Harvard Implicit Test Skin Color AI has you sort images into categories with positive and negative words. This test often reveals your automatic preference for light-skin relative to dark-skin or vice versa. It's a subconscious test so do what it tells you without overthinking. It takes 10 minutes.
Jesse Singal - New York Mag "A pile of scholarly work, some of it published in top psychology journals and most of it ignored by the media, suggests that the IAT falls far short of the quality-control standards normally expected of psychological instruments. The IAT, this research suggests, is a noisy, unreliable measure that correlates far too weakly with any real-world outcomes to be used to predict individuals’ behavior — even the test’s creators have now admitted as such. The history of the test suggests it was released to the public and excitedly publicized long before it had been fully validated in the rigorous, careful way normally demanded by the field of psychology. In fact, there’s a case to be made that Harvard shouldn’t be administering the test in its current form, in light of its shortcomings and its potential to mislead people about their own biases."
This test is shit. "Your result is described as an "Automatic preference for Dark Skinned People over Light Skinned People" if you were faster responding when Dark Skinned People and Good are assigned to the same response key than when Light Skinned People and Good were classified with the same key. Your score is described as an "Automatic preference for Light Skinned People over Dark Skinned People" if the opposite occured." How can you determine someone's preference based on how fast they answered? Of course I'm gonna answer faster at the end when I'm used to the "game", and of course they put "light skin and good" assigned to the same response key at the end LOL That way most people will get a preference for light skin.
Lol at asking what my current gender identity is XD That's one reason Jager66 called them SJW lmfao Should have known it was gonna be shit after this xD
cdn.americanprogress.org/.../implicit-results.png They switch it the pairing enough that rehearsal isn't a factor. I did hesitate on ones that i didn't agree with like all of them and the word fabulous (they were some ugly ass characters) so speed is connected to how much you agree.
I don't disagree with what I got (preference for light skin), but I do think the way it was set up was a good reason for my result. I mean, when I was doing it, the last few parts I was like "ok, I'm getting the hang of it" that's why I went faster, cause I remembered what each key meant. At first I was a bit more careful cause I was still trying to figure out what was what.
As a caveat, I took the test while slightly intoxicated. I didn't realize I'd be doing like a speed-association video game kind of thing.
Here is your result: Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Light Skinned People over Dark Skinned People.
Your result is described as an "Automatic preference for Dark Skinned People over Light Skinned People" if you were faster responding when Dark Skinned People and Good are assigned to the same response key than when Light Skinned People and Good were classified with the same key. Your score is described as an "Automatic preference for Light Skinned People over Dark Skinned People" if the opposite occurred.
It says that culture has a large part in it rather than familiarity.
"A simple preference for the ingroup might partially explain implicit bias for white respondents. However, it is also more than that. There are plenty of tests on which people prefer one group or the other even when they do not belong to either group. For example, Asian participants tend to show an implicit preference for White people relative to Black people. In this sense the IAT might also reflect what is learned from a culture that does not regard Black people as highly as White people. It is also interesting to note that about half of Black participants show an implicit preference for White people relative to Black people… this would certainly not reflect an ingroup bias."
Interesting. I guess my culture is virtually white too, because i'm honestly the least Asian person you'll ever meet haha. So both familiarity and 2x cultures are pointing me towards lighter skinned people.
Although i would like to have seen my results if they had started with dark & good on the I key, because by the time they switched i had already "practiced" that key for a certain combo (also most people use a right handed mouse so the trained clicking finger was on I).
Ahhhh I've taken that before. I got the same results as you. I was surprised because as a white guy from a rural area, I fully expected to have subconscious racial biases that would reveal themselves in that test.
Yeah probably. Universities are well known, well established, bastions of radical left wing thought, especially the Ivy league ones an NON stem departments. Most Universities are nearly 100% Feminist/SJW Liberal professors and in the "Social Sciences" it's especially bad!
If this is a surprise to you then you probably need to come out from under that rock you've been living under.
I went to college. We are talking about Objective facts here not Subjective experiences though so even if I didn't go to College I would still be right.
That's a dumb test. Like, I said to myself, "my results are gonna be skewed cuz I'm taking long on the early part cuz I'm learning how to take the test". Then at the end... they said that could skew results! What's the point of the stupid thing if they know the order they ask questions will skew the test? Bad design
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Your result is described as an "Automatic preference for Dark Skinned People over Light Skinned People" if you were faster responding when Dark Skinned People and Good are assigned to the same response key than when Light Skinned People and Good were classified with the same key. Your score is described as an "Automatic preference for Light Skinned People over Dark Skinned People" if the opposite occured.
Umm... I have a concern with one of the questions. It said: "I consider my skin tone to be" and I can't decide to choose between medium or somewhat dark because every scale is different...
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