How to test for implicit racial bias

People may be biased against a certain race, but they don’t even know it. That’s because it could be an implicit bias, which refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect us in an unconscious way. Global News explains how the most accessible way to test for it works and what this data means.
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[@kippen64]

There's lots of people who are neither white or black.

[@unafraidarsanal3049]

Yeah useless to watch the video

[@anomalianomali5080]

70% of people on earth are not black and white people

[@Motormouthmachine]

Exactly!

[@maxim_beatbox]

Yeah but the whole point of the test is to show that everyone has racial bias, not really to show the exact races that people have specific biases against.

[@mandahi]

True. But this can be extended to all the people labelled as non -white and called the minority : African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics.

[@666bleedforme]

Everybody on this planet has racial bias. Even though they might say they don't, they still do.

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

maybe. Some have more and others less though. The difference between a subconscious feeling and a dirty look and a lynching

[@johannuolotu8810]

Empowerment and subjugation can also play a big role. European descent advantage /privilege. There is a saying ´´ every success of people of African descent in a developed economy countries is a sadness of people of European descent people.´´

[@666bleedforme]

@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 oh my God you witnessed a lynching. It must have been horrible that you saw an actual person being hung because of the colour of their skin in North America. Understanding India and Africa and some of those other places it happens all the time.

[@666bleedforme]

@@johannuolotu8810 so what you're saying is every time there's a successful black person white people are sad. Interesting thought. Wrong but interesting. I think it's actually the other way around because it seems some blacks are upset about white success.

[@tabithaedie]

I think it is more character bias than color bias!

[@flamingphoenix824]

They’re forgetting the factor of novelty in their experiment. There are simply people who have less exposure and less time spent with races as compared to their own familiar race. I hypothesize that this novelty affect produces the same results.

[@sucram1018]

What if some people have lots of exposure to other races buy choose to associate with people that mainly look like them? And they have a racial bias? I'm not saying you don't have a point but many people are exposed to different races but choose to not engage with them and have biases.

[@statusbrowser3443]

thats the point... if you are surrounded by white people your whole life and interact with very few colored people of course you will have a bias towards white people

[@jessetorres8738]

Personally, I feel that the phrase "But they're/you're one of the good ones" is the most racist thing a person can say. The reason why is because what that person implies when they say this is that they found someone who disproves their racist ideology but they're still going to believe it anyway.

[@gopherlee9427]

I completely agree with you.

[@MsHojat]

Yeah I remember doing this test years ago and felt pretty skeptical about it. Where's the proof that it's showing a bias?

[@OhioPolarBear]

The results.

[@aguspuig6615]

@@OhioPolarBear but the results are given by the test and validated by no one but the test itself, its like saying, ''i never lie, because im telling the truth'' ''who proves thats true'' ''me''

[@user-hf4eh2ts3q]

@@OhioPolarBear you can easily fool that test and all the others like it.

[@ronaldbernard8139]

Oh goody a test, do I get a participation star after?

[@StephenWong14]

I don't actually mind implicit bias precisely because it's implicit. If you secretly hate me, I won't judge you as long as you show me respect and don't try to stab me in the back.

[@coldpizza292]

This is just another form of violence. Let’s say someone invented test for implicit bias in terms of sexuality. Are you going to use it to tell whether someone is gay or straight?

[@pauzolen3108]

Lutpj

[@diamond13130]

I’ll tell the truth, I live in a diverse area, because I like a little mix of everything, but if you ask me among who do I prefer I will have to say white people, not because I like them more, but because I feel safest among them. Don’t need a “bias test” for that.

[@OpenTheTrollGate]

lollllllllllllllllllllllll

[@DankyKangSkrubmister]

So youre just racist? lol

[@howard4558]

I'd say that's a little racist tbh, but I think I know what you were trying to say. Even really liberal people can be racist.

[@gamelandmaster3680]

I respect that you showed your opinion in-front of a crowd. I personally am not that kind of guy but I know it takes guts to say something like that.

[@user-nz6bk7lf8u]

​@@howard4558 racist is fear of to the point of gate because their race. Taking facts and applying them to the safety of your life is not racist. Learn words n quit just saying crap.

[@DHart293]

How to decrease/turn around racial biases or any biases? It's NOT by doing our own research... Each of us has the responsibility to EXPLICITLY be kind and courteous - respectful to others differences - obey the rules, norms, and law of society, and work hard in them...every single day, every single time. When each of us has done that... I can guarantee you that ours and others biases will be decreased if not eliminated. COOPERATION is the key!

[@_devil__0nline67]

There will always be those who believe they are superior weather they believe to see it or not

[@epicnerf9486]

If we don't conduct our own research into theses matters How can we even come to a more accurate conclusion? I prefer not to have someone else do the thinking for me. I find that the main cause of a difference in outcome in success and quality of life when comparing different races and ethnic groups is due to inherent qualities that differ from one race of people to another. Not racial bias expressed by whites. However, some organizations in high positions wish to use these differences as a way to create a false narrative to push their agenda. If they can keep whites feeling guilty for their success by giving them the idea that they are racist and minorities the idea that they can find empowerment through their victimhood then these evil organizations have won. Its a simple divide and conquer strategy that was attempted by Hitler and Mussolini in the 1940's during WWII in an attempt to justify fascism and marxism. I'm not saying that the individuals who are apart of these organisations all have bad intent. What I am saying is that the foundation for what they believe is causing a difference in outcome among different races and ethnic groups is empirically incorrect. As a matter of fact their ideology is causing more racial tension due to the demonization of white culture and our heritage. There are many people of influence in high places who know this. Which is why they are cramming this false ideology down our throats. Social equity or crt is simply one facet among many facets that they use to denigrate the human race with in an attempt to consolidate power for themselves by makiing it appear to be a virtuous cause even though it really isn't.

[@chairman3427]

I do not have a responsibility to do any of the things you just said. What you gonna do about it?

[@tletransport1583]

In the Auto dealer business. I have to let most of the female reps close deals on the auto sales, compared to my Afro male employees. Customers don't ask too many questions when the sales representatives are Afro male versus Caucasian or Afro women. The customers smile a lot and feel easygoing, but with my Male representatives, customers have little to say even when they say the same thing as the women, but that's how the world was set up as default thinking.

[@theodoreturner5567]

Is this like the unconscious bias we see in the media towards those who are conservative?

[@theodoreturner5567]

@Gerry Atric So you are saying the bias is conscience?

[@johannuolotu8810]

Life experience can also lead to all kind of biases.

[@78.BANDIT]

ALL life experiences do. Thats what makes you who you are. And that not good or bad. It's just life.

[@ranp105]

The IAT doesn't deny that.. It just measures implicit bias without paying attention to origins of said bias as they are irrelevant to the outcome of the test.

[@user-hf4eh2ts3q]

no, go slow on the test when it flashes those things fast.

[@MrKajjaGG]

How to make up buzzwords that get parroted online to defend criminals.

[@Spartanoffaith]

Call me a racist long enough I'll stop trying to prove you wrong. I'll resign myself to prove you 100% right.

[@danielleslie254]

Josephs house has a coat of many colors and it is covered by the blood of the Lamb !

[@michellehean4941]

Ok. Your comment is VERY strange. But it could be a good kids' book (PG if you include the lamb blood). Oh, and your friend Joseph's resale value will go WAY down if he paints his house using more than two complementing shades.

[@WhoTube277]

Say 'Candyman' five times in front of a mirror.

[@marilyngentle2777]

Very interesting especially from a UK perspective as I struggle with African American, not all americans are from African heritabe so what about just Black or Black American, we have Afro Caribbean as a category here and as annoying as it is it does acknowledge that not all black people are of African heritage, it is a battle that we fight here as children that black people are believed to be from Jamaica or Africa - just those two specific places lol. The test was good

[@WAYOFTHEROADBAND]

I haven't done a racist thing in my life Canada is made up of 100 different races and we learned that in public school. People shouldn't worry so much.

[@alanmacification]

I have my own test. 1) Do you believe that humans are divided into distinct races? 2) Do you believe that there are significant differences in these races. 3) Do you believe there is a hierarchy of superiority in these differences. If you believe #1, you are a racist. #2 and #3 are just the logical outcome of believing #1.

[@alanmacification]

@crispycritter223 No it isn't. I don't have a daughter. Are you answering the right person?

[@kyled3660]

1 and 2 are empirically true. 3 is an opinion. Your test is ridiculous.

[@aguspuig6615]

so acknlowledjing there are different races makes you a racist? what?

[@giaxxx5085]

@@aguspuig6615 races do not exist scientifically there is only one race the human race.

[@michaelrogers3857]

We are different races how is that racist, mostly physical differences. Not rlly a hierarchy

[@mariano2078]

You Need A Text For The Doctors That Study Implicit Bias

[@Picklemedia]

This video is being race-ioed

[@blagoevski336]

ok

[@deepthoughts8393]

What’s next thought control?

[@epicnerf9486]

They have already been doing that for decades upon decades. Particularly through the media and our educational system.

[@tinyflyingdragons9432]

Mine told me i am racist against white people but i am white myself and i don't understand how that can be

[@3rdeyekweenmaat899]

Most of the people who are so upset about this video are reiterating the point

[@rosettaglover4245]

This is deep

[@rds9872]

Lmao this is literally one of the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. They’re literally putting a bunch of bad things on the screen and then throwing a black guy up on the screen and trying to confuse you into labeling black people as also bad not saying they’re good fast enough. 😂

[@Jon-gm2sn]

Get Google to release the conversions they heard Easily see where racism comes from

[@TheWorldisSoDivided]

I love being white. Thank you. Love who you are.

[@jasonnwajei7876]

Lol

[@mikepict9011]

I enjoy having thinner skin too btw , granted skin cancer and burn sensitivity. But also general sensitivity and radiation therapy. Everything is double edged in biology. Everything. Part of homeostasis. Obviously

[@blagoevski336]

Same

[@Michael_Feehan]

Daaam, i didnt know i was racist until now :(

[@jamiesiple7703]

cool global news saying everybody who watches the news think the wrong thought, i thought global news job is to report the news, i was wrong,

[@CSteven59]

It's called survival or self-preservation.

[@user-nz6bk7lf8u]

This isn't bias though? This is only showing your opinion of situations not why you conclude those opinions ane how logical coming to them are. This is the most shoddy psychological experiment. And now reaching out and trying to understand others means putting a burden on them? People are too self entitled. People shouod be thankful when community reaches out and wants them. Live a life with a socially ostracizing mental disease and then whine to me about social burden being included. Freakin pathetic.

[@TheWorldisSoDivided]

Hire more blondes.

[@alexomar9628]

Stop just 🛑 don’t insult Black People Intelligence, just stop you and CJOB

[@graytongoldsmith7764]

First!

[@traveler5973]

big lips matter

[@questioneverything2469]

Take the test

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

looks like a whole lotta racists downvoted the video... I mean, the video actually critiques the methods of psychologists and explains it. Implicit bias on full display here, people automatically downvoted it without even giving it a chance

[@NegativeBodhiImage]

I outright reject your neo-Marxist framework of systemic racism, and White supremacy in its totality. Its garbage. Its based on an incoherent set of esoteric assumptions, and is rigged to burden all White people with some moral original sin (racism) to explain outcomes that are easily attributable to other factors. Unless White ppl reject this framing this destruction of our cultures and nations will never stop.

[@ronaldbernard8139]

🐑💉🖕

[@johndekuyper2644]

@@NegativeBodhiImage yes

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

@@NegativeBodhiImage exactly what a racist would do. There are no esoteric assumptions. The behavior of white people has been throughout history to subjugate other people of other colors. To this day, and the fact that you're unable to see it despite the statistical evidence is part of your implicit racist attitude

[@TheElMuffin]

This video does not critique it, it promotes it. First it introduces it, then it elaborates. There's one very brief statement from a detractor, and a very lengthy one from a promoter. Third is a "but there are other ways to test for bias". By this point the video assumes the viewer is on board and the IAT test for implicit racial bias is fully accepted completely valid (it's not, it is largely rejected for it's interpretations of bias as marker for racism), basically saying "now that you know you're racist and didn't know it, here's what you do..." The closing is a "matter of fact" statement from an unnamed interviewee who drops an absolute gem of a bomb by saying that you shouldn't ask your friend of a different culture or race about how to not be such a racist towards them. This is literally a chick going "if you don't know what you did wrong, I'm not gonna tell you". Instead this last girl invites you to accept that you're just a racist prick and to ask your friend instead about how to better support them. Look up slavery in general: Barbary slave trade, slave trade in Africa, Arab slave trade, slavery in India, slavery in Asia. Hold on to your trousers now, I'm about to blow your mind: the behaviour of people has been throughout history to subjugate other people.

[@rds9872]

I love the lady at the end. So many of these sjw blacks spend countless hours protesting and talking about racism all over the internet but as soon they’re asked to defend their views all of a sudden it’s too much of a burden for them to speak on it any further. Of course it perfectly acceptable to have a conversation about how we can support them though. In other words don’t ask an sjw to defend their statements just assume everything they say is correct and ask them for your marching orders.

[@TheFanguy123]

black people*

[@rds9872]

@@TheFanguy123 What’s wrong with saying blacks? Or has that word become racist now?

[@TheFanguy123]

the word "black" isn't racist, however referring to black people as "blacks" is seen as derogatory

[@rds9872]

@@TheFanguy123 Everything is seen as derogatory by people who want to slander others as racists. Don’t buy into these word games. If it isn’t intended to be derogatory then it isn’t.