Harvard's 'Are You A Bigot?!?!' Test
(implicit.harvard.edu)
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Aren’t these tests rigged to show that everyone is super racist? At least the ones I’ve seen
Basically, they use psychological tricks that have been common in marketing and commercials to create association biases. Even most black people get slight white bias on these because that’s how they’re designed. The original creators even admitted the thing was completely useless in determining actual biases it was just a “starting a conversation” tool…
The correct conversation of course
Implicit bias tests are a pseudoscience. This shouldn't surprise anyone who is metascientifically knowledgeable, because big, decades-long pseudoscientific lumps of shit like it are common in the "sciences". In fact, about two thirds of medicine, psychology, and many other fields are irreproducible trash. And, if that wasn't bad enough, that irreproducible trash is easy even for a layman to quickly identify, which means most of the scientists in these fields are either corrupt or braindead or some combination of the two.
That layman link is mind boggling. Thanks for posting.
I completely agree. It’s just ridiculous how seriously they are taken.
All "personality" type tests are designed to lead to the conclusion they want. We were taught back in like sophmore year of the undergrad how much effort you have to put in to dodge biases and self fulfillment, which probably 90% of the class failed at over and over and just passed regardless with a "now you know for the future!" message.
One of those lessons was to mislead the test taker on the purpose of the test, so avoid them figuring out what you are doing and then lying. Because if you think you'll look like a bad person, you'll give different answers.
Every one of these tests fail that very basic criteria, including basically every poll or political compass test. Especially as, none of these people are going to put in the aforementioned effort to avoid those problems because that would require a high mastery of the English language and a lot of redrafting after fake attempts.
No surprise at all.
they are trying to recreate the concept of original sin... that everyone is racist/sexist/*phobic, and that the only way to atone is to be subservient to them and their demands.
It told me I have a small tendency to have an automatic bias for john f Kennedy over biden.
i'm like, well DUH>
The current senator of president?