Comments on: Are you a biased voter?

By: daycruz

daycruz — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:09:47 +0000

Redneck is not a race.

Ohh… it so is.

By: elemental

elemental — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:20:09 +0000

big whoopee... I'm sure the reverse statement would hold up experimentally as well - That study found that supporters of candidate Kerry and other liberals had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against rednecks than conservatives did.

Redneck is not a race.

By: echs_one

echs_one — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:52:39 +0000

I have run in to this test before, I think it is bunk and I fail to see what it accomplishes The test conditions you to respond a cretin way to the different categories, then changes the semantics on you. Obviously, you are going to get the categories mixed up…

By: Madurai Vivekan

Madurai Vivekan — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:21:32 +0000

Meh, whatever. It’s just an indicator which may or may not be accurate (I would like a detailed explanation of their methods). We all have our prejudices – it’s all about either engaging with them – or suppressing them

By: Al_Mujahid_for_debauchery(Big f****** D)

Al_Mujahid_for_debauchery(Big f****** D) — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:05:27 +0000

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Muslim compared to Hindu.

Humbling/humiliating indeed.

By: Madurai Vivekan

Madurai Vivekan — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:45:05 +0000

They have a whole slew of tests for India including preference tests for India-US, India-Pakistan, Hindu-Muslim.

Sorry if someone said that already.

By: Saheli

Saheli — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:47:04 +0000

"Your data suggest a slight association of African American with Harmless Objects and European American with Weapons compared to European American with Harmless Objects and African American with Weapons."

Um, yeah, maybe b/c like half the weapons looked like they were stolen off the set for Two Towers, and the other half off the set for Cold Mountain. ?!?

But honestly, I've encountered more weapons in the hands of white people than black people, so I guess that's not too surprising.

Also do ice cream (heart attack), nalgene bottles (bisphenol-A), and cell phones (bomb switches/brain tumors) really count as harmless objects?

By: Saheli

Saheli — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:28:54 +0000

Whoa.

I got little to no bias between dark and lightskinned people. I was totally cringingly prepared to get something worse.

But that test is freaking hard. I mean, if it was apples and oranges and up and down, I'd have been confused.

By: Al_Mujahid_for_debauchery(Big f****** D)

Al_Mujahid_for_debauchery(Big f****** D) — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:01:45 +0000

I am surprised!

By: Minnie (D)

Minnie (D) — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:42:35 +0000

Is it just me or is it intrinsically bugging that the Ethnicity category in the ‘Demographics’ section that is provided before taking any of the Implicit Association tests only allow for a brown person of South Asian origin to choose between “Asian or Pacific Islander” or “Other or Unknown”? I’m of Indian (not the kind that Columbus mistook for Indian) origin and hence I guess “brown” – another vaguely unsatisfactory category….

Technically, I should choose “Asian or Pacific Islander” by virtue of the Indian subcontinent being part of the Asian continent, but really, we all know that when the average American thinks of “Asian”, they think East Asia, not South Asian, just as in the UK, they think South Asian and not East Asian. Forgetting the Brits for the moment, am I the only one bugged that I was forced to choose “Other or Unknown”? That is certainly not a pleasant thing to do, considering we generally all like to have some sort of identity – I don’t know anyone who would actually choose to be an “other or unknown” when there are one billion of us on this planet…