Mar 12, 2008
Sexist? Racist? Go On, Find Out!
In the comments of the (oh, so over it now) Zuckerberg/Lacy post, I invited people to take the gender and race IATs at Harvard’s Project Implicit:
Psychologists understand that people may not say what’s on their minds either because they are unwilling or because they are unable to do so. …
The unwilling-unable distinction is like the difference between purposely hiding something from others and unconsciously hiding something from yourself. The Implicit Association Test makes it possible to penetrate both of these types of hiding. The IAT measures implicit attitudes and beliefs that people are either unwilling or unable to report.
Basically, take the tests and you’ll get an idea what your unconscious mind thinks about Women, Afro-Caribbeans, Asians, Homosexuals… You name it, there’s a test there to find out just how much you secretly hate them. ;)
I found that I moderately preferred Whites to Blacks (gulp.), moderately saw Men as connected to Careers and Women connected to the Home (zoiks!) and that I moderately preferred Asians (ie Orientals in the UK) to Whites (though if you ever saw my niece, you would, too.)
Alex, my Korean-American brother-in-law, took the test and said, “I… have discovered that Asians moderately preferred Gia to other white girls.” Oh yeah! That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout, baby!
Anyway, it’s an interesting step into your unconscious mind. Obviously, I say I’m not racist or sexist, exactly like you do (we’re all, like, groovy, right?)… but my mind thinks something else…
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