the other one! Fast! Speed speed speed! All about speed! implicit!
I finally did the test, and here it my result:
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American
I took the race IAT and got a strong automatic preference for African Americans compared to European Americans. I am completely white and had never thought of this this way.
I know that’s what you’re supposed to do (not think), but it’s really hard. I was freaking out on just about every test. I mean, they have the “black or good” group and I can’t think of it. I’m going too slow and thinking that I can’t think of black people as good, that I might be hardwired to hate them. This, as you might guess, is not improving my testing time any more. Then, they have “white or good,” and I’m still having trouble being fast, and making even more mistakes. I start thinking that maybe my subconscious is evil and wants to cheat the system and make me look perfect. Paranoia sets in rather quickly thereafter. The mind, my friends, is a dark and scary place – and what makes it worse is that I live there.
PEOPLES!!!!!!!!! THE TEST JUST MEANS THAT YOU UNCONCIOUSLY ASSOCIATE THESE THINGS WITH BLACK PEOPLE, BECAUSE OF THE MESSAGE SENT TO YOUR BRAIN BY CULTURE AND THE MEDIA!!!!! READ THE ARTICLE AGAIN!!!!!
I consider my self imparshl to White or Blacks but, I took the test and was appled at the resolt. I am very white and really don’t have a problem being around or talking to a Person of Color (I hope The sencory commitey is not looking at this) But yet the test said that I had a strong difenty (if thats used correty) for Whites. I feel that my subconesos has over run my mind. I must get some sleep before i say some thing really bad.
I took a bunch of these and found that my reactions were quite atypical. I prefer dark-skinned people to light-skinned people, have no preference between Caucasian and African American, moderately prefer fat people to thin people, slightly prefer old people to young people.
But I’m not really convinced these tests are really testing anything. For example, one of the faces they flash for the dark-skinned people/light-skinned people test looks like my friend Shanti. Whenever I saw it, I got a smile on my face. So maybe I don’t really prefer dark-skinned people to light-skinned people, I just prefer Shanti to most people.
The gay/straight test seemed particularly silly. When I took it, they showed things like pairs of stick-figure girls in triangular skirts, like the image you see on the door to the women’s bathroom. I think I probably associate that image more strongly with the “Slow–Children Playing” street sign than with homosexuality.
I took the race IAT, and it told me that I had a Black over White preference. I found this a little odd, because, well, I’m White. Does this mean I’m biased agaist myself?
You know what is also interesting? there is no Cats/dogs IAT. Is this biased against the animals????
And why do they want you to enter your race, like they do on standardized tests? Does your race change your score?
I just entered “Other/Unknown” If it had been a type-in box, I would have entered “Human”, just ’cause it’s true. Were all of the human race.
thanks for moving this thread to the top. i just got worrid whn i saw peoples posting entries on FM.
Congrats to Ebeth the lurker for actually figuring things out. If the test doesn’t leave you totally confused, it’s not really your subconscious speaking, is it? I myself have a slight preference for disabled people over able people. In my experience, they’re generally nicer, calmer, and less worried about popularity
I really should stay better updated with the blogs. Everytime I get on I have to read way far back to find out what any ones talking about.
According to the test, I have a strong prejudice toward old people, a slight prejudice toward dark skinned people and no prejudice to or for judaism.
I had a lot of troble with the age and race ones, because I kept being nervous about associating one to much with bad or good things, and I think that affected by results.
I think that this is a humungus prank designed to see what people will believe. And the people who see thru the lie get implemented in mostly harmless, isn’t that right, GAPA?
ok…
I just like that. And I blew the mostly harmless cover. This blog may or may be shut down for years on years.
Have a nice day!
HOW is it possible to be biased against yourself??? *TEARS HAIR OUT* Will somebody please explain???MY BRAIN HURTS
Y’know, if you concentrate really hard on the green words in the middle of the screen, you can’t really see the headings at the top?
Well, I took the test a few times for different subjects, and I have to say, it totally rules. Why, you ask?
Because it told me I wasn’t biased against black people, thought of Jews and Muslims equally, and, most importantly, that *drumroll* …………….. ” [My] data suggest a moderate automatic identification with Beautiful People compared to Rich People.” Which means I must be beautiful. Ohhh!! Whaaaaaaaaaaattt!?!?! You want a fork?! Cause you just got served, fool!!
On a more serious note, I took the IAT before reading the article, and so it was a little surprising to find not only that 80% of test-takers had a pro-white bias, but that this was true even for black people—I’m just about as white as they come. A possible explanation I have for my result is the fact that I live and grew up in [Name of city deleted by Administrator to protect Kat’s privacy] Oregon, which, if you don’t know, is crawling with hippies. (not that that’s a bad thing—it’s really quite nice—they make delicious raspberry lemonade) The effect of this is a generally liberal trend, and the public schools teach us about all kinds of stuff I’m told you don’t get in a lot of places, from MLK, Jr, to Sitting Bull, to labor movements, to Malcolm X, to Chinese railroad workers, to Cesar Chavez, and so on. I do wonder, therefore, if there really is something to the idea of cultural impact on our subconscious bias or nonbias towards certain groups.
I guess the next step would be to get other students from my school to take it and see what their results look like.
Oh, and when I said “this test totally rules” at the beginning, I was really just joking, or trying to get your attention, or something………. I find its accuracy slightly dubious, but it’s an interesting problem nonetheless.
Just how do you define a hippie?
A couple more things:
1. kokopelli #13, the test isn’t supposed to be Christian, nor is it supposed to be Hindu, Sikh, or Wiccan. It’s intended as a scientific study, whether you think its results are meaningless or not.
2. I’m curious about how many people read the article BEFORE taking the test. It could be that after reading about the black gentleman who the test claimed was biased against himself, some of you white folks who got weird results were extra careful when associating “African American” with “bad”.
3. I would like to thank Muse for publishing a serious article for once. Not that humor is bad; I’ve been reading Muse for a good six years now, and it’s been pretty hilarious the whole time, but it’s great to see a kid’s magazine talking about real issues. It’s even better to see young people having a discussion about real issues. Big ups, Muse!
That test was some what insulting. I liked it though. As “da muse gang” said, most people are attracted to the dominant color.(actually, I am white so I’m not THAT suprised) Being a white person in a white society, I am, by nature, one who is pulled toward whites. I only had a moderate prefefrence of whites, though. My friend is black, and I think that is what allowed me to be only moderatly choosy. I’m going back to do another one!
I fust did a fat/thin people IAT, I prefer fat people! I had always noticed if someone was overweight, but I didn’t think that would make me more prone to fat people. I guess I learn something new about myself everyday!
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I am prefranced for thin people over fat ones im so proud of myself i could cry
lol
I took the arab muslim IAT & the presidential popularity IAT … I have a slight preference for bush jr over ronald reagan. how sad and the awful thing is that i thought i HATED the man if it had been someone else as an other president i probably would not have… Something just occured to me most musers probably dont really remember any other president. or were too young to worry about politics. on the arab muslim iat i have a moderate automatic preference for arab muslims. hardly surprising i am a muslim myself all i need to do is look in the mirror to convince me that muslims are not all bad. some of the names they listed i know people with those names. a minor triumph since most people have automatic preferences toward other people. I am the exeception to the rule
Otzi- by hippie I mean somebody either left over from the “flower power” generation, or, more likely, their children or even grandchildren. They have liberal views on almost everything, come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and are often active as, err, activists. There are so many different types of people one could class as hippies these days that it’s hard to define… If I had to make a blanket definition, it’s somebody who lives an alternative, left-of-center lifestyle and generally rejects the social norm of living a “straight” life.
Or, someone who is seen every year here:
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AAAAUUGHGHGH!!!!!! i did the whole test and it just went and deleted my results!!! More data needed….
FantasyFan?!?! (137),
Ahlan wa sahlan fi MuseBlog! T’sharrafna!
Excuse me?
133-i actually took the test at first before i read the article, but not the race one. The race one i took after i read the article.
that’s interesting though. maybe i should make my non-muser friends take the test and then show them the article…see what happens…
hippies are cool.
GAPA, is that something like “Welcome to the MuseBlog!” or, “Beware the people on MuseBlog”? or perhaps “Don’t be scared of the MuseBlog?” or “Look i can speak in another language MuseBlog?”
Hmm…
140 was Arabic. Figuratively it means “Welcome to Museblog! Nice to have you here!” Literally it means “Family and plain in MuseBlog. You do us honor.”
Ahlan wa sahlan is an old Bedouin greeting. (The Bedouin were and are nomadic Arabs who dwell in the desert.) It’s a short way of saying “you are among your own people and on a level place out in the open where you can see enemies coming a long way away,” i.e., you’re safe. It gives an idea of how dangerous life could be out there.
By the way, if you want to pronounce it, the first “a” in each word is short, as in “Al.” In fact, “ahlan” is pronounced just like “Allen” except that you pronounce the “h” as an “h.” “Sahlan” rhymes with it. (We don’t pronounce h in the middle of a word, but Arabs do.)
This episode of “More Than You Want to Know” was brought to you by Muse, the magazine that assumes that curiosity is infinite.
Boy. That explanation certainly brought things to a standstill around here.
We were reading in awe. *bows to the GAPAs superior knowledge of Arabic which isn’t hard cuz i know nil about it*
Wow, you added more too!!!
Hey! thanks for the greeting and everything when i saw it…
thought you’d like to know assalamu alaikum is the traditional greeting between most muslims ahlan wa sahlan is also used betwwen most arabic speakers. shalom aleichom in hebrew also sounds alot like assalamu alaikum i think they both mean peace be upon you. I got a moderate automatic preference for whites over blacks onrace iat. good to know i know more than ebeth on arabic i didnt see it until now because look at the time of my first post. bedtime! read a few books- fantasy of course- and crashed busy til now
After reading through muse for good amount of time I decided I should try out some of these implicit tests so I went to the site to see if it was REALLY THAT amazing. I tried 2 and then realized I NEEDED to rant. Ahem! This test is so stupid, so entirely and utterly illogical it makes me want to rip open my pc and become the hulk. The reason the test makes you feel biast is becuase its a game not becuase of any real 2nd nature feelings. You have to press e and i alot and so you first get used to one side, so when the “test” switches about the categories your brain has to re-adjust to the new settings. Its a a simple brain trick (like th color words that have a differant color text(blue in purple text)), not a hidden biast againsit blacks or liberal arts and females. The results are just putting stupid answers to how fast your brain can re-adjust and re-process different things. If I had more time to research about the brain I would but I am WAY to busy with other classes. Oh and if you think I am just pulling this out of thin air… I have actually studied the brain before in moderate detail.
-grr…. MAD fwiffo
people, its association. but you do have a point. maybe if hey switched the order of the tests people would get different results.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Gay People compared to Straight People.
grammer!
i had little or no asociation w/ asian and foreign and caucasian(forget politically correct) and american. doesn’t surprise me cause im 1/2 and 1/2.
i slightly prefered disabled to abled ppl probably because my brother is autistic.
it said i slightly prefered light skin to dark skin although i wish i was tanner
i prefered young ppl not suprised cause one of the old ppl pictures was kinda ugly and it scared me.
-Alena
i wanted to put another enrty in cause 151 is a prime # (i hope)
-Alena
it says that its like 1 in the morning right now but where i live its 11
-Alena
do you happen to live in california?
most likely
its 3 for me
I’m not so good at arabic, but I can do some Star Trek greetings. The thing where you make a V with your fingers means “Live long and prosper”, not “We come in peace” as so many seem to think.
I took some more yesterday.
I have a slight automatic preference for judaism over other religions.
I have a moderate automatic preference for arab muslims over other people.
I have a moderate association of Male with career and Female with family compared to Female with career and Male with family.
After those I ran out of energy. i’ll try and do more when i’m done with homework. I think i’ll start with weapons and race. Shalom Aleichom
further notes:
1) the test is sucessful because it’s confusing, it makes it so you can’t consciously or subconsciously screen your responses. If you have a slight preference for one way of thinking, it will show best in the way you respond when confused.
2) Violetfire, did you know that the Vulcan greeting actually comes out of judaic tradition? Several of the creators were jewish, and some interesting things got mixed in.
wasn’t it the actor who was jewish and who made up the greeting?
i wouldnt know . im no star trek fan
Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock, was indeed Jewish. So was William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk. (He was also Canadian, from Montreal.) It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that LN made up “live long and prosper,” but I don’t know one way or the other.
*smiles and pretends she knows what everybody is talking about*
(responding to em)
ya i live in CA
I live in Michigan, were we have to deal with Govener Granholm every single waking moment. At least I don’t live in Detroit, they have it really bad with Kwame Kilpatric running the city.
yay hello fellow michigander!
Ok, ex-fellow michigander. i live in oohi now.
but michigan rocks
NO NOT THE FOOTBALL TEAM ARRRGH!
*disappears under a mob of buckeyes*
ok now we’re kinda getting off-topic…
michigan is cool, but where i am where having crazy weather. today it snowed. yesterday it rained but was still warm enuff to not wear coats. michigans nice even if i havnt lived here very long.
Okay, now I really took the email off…
Your data suggests:
A slight automatic association of African Americans with weapons, and European Americans with Harmless objects
and
No preference between George W Bush and Other presidents (I.E. Jefferson)
((To admin please put the link on?))
Here here Ebeth (on behalf of all lazy procrastinators [I will refer to them as people whose desire is outweighed by their work ethic] I would like to sympathize with you about your first post)
:D…
/code this thread is buried!
i mean noone even mnows where it is anymore!
dang it didnt work
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Judaism compared to Other Religions.
Your data suggest a slight association of Male with Career and Female with Family compared to Female with Career and Male with Family.
mine said I was bias to helpers but I didn’t know what the heck they were talkig about a lot
“Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Classical compared to Hip Hop.” Why am i not surprised?
Hi! The results say I have:
-little or no association between Male and Female with Science and Liberal Arts (yup, I like science and English, etc., so…)
-little to no automatic preference between Straight People and Gay People (yeah, I think this is definitely true; i grew up with gay neighbors, and so i’ve known 2 men living together even before i really understood the concept of being gay)
-slight association of European American with American and Asian American with Foreign compared to Asian American with American and European American with Foreign (I thought my result might say neutral, because I’m half-European (Austrian, Polish, and German), and half-Asian (Japanese), but I’m not surprised with these results)
-a slight automatic preference for White American compared to Black American. (hate to say it, but probably true)
-slight automatic preference for Disabled Persons compared to Abled Persons (yeah, I kind of feel bad for disabled people, but I don’t really like to, because the dieabled people I know don’t like being treated specially)
-moderate automatic preference for Young compared to Old (yeah, I don’t really like old people)
-moderate automatic preference for Thin People compared to Fat People (yup, i thought i would get this)
-moderate association of White Am. with Foreign and Native Am. with American compared to Native Am. with Foreign and White Am. with American (yup, American Indians were here first!)
Do you play classicle music, Darth Yoda?
I do, though I don’t like it as much as other music *hip hop=yuch!
Amazingly every test I took said I had no prefrence.I find that so odd.Did I cheat in some way?Can you even cheat?
Yo king george,I totally agree.
Later people.
Is it me or does everyone seem to have similar opinions?
This is in eastern time right?
Welcome, Arasia! The blog is on Central Time.
That explains why i’ve been late for skool snice i stared lurking.
173-no, but i used to.
: mrgreen :
Arasia,get with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!add a couple hours.
yo talking head be nice.Wha’d you get strongly likes self more than
anything.?!Did you take the test.
I hope this face works : mrgreen : .
Is this a case of split personality, or of two people sharing a computer?
Sara/Arasia/TH,
Leave out the spaces between the colons and the words. And please practice your smileys on the thread provided for that purpose.
vfdxxc23432564569876fdfgbfurs2345532`23456788 : mrgreen :.
2people 1computer
Which of you is Stupid Sara?
I am green
stupid sara is me the dog and sara is stupid because she gave me a bubble bath
Stupid Sara, most likly (how do you spell that)
OK, we’ve got Sara, Talkinghead, and Arasia all connected somehow. Sara claims to be a dog who gave herself a bubble bath… Greater minds than mine will have to straighten this out. Welcome, whoever you are and however many of you there are.
I took the racial test and the age test. It told me that I have a ‘slight preference’ for white people and a ‘slight preference’ for younger people.
(#192):
*likely
well, I took 4. I got that I had slight preference for young, fat, and white peeps, and “Little or no Preference” between gay/straight people.
I can’t beleive it!!!!!!!!!
This idiotic test insisted that I had a strong preference for Whites over Blacks!!!!!!!!!!!
But you know what’s realy sick? I think it might be correct. I think that I might have some sort of prejudice against african-american people. I don’t mean too, indeed, I always treat them exactly the same as I would a white person in my consious actions. But the other night, I was in the Library, and it was late (fifteen mins. till closing), no one else was around. That was untill a black man stepped around the corner into the aisle I was on. Almost immediatly my heart sped up, and I started getting scared. No one’s around to hear my scream. That’s what kept running through my head. That and everything I had ever heard on the news about child-molesters.
After a moment I had to leave without getting my book. When I got out of the Library, I inwardly slapped myself for being so rediculous. I was, and still am, heartily confused by my reaction. Would I have acted the same way about a white man? I don’t know, but for some reason, I doubt it. Taking this test seemed to prove it. I’m prejudiced. I’m certainly not a skinhead, but I am prejudiced. And I don’t think that I’m the only one.
I hope that one day, people won’t be prejudiced against any group of people. Because you can spit us up as much as you want, but we’re all people. We all bleed red. We all laugh. We all feel the same things. And sure, there are alot of black thugs out there, but there are just as many white thugs.
And no, I don’t think that whites should have to ‘pay for what their ansestors did to the blacks’. The Irish have been stomped on all throughout history, but we don’t whine about it. I think that everyone, wether they be white, black, hispanic, asian, or pink and yellow polka-dotted, should be held to the same standard. A standard that values loyalty, nobility, honor, hard work, and justice. I think that it’s time America stood up and took advantage of the freedoms we have won. I was born in Afghanastan, and I didn’t know how to read or write or do arithmatic at all untill my parents moved back to the U.S.A. when I was twelve. That was four years ago. Now I can read in English and Russian. I can write in English. I can manage Trigonomitry without much difficulty. I treasure this knowledge. And yet, all around me in school I see kids, kids of all races, who don’t care a straw about learning. They go around in gangs drawing graffti on the walls, and smoking pot. And every time I see one of these morons, I wonder if they know what they’re throwing away. We Americans have a gift. We can learn. We can grow. Why should we wast our lives doing idiotic things and wasting that gift? Why should we wast our freedom of free thought, by believeing in some stupid steriotype? Did you know, that in South Africa blacks still don’t have equall rights? Or that in India, a woman has to ask her husband permission to leave the house? Or that, in some Russian places, homosexual people have to get registered, like some kind of pervert? All of this sounds absurd to me.
And yet, I seem to pefer whites over blacks. Why? I have no clue. But I intend to use the freedom that America has given me, (an almost pureblood Irishman, born in Afghanastan, but an American at heart) to learn to see past outer diferences. Tonight, I make a promise. In six months time I will take the IAT again. And when I do, I will have no predjudices agaist black, or white, people. I swear to God I won’t.
can’t beleive it!!!!!!!!!
This idiotic test insisted that I had a strong preference for Whites over Blacks!!!!!!!!!!!
But you know what’s realy sick? I think it might be correct. I think that I might have some sort of prejudice against african-american people. I don’t mean too, indeed, I always treat them exactly the same as I would a white person in my consious actions. But the other night, I was in the Library, and it was late (fifteen mins. till closing), no one else was around. That was untill a black man stepped around the corner into the aisle I was on. Almost immediatly my heart sped up, and I started getting scared. No one’s around to hear my scream. That’s what kept running through my head. That and everything I had ever heard on the news about child-molesters.
After a moment I had to leave without getting my book. When I got out of the Library, I inwardly slapped myself for being so rediculous. I was, and still am, heartily confused by my reaction. Would I have acted the same way about a white man? I don’t know, but for some reason, I doubt it. Taking this test seemed to prove it. I’m prejudiced. I’m certainly not a skinhead, but I am prejudiced. And I don’t think that I’m the only one.
I hope that one day, people won’t be prejudiced against any group of people. Because you can spit us up as much as you want, but we’re all people. We all bleed red. We all laugh. We all feel the same things. And sure, there are alot of black thugs out there, but there are just as many white thugs.
And no, I don’t think that whites should have to ‘pay for what their ansestors did to the blacks’. The Irish have been stomped on all throughout history, but we don’t whine about it. I think that everyone, wether they be white, black, hispanic, asian, or pink and yellow polka-dotted, should be held to the same standard. A standard that values loyalty, nobility, honor, hard work, and justice. I think that it’s time America stood up and took advantage of the freedoms we have won. I was born in Afghanastan, and I didn’t know how to read or write or do arithmatic at all untill my parents moved back to the U.S.A. when I was twelve. That was four years ago. Now I can read in English and Russian. I can write in English. I can manage Trigonomitry without much difficulty. I treasure this knowledge. And yet, all around me in school I see kids, kids of all races, who don’t care a straw about learning. They go around in gangs drawing graffti on the walls, and smoking pot. And every time I see one of these morons, I wonder if they know what they’re throwing away. We Americans have a gift. We can learn. We can grow. Why should we wast our lives doing idiotic things and wasting that gift? Why should we wast our freedom of free thought, by believeing in some stupid steriotype? Did you know, that in South Africa blacks still don’t have equall rights? Or that in India, a woman has to ask her husband permission to leave the house? Or that, in some Russian places, homosexual people have to get registered, like some kind of pervert? All of this sounds absurd to me.
And yet, I seem to pefer whites over blacks. Why? I have no clue. But I intend to use the freedom that America has given me, (an almost pureblood Irishman, born in Afghanastan, but an American at heart) to learn to see past outer diferences. Tonight, I make a promise. In six months time I will take the IAT again. And when I do, I will have no predjudices agaist black, or white, people. I swear to God I won’t.
Why twice?
Gwyn even if i’m a dog i still know you wrote a lott
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I’d like to respond toesterday’s conversation.2twins,1dog, 1computer 80
Gwyn even if i’m a dog i still know you wrote a lott :evill:
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0.0 it tells me something about written permision and being younger than 18. suggestions, GAPA?
I CANNOT BELIEVE THEM! They think I strongly automaticly prefer whites? That is sooooooooooooooooo whacko yacko! I mean, I admit at 1st glance I may “prefer” a liiiiiittle but STRONGLY???!! Sheesh! One of my best friends are black! I wonder if its really true. But the test was a little creepy. There were like, faces in squares and they were black & white. So were the people! HAHAHA! Anyway, I still think its sooooo not awesomely awesome! I mean I am so not prejedice!
Whatever.
P.S. How do you put in smileys?
Ohhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mutt (204) You need to type in your parents email. Then it will email them asking for perrmission. Or you could just lie about your age. But I don’t reccomend it. Could possibly be illegall, or at least skew the results.
ok, thanks. 0.0 then i could give myself permission. (rawr.)
If you want to know who I am, I am female, white with a tiny bit of cherokee. As for religion I’m not sure what I am. I feel Jewish though but I don’t know much about Judaism though I know more than some… I guess. I’m also kind of christian too though. Rather confusing.
The problem with these is that once know what the test is about, you are automatically on your guard about it and try to influence the results. When I took the race test, I didn’t want to my result to say that I was prejudiced towards blacks, so I was concious of making an effort to keep the response time for each category equal. On one hand, maybe I should have just let my relflexes take it over and have natural results, but it’s hard to not try and change them. That part in itself is almost an istinct/reflex.
i luv smileys.
I is tired.
ok. i went to the site and took 3 of the tests bfore i got bored. ya happy? anyway, apparently i don’t care if your gay or straight, I have a moderate automatic preference for African American compared to European American (which is weird because im Scottish and completely white), and i like skinny people better than fat people. that one makes complete sense to me. ok i guess to some degree its your metabolism that makes you thin or fat, but there’s no excuse for walking around with 50 extra pounds. some people obviously never heard of excercise.
ANYWAY: I LOVE MUSE!!
Peace Out,
MJ
HELLO! My birthday is in three days! I am excited!
In the race test I have moderate automaticpreferance for both! I thought I liked both races equally! In the gay/straight test I made too many errors heh heh, dark skin/ light skin I have a slight preference to light skinned people same for fat/thin as I have a slight preference for thin probably because most thin people are on tv doing good things and I’m a bit overweight and want to be an actress so most parts require a small butt. well that’s all I’ll do for now
I took the implicit race test and it said I had moderate automatic preference for European Americans as opposed to African Americans. However, I don’t completely agree. It started out with European Americans and Pleasant on the same side. Then it wasn’t until after it switched the keys that it had African Americans and Pleasant on the same side. At that point I still wasn’t adjusted to the key change.
Of course, I’m going to have difficulty then linking African American and Pleasant.
Besides which, I was having trouble putting the Pleasant words in the Pleasant column and the Unpleasant words in the Unpleasant column. I kept putting words, such as hurt, in Pleasant. Don’t know why, I certainly don’t think hurt is pleasant. Anyway I don’t think the test was completely fair, since they changed keys before linking African American and Pleasant.
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Disabled Persons and Abled Persons.
Because I’ve played video games for seven years that speeds up my reaction time. so the info might be a little off.
I did the first part, but then when I did the second part, something got all messed up…….
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Young compared to Old. well comes from being twelve and having three little brothers, younger than me cousins, meeting great friends younger than me ect.
Yeah, the same is with me…..
Hey, I took the Asian American-European American IAT test.
My results were: Your data suggest a slight association of European American with American and Asian American with Foreign compared to Asian American with American and European American with Foreign.
I also took Gender-Science IAT
My results were: Your data suggest a slight association of Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts compared to Female with Science and Male with Liberal Arts.
Possible, I suppose. My sister IS going into music ed. but I plan to pursue a veterinary career after I finish highschool, so , who knows…
I took the Gay People-Straight People IAT.
My results were: Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Gay People compared to Straight People.
I found this interesting. I personally don’t know anybody that’s gay, or if I do I’m not aware they’re gay. However, I don’t believe that I’m prejudiced against gays. I guess this sort of backs that up…but who knows.
I took Race-Weapons IAT also.
My results were: Your data suggest a moderate association of European American with Harmless Objects and African American with Weapons compared to African American with Harmless Objects and European American with Weapons.
Suppose it’s possible don’t really know. Anybody can carry a weapon: African American, European American, Asian American, Native American, or Creature from Outerspace.
I’m just glad they didn’t list ‘pencil’ because that would most definitely be a weapon. You could stab someobdy in the jugular vein in their neck and kill them or, this sounds more interesting, stab them in the eye, and it would go straight into their brain, and then you could wiggle it a round and give them permanent brain damage. Not to give anybody any ideas or anything… I wouldn’t actually DO any of those things, though.
I took the Young-Old IAT.
My results were: Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Old and Young.
Interesting, I’d say considering that I’m young (16 yrs. old, well almost. I’ll be sixteen March 29.) I would be likely to have a preference for young people.
I took the Presidential Preference IAT.
My results were: Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Abraham Lincoln and George W. Bush.
Sounds about right. I really don’t have that much preference. Although, I might like Lincoln slightly more. I dunno.
I took the Disalbed-Abled IAT.
My results were: Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Abled Persons compared to Disabled Persons.
Could be, I dunno. Don’t think about it that much.
I took the Fat-Thin IAT.
My results were: Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Fat People compared to Thin People.
I find this interesting. If anything I would have said little or no difference, or that I had a slight preference for thin people, but I guess these don’t necessarily mean that much.
I took the Native-White American IAT.
My results were: Your data suggest a slight association of White Am. with Foreign and Native Am. with American compared to Native Am. with Foreign and White Am. with American.
In a way that sort of makes sense, I supppose. After all, technically Native Americans are more American than European Americans, since they WERE here first.
What I didn’t like was when they said to put the things that are foreign on one side and the things that are American on the other. Two of the picutres, the Amazon River, and a rain forests in Costa Rica, might not be in the US, but they are American, since they are in South America and Central America, respectively. Therefore, they ARE American.
I took the Light Skin-Dark sking IAT.
My results were: Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Light Skin compared to Dark Skin.
By the way, what time is this on that the times are posted as on the blog? Cause it’s currently 2:00 my time, Alaska. Just curious.
Sorry this is so long, but you don’t have to read it…
Welcome, Michelle! The blog’s time stamp is set to Central Time. Apparently that’s three hours later than Alaska time.
I have never “MuseBlogged” before so, here goes:
So far I took the “disabled person” IAT, and according to the results, I have an “automatic preferance for disabled persons” or something like that. I am surprised, because I expected preferances for undisabled people. I don’t understand why these results have turned up, but it may have something to do with confusion. As I was reading about the purposes of the test and all that blah, my heart got heavier and heavier. When I was answering the questionare, my stomach actually began to hurt. After all that I get an “apfdp” (see above for meaning of acronym)! I am (as I said before) surprised! Anyway I’ll blog back with further results. GTG
Love Muse!
Will M.
I took the racial IAT and seem to like whites more. Then I took it again and rwrote down all the right answers.When I took it again I didn’t even look up at the screen for the test, I just pressed down the keys that I had recorded, then I answered all nuetral on the questionaire. And ya know what? They still said I moderately preferred whites. Can computers reach out with telepathic tendrils and grasp your brain? I hope not.
Heh, heh, heh. Just you wait, and soon computers will rule the world!!! *evil, old, creepy laughter fills the room*
Have I been watching too many old science fiction shows lately?
I did the disability one and the results were “Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Disabled Persons and Abled Persons.”
I don’t think the test is really accurate. After you are doing the “e” and “i” keys, say, for example, the “e” is good and the “i” is bad. After doing that for a really long time, it is hard to switch and make “i” good and “e” bad. You have to slow down and think a little, or make mistakes.
Anyway, that is my opinion
Hi Will M.!!!
um, that was weird. i don’t usually welcome newbies.
Why aren’t you usually nice and welcome inexperienced bloggers!?! Don’t try to blame it on your subconsiousness!
Welcome Will M.!
Welcoming newbies is called “being nice” and it is NICE, so we do it (I know, I’m making no sense, but that is ok, because I don’t usually make sense)
I took the president test, and in the beginniing, I had a writen test on George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. I took that, and I favored George and Democratic. Then, it had the typing part. Now here’s the dumb part. I can’t remember much about Clinton being president, and he was one of the two people who were randomly picked. THe other was George W. Bush. So I think that only knowing one of the presidents changed my outcome. I personaly hate bush, but never really knew Clinton. IN the end, the answer was that I slightly favored Clinton over bush. But what happened to George and Jefferson? I never found out which one I preferred. PLus, I think the answer should have been that I HATTEED bush, and that I LOOVVEEEDDD Clinton, even though I never knew him. Anyway, I don’t aree with this tests ways of finding out, and I think that only people who have known a few presidents, such as 5, should take it. I guess I knew two, but should have known three, if Bush wasn’t realected, ARRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!:evil:
i like this contest but i’m to wierd to do it
. as allways:-0
This study was completly wrong and very disturbing. I had to do which do i prefer gays or straights. I bet that that study tried to like change our way of what we think of things. Luckily it did not work on me, haha. By doing the first part of the separting test the computer can figure out what is your opinion. Then it you have to go the postitive and negative thing. Then they mix them up so you change you opinion about it. I prefer straights (no offense) and when they put the catagories in Gay/Postive and Straight/Negative they wanted me to think that gay was a postive thing and that straight was negative. Then scientists coul compare the fist results to the last and see if there was any change. Good try scientists but haha, in the end the survey said that strongly prefered straight people. I think that was the whole point of this survey, but then again I might be wrong…
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for George W. Bush compared to John F. Kennedy. I think its because I don’t know much about kennedy.
What the HECK are you talking about??????
I was talking to Edwin, in case t wasn’t obvious
Edwin, the study wasn’t trying to change it, just measure. When they put Gay/Positive and Straight/Negative, they were measuring your reaction time, and then later it put it into Gay/Negative etc too. It’s not that the people who made the study prefer gay people or anything.
Scientists are observing, not trying to change your beliefs.
And if i may ask, what’s wrong with gay people?
I’ve got the same question as Ebeth the Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker (could you choose any longer of a name???) what’s wrong with gay people?
I personally don’t know any and I’m not gay, but I don’t see that there’s anything wrong with them.
same……
i think that mine was not the right result
my result said that i have a slight automatic preference for dark skinned people compated to light skin
often times,
thats not true
i know that i can somtimes pefer whit people over darker people, although alot of my friends of swim team are tan,
and one of my best friends is porterican/mexican/tan person
so maybe it wasnt wrong
yay!!!!
but thats interesting
i never knew that about myself!!!!!!
wow
but i know im prejiduce about soda
i only like the white/colored onces
except for doctor pepper
i never drink coke
or pepsi
or root beer
ewww.
kkkk
heres another one
i took the fat people one
it says i have no automatic preference
hmmmmm
that might be true
cuz i hav skinny friends
and chubby friends
and i myself are not very skinnny
or very fat
so i can see where that comes in
i wish they had a height one
cuz im super tall
and i wanna see how i “view” people
yeahhhhhh
muahahah
i feeeeeellll
uhhh
idk
k bye
and oh yeah
i took the disabled persons one
it said i like abled people
more than disabled people
im pretty sure thats true
although i try to be nice to disabled people
“Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Abraham Lincoln compared to George W. Bush.”
That is what it said about the President test, which is true – I didn’t fill out any of the info thing, to see if that influenced anything…..etc.
Im still proud of myself, but im not crying any more
I took the test, and supposedly,
“Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Light Skin compared to Dark Skin.”
Can anybody tell me what that means?!?!
kinda stupid sometimes….
um, yeah, i never understood what was wrong with gay people either.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Abled Persons compared to Disabled Persons.
Now, this cannot be true. I have a strong prefrence for disabled people than abled people. I myself have multiple disabilities, and I have before FALLEN IN LOVE with people with disabilities like mine. I have been around disabled people since I was a baby. I have even considered suggesting that muse do an article on Aspergurs Syndrome (I’m very shy). Sorry that every sentence starts with I, but I am very ****** right now.
Now, part of the reason this might have happened in because I have hand disablilties and often press the wrong key. So, it is because of my disabilities that I got a certain prefrence on a dissbilty test. Ironic.
I don’t have any hand disabilities, but I still had problems hitting the right keys, ‘specially after they switched what was on each side half way through.
I have Crohn’s Disease
I have little to no preference between fat and thin people and little ro no preference between arab muslims and other people. I thought I was going to have a small bias towards fat people, because everyone makes such a big deal out of being fat nowadays. I thought the photos they used for the fat-thin test were silly- they were all distorted and made me want to laugh rather than concentrate on the test.
I wasn’t suprised about the arab -muslim test resluts. Im not muslim, but my mother studies the Middle East and Islamic art and architecture, so I’ve always had a lot of Islam related things/conversations on my house.
Before this whole associating Arabs with terrorism thing, I associated Arab Muslim words/images with my mother.
My goodness. I always knew I was neutral, but Jeeze!
1. I have little or no association with Niffians or Laapians being bad or good. ( No, they are not two previously undiscovered elfin species, as I first thought. They are figments of Project Implicit’s strange, strange imagination.)
2. I have little to no automatic preference between European Americans and African Americans.
3. I have little or no automatic preference between pants and skirts.
Oh no! This somewhat annoying but slightly addicting test is revealing me as a person with no preferences! No beliefs! No unique and individual self! I find I am honor bound to take the test until it tells me something interesting.
(…of course, I could just be really good at taking tests.)
This was a bit disturbing, you guys. I took the test, and I have revealed my strange hidden self behind the curtain…
They said that I actually have no automatic preference for woman or men. I am a feminist for goodness sakes.
The black and white test said I prefer blacks midly over whites. Can you believe that? I’m white myself, and I prefer to be a in-between-er. But nope.
Then I took the president test, and I found out that I am a in-between-er. I’m gonna get nightmares tonight…
1. What is with all the Bush-bashing on this blog? Am I the only conservative Muse-reader in existence? (And btw, I supposedly have little to no association between liberals and conservatives with self and other. Ahahahaha.)
2. Does this contest mean there is going to be a Blog Comments Pit, along with the FMP (Fan Mail Pit)?
3. Even though I am a 16-year-old Muse reader, it appears that the vast majority of Muse readers are 13/14-year-olds (little kids, in other words). So how did you guys all register? (you have to be 18 to harbor subconscious prejudices, apparently). I just put my email where evidently your parents are supposed to put theirs, b/c I just didn’t really want to bother explaining to them that I have at last embraced the nerd within me and am thus participating in a magazine contest. Are my fellow Muse readers all sinners like me?
4. Has anyone taken the Niffian/Laapian IAT? If any of you have, I welcome any suggestions as to what subconscious prejudices it is supposed to reveal.
AND FINALLY…
5. Sorry Harvard, but I think this “Implicit Associations Test” falls under the category of “Just another trashy online quiz meant to consume the time that should otherwise be spent doing homework”. Perhaps it might accurately measure reaction time and mental agility, but as to what lies in the subconscious? If anyone knows anything about a man named Sigmund Freud, this is right up that guy’s alley (one of his highly controversial theories purports that accidental misdemeanors and our reactions under stress reveal the workings of our subconscious). So…I think the test-namers should have called it the Implicit Associations with Freud Test (IAFT), but that’s just my opinion…
I said I was 18.
I was able to take it. Not by regisitering, I took the demonstration test. It gave me a score anyways….. 0_o
I took the demo test too. It said “You have little or no prefrence beetween european-american and aafrican-american.”. Thats what I wanted to get. In a way, I think I was kinda making sure I got that. Did I cheat?
#252 (Rodeochic#8)
13/14 actually isn’t really little……
I strongly dislike Bush. GRRRRRRRRRR
13/14 year olds aren’t little, I know kids that age, (I’m 16 as of today) and I know lots of people that 13/14, and they’re just as mature as me (but maybe I’m immature…Nah, don’t think so…)
I took the Arab Muslims-Other People IAT and my results were: “Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Other People compared to Arab Muslims.”
It’s possible, my dad at least seems kinda prejudiced against Muslims. I don’t know how many of you watch ER, but on the last show, after the Muslim girl died, and the mother confessed that it had been an ‘honor’ killing, Dad said something to the effect of ‘Good little Muslims.’ That didn’t seem very nice to me. I mean, just ’cause some Muslims are bad, doesn’t mean ALL are…
hello
hi
Heck, kids are reaching puberty at 8.
Oh and, by the way, even some 11 year olds are seemingly mature……
I am “slightly biased towards African-Americans”
This exists purly for smily practice. Yay! Smilys!!!
i took almost all of the tests and i thought the results were pretty much accurate.
muffins, you get the best name award!
that was the blueberry muffins, not the other ones.
thanx! *holds up award*
LOOKY EVERYONE I GET AN AWARD!
Your data suggest a slight association of Female with Science and Male with Liberal Arts compared to Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Thin People compared to Fat People.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Bill Clinton compared to George W. Bush.
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Light Skin and Dark Skin.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Fat People compared to Thin People.
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ok…. this is super stupid. for example, i did the fat/thin test-clearly once they switch it its harder. the first sets are good-thin/fat-bad. once it switched, i just got confused. i pressed e for thin and good and i for bad and fat. duh!!!!! thats what i was used to from before. geez! besides- i bet people usually prefer their own race because that is the kind of people who have surrounded them since birth. i mean, white people might have a slightly stronger attraction to white people if they were raised in a white family. same with blacks, hispanics, middle eastern, oriental, etc. if you had equal expose to both from early on then you probably will have a slightly stronger preference to different types depending on your friends and peers- or if its all totoally equal, then its still probably whites because that is basically what books in school teach us up to a certain point (and i bet what we learn in the younger years sticks with us all our life). in school we learn to treat everyone equally, but tv and society say different, as is pointed out in “the bias hunters”. anyway-my humble opinion is that the test is the most STUPID, DUMB, UNINTELLIGENTLY SET UP WASTE OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AAAAUUUUUUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you
My Data:
1. Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Young compared to Old. (well, I’m young…)
2. Your data suggest a moderate association of African American with Harmless Objects and European American with Weapons compared to European American with Harmless Objects and African American with Weapons. (maybe because I have African American neighbors…)
3. Your data suggest a moderate association of Native Am. with Foreign and White Am. with American compared to White Am. with Foreign and Native Am. with American. (what the…)
4. Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Gay People compared to Straight People. (well I like gay…)
5.Your data suggest a moderate association of European American with American and Asian American with Foreign compared to Asian American with American and European American with Foreign. (Holy Craaa…)
6. Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Ronald Reagan compared to George W. Bush. (ummm… maybe cuz im DEMOCRAT!!!)
7. Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Thin People compared to Fat People. (uhhhh… IM THIN!!! UNDERWEIGHT EVEN!!!)
8. Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Judaism compared to Other Religions. (this doesnt matter, coz im a SATANIST!!! BURN BURN!!!)
9. Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Abled Persons compared to Disabled Persons. (huh?)
okay: for the racial one, it said i have little or no preference between european americans and african americans, which is true. but for the gay/straight one, it siad i have a slight preference for gay people as opposed to staright, althought i try to be equally fair between the two. i have no problem with gay or straight people, and prefer none. even though im staright myself. its kinda freaky…
ok i kno im a bit late to be taking the test but i dint notice the contest when they wanted ppl to take the…test. it was a bit annoying, on both tests i took it confused me so by the time the put darkskin people in the category with good things i was messing up alot but when darkskin was in the category with bad things i got it barely any mistakes. stupid test
2nd test: Strong automatic preference to light skinned people over darker skinned people
i’m not taking the test. I don’t need anyone to tell me if I’m automatically a racist or something. It would warp my sense of percepton and my view of myself.
your data suggests little to no automatic preference for african americans compared to european americans
phew! but i agree that the test is unfair. they give u white as bad, black as good at the beginning when ur unprepared AND make u switch keys.
who agrees?
You data suggusts you connect male with carrer and females with home.
thats wierd!!!
275- I agree, somewhat, I don’t think there’s any definately perfectly accurate way to test things like that, but it’s probably close.
Your data suggests that you have no preference between Bush and Reagan.
Your data suggests that you have a strong preference to whites over blacks. I don’t know about ‘strong’, perhaps slight.
I wonder if some of what I think subconsiously has to do with what I know, I don’t know a thing about President Reagan and my town has very few blacks so I don’t know any. What do you think?
I’m glad some people agree with me here. I live in a strongly conservative town, but I strongly disagree with the policies of the Bush administration. Bush must go, but then we’d have Cheney
I could go on and on, don’t get me started.
Here is the race test results for me: “Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American.”
Huh?????????????
it’s probably true and there’s no use protesting or complaining. we’re all considerablys normal than we’d like to think
I did the presidential IAT…
With the one comparing Bush to Clinton, the results were to scrambled to make any sense, because ‘love’ kept coming up, and that associated with Clinton makes me think of Monica Lewinski, which makes me think “bad”…
but for the Thomas Jefferson one, and the Carter and the JFK one, it was all ‘strong preference against George W. Bush’
143: My mom useed to live in Yemen!
She wore a headscarf most days, and always a skirt. Even though the scarf covered her all her blond hair and she spoke fluent Arabic, everybody looked at her wierdly because of her blue eyes. She promised me she would take me to Yemen one day…
I guess that will never happen…
“Your data suggests you have no preference for straight over gay people”
I live in a pretty Liberal city, and I have gay friends and teachers. A couple of my classmates have two moms.
Theres nothing wrong with that.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic prefrecnece for light skin compared with black skin.
I’m taking the test again.
No association between Male and Female and Science and Liberal Arts.
awesomeness!
this thread is stil open!
even though the conest os over. anyhoo, looking at what i wrote, i can see why i didnt get into the mag.
GAPA, u might want to close it.
or not.
w/e, i dont care
Your data suggest little to no diferance. (not exact wording, but cool!) Koko for president!
Hey, I just realized I never posted here even though this thread is one of the reasons I came on museblog in the first place.
I did take the test:
No preference on the race test.
No preference on the age test.
Slight preference for gay people over straight people.
Slight preference for thin people over fat people.
Welcome to MuseBlog, visser3!!!
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288-*pies* velcome!