How Egalitarian Are You Truly?

You have completed the Presidential Popularity IAT.
The line immediately below summarizes the results of your task performance.

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for George W. Bush compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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interesting, if not false. :)
 
I did weapons race, I got:

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.

Presidents:

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for George W. Bush compared to Thomas Jefferson.


Yeah well, maybe a little I guess, fucking tricky things, I know that's the point, but there's a certain amount of coordination that I think needs to be taken into account :p.
 
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for George W. Bush compared to John F. Kennedy.
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I think this is because I made a lot more mistakes when the categories were switched after a while. I think having Bush in the same column as good the first time through made a difference. I especially think this because at the beginning I rated Kennedy higher than Bush in my ranking. Either I made too many mistakes or the way the test is structured screwed it up, what can I say.
 
Your data suggest a slight association of Male with Career and Female with Family compared to Female with Career and Male with Family.
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shocking.

did the Gender:Career test. maybe i can get EC for my Marriage and Family soc class for this...
 
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Light Skin and Dark Skin.

Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Other People and Arab Muslims.

moderate prefence of other religions over judaism.

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.

Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American.

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for George W. Bush compared to Abraham Lincoln.

Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Gay People and Straight People.

Your data suggest little or no association between Male and Female with Career and Family.
 
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for George W. Bush compared to Richard Nixon.

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Other Religions compared to Judaism.

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for White compared to Black.
 
I did wonder about the methodology as I took those.

It seems to me that the entire test is based on reaction/input times. Secondary those times were really fucked up IMHO when they would flip the names/faces/images and the good/bad adjectives.

It was like trying to gague your skill at Halo 2 by changing your control setup 4 times, inverting your look axis and changing the move function to the right stick as opposed to left and making your look function left stick as opposed to right stick.

I understand what they were trying to do in seeing if you had an immediate preference in attributing negative words following a particular image but yes, the methodology did leave me wanting.

What truly puzzled me on the Bush/Nixon comparison is I rated them similar Bush being a 6, Nixon being a 7 before hand yet the test produced a strong favorable push to Bush over Nixon, which doesn't exist. I think both have/had outstanding foreign policy and horrendous domestic policies.

Since my experience with survey methodology is more statistical and sample driven I'm not qualified to judge the speed/contrast psychological aspects of what they were trying to accomplish.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Nobody's criticizing the methodology yet; strange.[/quote]

Well, I did think it was a little odd. I wonder if this works better with certains kinds of thinking than others. I know at a few points I got 5 or 6 wrong in a row.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']Well, I did think it was a little odd. I wonder if this works better with certains kinds of thinking than others. I know at a few points I got 5 or 6 wrong in a row.[/QUOTE]

I understand the theory behind it, in terms of gauging reaction times to get at immediate associations (e.g., white = "good," black = "bad") that underlie many implicit forms of racism. For instance, what *immediately* comes to mind when you encounter a black person or white person on the street; how many times do you start with the assumption that the white person may be on welfare compared to blacks? Even if you're willing to correct that memory in your mind before making a true judgment, your mind automatically gravitates towards certain assumptions that would label you as favoring one group over another. That is to say, this test, I feel, gets at your "gut-level" racism/sexism/whatnot, but it doesn't account for one's ability to interfere with that potential "-ism" before you act upon it.

I'm also concered that some people might simply lack the coordination to successfully do this kind of test; probably not anyone reading this forum, but some people really lack what I call "web literacy" such that this test exposes a bias that is more the result of their inability to use a keyboard than anything else.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I understand the theory behind it, in terms of gauging reaction times to get at immediate associations (e.g., white = "good," black = "bad") that underlie many implicit forms of racism. For instance, what *immediately* comes to mind when you encounter a black person or white person on the street; how many times do you start with the assumption that the white person may be on welfare compared to blacks? Even if you're willing to correct that memory in your mind before making a true judgment, your mind automatically gravitates towards certain assumptions that would label you as favoring one group over another. That is to say, this test, I feel, gets at your "gut-level" racism/sexism/whatnot, but it doesn't account for one's ability to interfere with that potential "-ism" before you act upon it.

I'm also concered that some people might simply lack the coordination to successfully do this kind of test; probably not anyone reading this forum, but some people really lack what I call "web literacy" such that this test exposes a bias that is more the result of their inability to use a keyboard than anything else.[/quote]

One of my concerns is whether people are actually thinking about the connection. I thought it was interesting and enjoyed doing them, but I also was essentially trying to match the categories with left or right. One set of terms was good, one was bad, so I'd be thinking "black, good, right. White, bad, left" and then switch it when the terms switched. I was categorizing things under which key I was hitting. It would be interesting to know the validity of this.

Though, also, I wonder if its testing how the person percieves things, or simply what the person is most familiar with. The results on george bush seems to be evidence that it's testing whats familiar and not what is actually preferred. It seems people are unanimously getting bush, even liberals. Hell, its telling me I have a preference for him over Lincoln. While I'm more skeptical of lincoln than most, I can't imagine I'd prefer bush over him.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Nobody's criticizing the methodology yet; strange.[/QUOTE]

I did, maybe not clearly enough. I think that it's like playing 2 levels where A is jump and B is fire, then playing the next two levels with A as fire and B as jump. Of course you are going to get used to the original configuration and be a little off when you are asked to reverse it. I know I made a bunch more mistakes on the second part because of this.

[quote name='evanft']I was taking the gay-straight one, but it was taking too long, so I quit.[/QUOTE]

That means you favor asexual over straight/gay. :lol:
 
You have completed the Presidential Popularity IAT.
The line immediately below summarizes the results of your task performance.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Abraham Lincoln compared to George W. Bush.
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It may be right, but the entire point seems to be fucking up all your responses after training your fingers. :lol:
 
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