An interesting Psych test from Harvard...

[CJ Tylers]

http://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/index.html

I took it and the results were interesting, though hardly suprising in my case...my results were little to no automatic preference to either category...

 

[CJ Tylers]

It's testing what sort of automatic associations you have. The higher the incorrect to correct answer ratio, the more parallels that can be drawn to your thought patterning.

Some people associate european with good, african america with bad... this would show up in a high incorrect answer score. For people that associate black (afro american) with good, and white (european) with bad, the same incorrect score ratio (but in reverse) would develope.

If you don't have much in the way of incorrect answers, of if they are random in nature (I know I said OOPS a few times), then you most likely don't associate good and bad with either racial prototype.

Basically, it tests your levels of racial discrimination

 

[TotallyTouchin]

Darn it!

According to this test I need to join to KKK.

OK CLM...we're not friends anymore. Just to let you know. Unless you start bleaching your skin or something

 

[SethBrundle]

It's testing what sort of automatic associations you have. The higher the incorrect to correct answer ratio, the more parallels that can be drawn to your thought patterning.

Some people associate european with good, african america with bad... this would show up in a high incorrect answer score. For people that associate black (afro american) with good, and white (european) with bad, the same incorrect score ratio (but in reverse) would develope.

If you don't have much in the way of incorrect answers, of if they are random in nature (I know I said OOPS a few times), then you most likely don't associate good and bad with either racial prototype.

Basically, it tests your levels of racial discrimination

Correct, but it also takes time into account. I got no answers incorrect but I assume I took me a bit longer to answer when presented with Black-Good and White-Bad then i did answering Black-Bad and White-Good; which resulted in moderate automatic preference towards whites.

 

[CJ Tylers]

It is also a very regional test. Over in this part of the world, we have a very small black population. Change/incorporate other ethnic groups and you might see the results change.

Native
Middle Eastern
Caucasian
Asian

These are the major races in Vancouver that oft come into conflict, or have conflict associated with them. I'd wager most Vancouverites would come out as "little to no bias" with blacks/whites, but there would be perhaps significant bias towards some of the above groups.

Just a thought...and another flaw... about/of the test...

 

[jjinvan]

An issue with a test such as this is that one will have created a pattern via route thinking. Since White/Good and Black/Bad is the first pattern, it follows that unless one forces ones self to circumvent the route pattern created, there will be a tendency to set a connection and correlation between the first route pattern. This is one reason as to why the Rorschach proves a weak validity as the patterns continue. Firstly there must be a pattern of some sort to form a coherent internalized response. As the patterns continue, there is a cause <--> effect carry-over. Thus this test and the Rorschach are not diagnostic tests and this one gives a diagnostic result. I will not move into the sociological aspects that will invalidate different cultures for interpretive pathological diagnosis since CJ has already made this point.

There are many flaws to such a test as this and the yielding of results as they do is simply erroneous.

Wow, you spent all that time typing all those big words just so you could agree with me...

 

[Creole Lady Marmalade]

According to this test I need to join to KKK.

OK CLM...we're not friends anymore. Just to let you know. Unless you start bleaching your skin or something

Yup! I'll get all Micheal Jackson'd on you, biatch.

 

[jjinvan]

You explained nothing in your post. You said flaw and did not explain whatsoever what that flaw was and how it reacted within the distributed results. You continued to say nothing but flaw and then ended with the proposal of "Bad Research".

Thus, you gave absolutely no information in your post other than to say there was a flaw. There are many flaws in that testing of which CJ stated one and I stated another. I could give quite a few more and since you gave none, there was no agreement other than that the test is flawed.

If that is how you see agreement in discussion, then you seriously lack an ability to explain your reasoning as to the flaw you meant. The most one could say about your post in relation to CJ's post and my post is that an agreement in principle, that principle being a flawed testing ground was achieved. You gave nothing else.

Those who read my post will see the information. When they read your post, they will see that you gave no information and only mentioned the test was flawed.

All tests have flaws, some are fundamental, some are not. You stated nothing really.

To put it bluntly. I learned nothing from your post Jjinvan. Others very likely learned something from CJ's post and mine though.

I said that it was spelled out in the Q&A, right there at the top.

I should have linked it

 

[CJ Tylers]

CLM... careful there, according to 9 out of 10 wonderland ranch boys, Michael Jackson is a touchy subject.

I think they should do a celebrity version of this test... after all, being a celebrity knows no nationality... and you'd quickly find out which celebs people equate with immoral, evil, pain, punishment, paris hilton, anger, violence, briteny spears, ghonorhea, us foreign policy... you know, all the bad stuff...

Correct, but it also takes time into account. I got no answers incorrect but I assume I took me a bit longer to answer when presented with Black-Good and White-Bad then i did answering Black-Bad and White-Good; which resulted in moderate automatic preference towards whites.

It takes time into account because it is scoring your automatic response to the presented stimulus. If you take time to decipher the image and allocate it to the correct (or seamingly) category, then you are skewing the results.