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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 8:16 am
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking is the title of the book by Malcolm Gladwell, How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? The author was on WGN Radio and they linked to a quiz on Race Relations...Race Relation (I believe you enter the demonstration part > "It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology." Yes, keep clicking, and then there's a page of several different 'quizes' including... sexuality This IAT requires the ability to distinguish words and symbols representing gay and straight people. It often reveals an automatic preference for straight relative to gay people. and the This IAT requires the ability to distinguish faces of European and African origin. It indicates that most Americans have an automatic preference for white over black... the radio host tried to figure it out to bend the results... and I dont know what the outcome of that was!!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 3:07 pm
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Black People relative to White People. The interpretation shown above is described as 'automatic preference for Black People' if you responded faster when Black People faces and Good words were classified with the same key as opposed to White People faces and Good words. It is marked 'automatic preference for White People' if you were faster when giving the same response to White People faces and Good words. Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic preference may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'. (Ed.- I chose the Canadian site, and took the European/African test. I'm not sure whether others will take the same test, as most of you live in the States. Interesting test though. Wow you have to go fast!! I had a total of 3 wrong answers.)
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 3:15 pm
Maybe It's my computer, but I couldn't do the test.
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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 5:58 pm
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African American relative to European American On the age one, I showed no preference for either old or young. On the gay/straight one, I showed a slight preference for straight people. I have the book, but haven't had a chance to read it yet. I really liked his book The Tipping Point, so when I saw this one at Costco, I grabbed it. Then I started reading all these good things about it. 
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 11:30 pm
interesting. It is funny how our subconscious seems to take our fingers over LOL
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 1:49 am
What I find interesting is that I don't know a single black person (in person that is). I wonder if my supposed "preference" is due to our human tendency towards "novel" things. In the GAY test, I had a more straight preference, however I ONLY have gay friends here in person. Oh wait, my former roomie is straight. But yeah, I think there is something more to the test than what they put out there....Confounding variables or something.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 11:12 pm
I think they should have asked whether we are right handed or left handed. THAT would have been significant.
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Lancecrossfire
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Monday, March 21, 2005 - 3:16 pm
You have completed the Race-Weapons IAT. The line immediately below summarizes the results of your task performance. Your data suggest little or no automatic racial association with Weapons or Harmless Objects
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Lancecrossfire
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Monday, March 21, 2005 - 3:29 pm
You have completed the Fat People-Thin People IAT. The line immediately below summarizes the results of your task performance. Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for THIN PEOPLE relative to FAT PEOPLE
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Tashakinz
Member
11-13-2002
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 7:47 am
Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for White American relative to Black American
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 7:57 am
Wow- this was a surprise to me! "Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for Kerry relative to Bush" HUH!??!!!
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:49 am
Your data suggest little or no identity with David Letterman relative to Jay Leno Your data suggest little or no identity with Coke relative to Pepsi Your data suggest a moderate identity with Democrats relative to Republicans Your data suggest a moderate identity with White relative to Asian Your data suggest a strong identity with Nerds relative to Jocks heehee Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Conforming relative to Rebellious These are fun, but wow. There's a LOT of them!
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:52 am
Is there a way to get to a specific test, or choose one or whatever or do you just take what you get?
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 3:28 am
I think it is BS. Of course my fingers moved faster at the end part. I was getting used to the system. They need a margin of time which allows you to get acclimated to how it works. As it went on, I got quicker. It didn't matter who was on the screen.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 2:28 pm
I question the validity of the tests too. Sure, they mixed it up and put "good/bad," "black/white," "old/young" on various sides of the screen. But once I did it one way, it was basically "learned." When I had to switch up sides, I had to stop and "re-learn" where each keystroke should be.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 5:14 pm
Ahhh Who, I'm with you; I took my "Research Methods" course in university, and my teacher taught us how to trash the validity of almost anything and everything. Now I've become this cold, jaded, skeptical shell of a human being! I was wondering how they take into account the change of sides and association, especially with the computer being able to time the speed of our answers, as well as the number wrong. They eliminate the dominant side variable by changing the sides on us, and they eliminate the association by switching which group is with good and bad. I would imagine they could look at the rate of "learning" that participants exhibit as they go through the test. I think back to that "reaction" test that someone posted where we ha to hit a button and it timed us. Anyways, I just think about whether they use the measure of learning and adjust their conclusions accordingly.

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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 5:32 pm
Yeah,I agree. I one of them about a half hour ago. Been sitting here thinking about it since. I'm not buying it.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 5:35 pm
This is from their FAQ section: #6 How does the IAT measure implicit attitudes? Answer: The IAT asks you to pair two concepts (e.g., young and good, or elderly and good). The more closely associated the two concepts are, the easier it is to respond to them as a single unit. So, if young and good are strongly associated, it should be easier to respond faster when you are asked to give the same response (i.e. the 'E' or 'I' key) to these two. If elderly and good are not so strongly associated, it should be harder to respond fast when they are paired. This gives a measure of how strongly associated the two types of concepts are. The more associated, the more rapidly you should be able to respond. The IAT is the only method for measuring implicit or automatic attitudes that is demonstrated on this website. However, there are other methods, using different procedures, that have been investigated in laboratory studies.
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