This test reveals implicit biases you don't know you have

[@raulsanchez2610]

One problem with the test is that it assumes if you took longer to respond then it must be that implicit bias of yours. They don’t consider the possibility that the brain doesn’t have the same reaction time to the same situation all the time.

[@karambadodox]

Yes but the worst part is that the test starts with black people/bad white people/good , so when they switch it up, you need to think harder since you have been doing it a different way. This is where the delay comes from.

[@dannymuller7709]

@@karambadodox Wrong, these associations are randomized.

[@kristentahir4745]

@@karambadodox agreed. and honestly i didn't understand how the test was supposed to work so i wasn't really trying and was watching tv while i took it

[@Finkelly18]

@@kristentahir4745 you just pointed out the problem there. Participants who take this test are supposed to solely be focusing on the test.

[@fatalhug5998]

This makes it ableist since if you have a disability that messes with your reaction speed your dead

[@dunedainrangers1309]

The test already starts out with a bias.

[@Zulanderr]

i guess its coincidence that it starts with the groups "black, bad" "white, good"

[@Noah-up4rd]

@@Zulanderr I think you're mistaken, it starts "white, bad" "black, good" but ends up swapping the two anyways so it doesn't really matter.

[@Zulanderr]

@@Noah-up4rd check again 0:30 White face positive word, black face negative word. And if you think the starting order doesnt matter….. well you know little about research.

[@Noah-up4rd]

@@Zulanderr As someone who just had to take the actual test they took in this video for a paper, you're still completely wrong and missing the purpose of doing that entirely lol, if you really want to know they explain why they do that on the results page.

[@Zulanderr]

@@Noah-up4rd you are factually wrong about the order. If you dont even admit that simple provable fact, why would anyone listen to the rest of what you say. I have done the test as well. You seem rather naive about the bias of the makers of the test; they start with the result and work backwards to make a test to generate the results that justify their flimsy assertion of bias. I am well aware of the purpose of the test- it is to prove that white people are racist and that white people also make black people racist (quelle surprise). A load of bunkum.

[@coppermoth6069]

I took the 2017 version of the implicit bias test, I noticed that the words that I was the most likely to mess up on were “tragedy” “disaster” “grief” “agony” as well as “lucky” and “diamond” When I think of tragedy, grief, and agony, I think of the horrors of the trans Atlantic slave trade, the Jim Crow laws, and police brutality When I think of natural disasters, I think about hurricane Katrina, and poor communities that have a more difficult time building back When I think about luck, I think about “white privilege When I think about diamonds, I think about unfair distribution of wealth, and how the richest 1% are privileged white men According to the test these perspectives are associated with racism against black people It seems like the test is encouraging color blindness, the only way to have no bias would be to believe that white and black people have experienced the same amount of luck, tragedy, grief, and agony, and have the same amount of wealth

[@Dreamheart101]

Wait...it's supposed to measure your associated connotations with those words? The thing I've always struggled with thinking of? 😭 God dammit I swear this test was built against me

[@Nork490]

This sounds like the premise for a dystopian science fiction movie.

[@basketballion]

The way I have overcome my implicit bias, is by flipping the narrative in my head. When I see a person now, in stead of looking for faults in them, in order to make myself feel better about myself, now I look for the best in people. I look for positive qualities in everyone i see. And it's easy to find them after you start looking for them ❤️❤️❤️

[@vincenzopromedia]

I don’t think there’s anything necessarily wrong with having a bias in general, I think you’d have to get a little more specific about what is wrong with having a bias before getting into what we could do to change that. I don’t think not having any bias all together necessarily has any advantages over having some. So I wouldn’t automatically stand for that especially without knowing all the facts first. I know I have biases. Mostly based on my knowledge of people and experiences. If I met more people, have more experiences, and studied more subjects, I wouldn’t doubt my biases would probably change, but I doubt I’d lose them altogether. I think I’m more shocked that these people honestly thought they didn’t have any biases at all. Biases are natural and sometimes necessary to defend our wellbeing. It’s crazy to me to think they didn’t think they had any biases.

[@aradan4955]

Why is is it start with white good at first I want to see someone to filliped and see the results

[@lukem3720]

they do. When you take the test they flip it in every variation you take it 4 or 5 times, it’s also randomized with which one you start with. It’s the same both ways

[@aradan4955]

Lucas Misclevitz I took the test two times and they where both the same way

[@leodellapietra]

@@aradan4955 They put the easy answers first: Good, white, Cis- , Normal, so that you have time to learn how the test works 🙂 You're right: after a while of answering your brain gets tired and slows down. So the Bad-White Good-Black associations which come in second instance need more time anyhow, increasing the measured bias. The test has a bias. One more point: this test it's not able to detect if the bias is yours or if you're more used to bias from your continuous daily experience of bias in the society: Police-Handcuffs-Person. I guess the person most people imagine is black. That's what the TV shows, not what we "desire". How does the test distinguish that? Last point: This test has an USA tint. When I answer I'm white, why does it ask me if I'm Latino or not? I'm from EU. These distinctions are not applicable here. I guess even more so in other parts of the world. If I had low consideration of the test outcome, now I really feel it's short-sighted and provincial.

[@seanwool]

You would get the exact opposite result. The same would happen if you replaced black and white with horses and cows. I have never seen a version of this test that starts with black and positive on the same side and there is a reason for that. All this test does is train your right index finger to respond to white and positive and your left index finger to respond to black and negative. When it asks us to deviate from the training, it becomes more difficult and we act surprised. I seriously can't believe that anybody thinks this test has any validity whatsoever.

[@eartheclipse8]

They do? Mine did

[@vincenzopromedia]

I don’t see how the latency in a response indicates bias. Is there absolutely no other explanation? What about boredom?

[@lettytorres5449]

Latency ergo means hesitancy, meaning you need to think about your association more than compared to other associations. If you are quicker in grouping black folks with negative words, than with white folks, you have a bias.

[@vincenzopromedia]

@@lettytorres5449 That's a philosophical theory. It might even be more likely to assume that, but it's not absolutely true.

[@lettytorres5449]

@@vincenzopromedia nope. I studied cognitive psychology and this is very reputable as it borrows from cog psych and applies the same logic to social psychology. It is also referring to our schemas and how we organize and retrieve information that are closely linked together through associations. Also read up on the Stroop Task (bottom up versus top down processing) because it inspired the IAT.

[@vincenzopromedia]

@@lettytorres5449 Yo I disagree. I don't think that's a fool proof way of finding biases. The reactions from this exercise are not absolutely certain to be interpreted as the theory of the exercise claims. Needing to think about your association more than compared to other associations could be for any reason, not solely because you have a bias for one over the other. I don't doubt this innate reaction applies, or parallels to other aspects of how our brains work, and react to other people, and information, I don't care how many other studies it parallels, and applies to, you can't jump to the conclusion that hesitancy is an absolute indication of bias. It is only a possibility of bias, which leaves us at basically nowhere.

[@neilorourke71]

@@vincenzopromedia In the next two years this will be required for employment.

[@tylerjdavis]

Yes because being "free" and "online" are totally credible

[@ramkumarr1725]

I was biased when I took it. I gave it to a PhD colleague of mine. He was biased. I vowed never to administer these psychological tests to people..Seriously scary mind tricks. I saw that person's hands shudder and shake. Another test was that Moral Foundation Model. These things get us worried. I am with Shawshank Redemption : "Son, you go ahead and stamp your forms. Rehabilitated. That is a bullsh+t word. A politicians word. I wish to meet my friend in the Pacific and I imagine it as blue as in my dreams" (sic). Red.

[@derrickjac]

IAT is our era's version of Phrenology. IAT start from a bias. It is an explanation in search of a question. This is especially evident when you see Greenwald declaring it doesn't predict future behavior and the widely varying results of repeated IATs. It's an inroad to demolishing the meritocracy and replacing it with false equality vis a vis equality of opportunities. There are much better ways for people to confront biases that do not employ this kind of divisive and controversial "training".

[@tpiechnik]

and yet now in 2021 I think a lot of people do not have biases per se, but try to actively look at a black person's face. that could explain the delay.

[@BarnardClangdeggin]

Has Minaji yet publicly stated that the reliability and validity of the IAT makes it an unworthy psychometric test?

[@MixMeMcGee]

Though the experts here have shared that rewriting our biases is essentially unhelpful, I wonder what hope there might be to rewrite a bias narrative. Maybe something “Formed over a lifetime” could be rewritten over the rest of a lifetime?

[@PCLHH]

This just shows how we've been brainwashed.

[@EightyBeat]

I'm learning about this brainwash simulator right now in class. Its scary... they teach this

[@neilorourke71]

I'll bet you $10 that in 2 years this will be required for all employment

[@EightyBeat]

@@neilorourke71 they already started it. :o

[@amadeusdebussy6736]

So, where's the data that shows correlation between any implicit bias as shown by this test and actual real world bias? Without that this simply seems like Freudian-esque pseudo-science.

[@neilorourke71]

dingdingding

[@jedimasterham2]

Worst designed test I've ever viewed. It forces you to select only one, and in no way implies "implicit bias" in any form.

[@Misserbi]

The genuis behind racial slurring is it can connect to both race and family for the purpose of distancing or silencing something seen as "foreign or obstructive." We are supposed to practice self control. What I mean is we are not supposed to be impulsive. But the one who thinks it is an offense to be approached by a community member who is simply reaching out is someone who I think is really a candidate for psychiatry. It is insane to approach something so raw and intense without support or in the least help and guidance. God knows why innocence is viewed with a bias when it tries to look inside. Some people naturally want to be left alone. We are social beings who need to learn how to live with one another. I still think developing a sense and sticking with truth is what it is all about. Spirituality helps too.

[@pujashrestha4259]

I tried many time with different topic , but I didn’t see result .

[@annomaly751]

Is there anti-prejudice training? If so what’s name of it?

[@IzaakCha7]

so the test demands that you do the very thing that it claims is proof of your implicit bias. What a horrible test

[@leodellapietra]

Am I biased or do I live in a biased society? We bath constantly in the associations this test is based upon, it's nothing unexpected that most of us take a (even slightly) longer time to make associations that are distinguished from societal biases than associations that are in line with societal biases. Is this test able to distinguish individual bias from societal bias? I do not sincerely know, but I suspect it is not, given the simplicity of its design. To me it looks like another bloody "American psychology profiling test". ...wait! Is that a bias I have? I do not know. Maybe we should profile psychology profiling tests from the USA and see how they perform against anonymized tests.

[@ohstevo]

there are so many things wrong with this test. black bad has grammatical pattern that makes it easier to connect than white bad. most mids will recognize and pursuit easy or pleasing things to say. this does not make someone racist.

[@joanfahrney1541]

My (29) results all came back little to no preference... 😮

[@pigeon0213]

How to a i unbrainwash myself

[@timwh7467]

Subject 182 reporting for political realignment therapy. ---------------------------- I think I'll pass

[@albizureyes9550]

That test fake word of my mother

[@professordrabhijitsayamber2299]

Om shanti k good

[@believeinyourself5545]

Wsc

[@SkollReaver]

BS

[@joelwieland1767]

Laughing at racist jokes doesn't mean you're a ricist... that's why it's called jokes

[@P4GYY]

Bullshit.