Race Test

[Jersey Devil]

Indeed. Select the "race test" and take it.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/uk/selectatest.html


Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White People relative to Black People

[bed_of_nails]

I have a moderate preference for white people it says.

This is complete rubbish, I became used to thinking "Good-Left. Bad-Right" and when they flipped everything around, I became rather confused.

[LSD]

We're all racist.

[Hampton]

Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for Black People relative to White People

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/58046/2/black_an_white_hand_2.jpg


http://www.precisionwebsurveys.com/images/thumbs-up.jpg

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Apparently I preffer young people, straight people, black people, and believe that males are better at science and females are better at liberal arts.
Bullshit.
Although I do marginally preffer young people for the obvious reason that I can relate.

[NovelGentry]

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Black People relative to White People

First run through (before it switch black or good with white or good) I thought it was trying to say black people were bad :(

[bed_of_nails]

Hahahaha that would have been hilarious. I was wondering what they would do for word association, I was expecting racial epitets.

[Jersey Devil]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2005, 12:51 AM
I have a moderate preference for white people it says.

This is complete rubbish, I became used to thinking "Good-Left. Bad-Right" and when they flipped everything around, I became rather confused.
Indeed, I believe I had the same problem. I will say though that I believe mine came out to some extent to be true. Not that I "hate" blacks but rather that I grew up in a neighborhood that was predominatly black and was crime infested and later lived in a predominatly white neighborhood that was not crime infested and thus that may have clouded my judgment.

[RedAnarchist]

I'm white, but i apparently have a slight automatic preference to black people relative to white people. :)

[NovelGentry]

I'm white, but i apparently have a slight automatic preference to black people relative to white people.

Slight? I'm white and I have a moderate one.... KILL WHITEY!

[Wolnosc-Solidarnosc]

Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for White People relative to Black People

[guerillablack]

I dont think that's accurate. It just one was just real difficult and confusing. Like especially old people/young. It seemd young was easy but old was hard lol.

[Jersey Devil]

Here is a BBC article regarding this test.



I don't think you should look at the article before taking the test.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4447471.stm

Are you a racist? The test that claims to know
By Lucy Wilkins
BBC News



Can a five-minute online test tell whether you are racist or not? In the US, two million people have taken one and now a UK version is available.

Racism is a reality encountered every day in Britain, but how many people actually consider themselves racist?

It's difficult to be sure because people's true feelings are inevitably concealed by their politeness. So much so that those who harbour prejudice sometimes cannot admit it even to themselves.

But a five-minute online test (see Internet links, right), devised by American academics and newly launched in Britain, promises to strip away the veneer of respectability many people hold on to, and plunder the prejudices we harbour in the unconscious. The result - a truer picture of one's attitudes.

At least, that's the claim of those who drew up the Implicit Association Test. It works like this:


Users put positive and negative words, such as "failure", "glorious", "wonderful" and "nasty" into categories of "good" and "bad", then do the same with images of black and white faces.
By responding to the prompts as quickly as possible, the test aims to side-step what's known as "cognitive control" - the brief, but significant, time lapse we need to give an "acceptable" answer rather than a truly honest one.
Depending on the magnitude of the result, respondents are judged to have either "little or no bias" or a bias rated as "slight", "moderate" or "strong".
The model can be applied far wider than race, detecting innate preferences for straight people over gay, thin over fat, even Harry Potter over Lord of the Rings.

But in the US its application as a test for racism has proved most controversial. Now the academics behind it have tailored a version for the UK, which juxtaposes good and bad words with white British names and Asian British names.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41038000/jpg/_41038927_pair_203.jpg
Most people have a preference for white faces rather than black, researchers say

The test is being is used to promote the London stage debut of A Patch of Blue, a classic American film of the 1960s about a blind white woman who falls in love with a black man.

About 25,000 people in the UK have completed the test, since it launched here six months ago. Like Professor Brian Nosek, many have found it suggests uncomfortable truths about themselves.

"I did the race test, and despite my egalitarian views and belief that I treated everybody equally, I had a much harder time putting the black faces with good than putting the white faces with good," says Prof Nosek, of the University of Virginia.

"That fact was so stunning that I began to wonder if I was lying to myself, was I lying to others? It was a humbling experience, and motivated me to assess my own attitudes."

With fellow psychologists Tony Greenwald from the University of Washington and Mahzarin Banaji at Harvard University, he developed the tests and put them online in 1998. Since then some two million people have taken them.

"People have engaged with it, whether they agree with it or not. It's starting conversation about the implications of their beliefs," says Prof Nosek. "We're giving people a sense that there may be a bias and giving them the chance to debate it."

"It certainly gave me pause to think about why I have reactions to people, the cause of which was not immediately obvious."

Warning to participants

The UK site is one of five international sites, with South Africa, Australia, Canada and India.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41055000/jpg/_41055249_key203.jpg
The test relies on quick reactions by those taking part

The Project Implicit website warns participants before they begin that they might not agree with the outcome: "If you are unprepared to encounter interpretations that you might find objectionable, please do not proceed further."

Katy - not her real name - who is 23 and lives in London, says it provoked some difficult questions.

"I never classified myself as having any racist feelings. I've always though I was liberal and open-minded. But the test told me I had a moderate bias in favour of white Britons," she says.

"At first I thought it was wrong, but then I began to think it could be telling me something about myself I don't want to admit to. It's quite depressing."

But not everyone is convinced. Some critics argue it has more to do with hand-eye co-ordination and manual dexterity than unearthing deep-seated prejudices. Clinical psychologist Nick Banks says psychometric tests - tests that measure personality - need a validity stamp to show they have been tested.

"I don't see it on this test and I suspect they're trialling it on the internet to get the verification."

Death threats

He calls the test "crude" for dividing opinions into "good" and "bad". "It's called dichotomous thinking. Most things in life are more complicated. Good tests allow you to grade your response on a scale of one to five or more," says Dr Banks.

"It depends what this test is for. If it's there to provoke debate about racism, that's ok. But if it's going to be used in a selection process for a job, then it's too blunt."

Others have taken greater offence, says Prof Nosek, with some going so far as to send death threats to him and his colleagues.

"But that scepticism is also important. Science needs to be put to the test, and not just by people, but by scientists as well," he says.

He said there are about 200 virtual labs around the world which are using similar online tools for studying.

"We see this research as becoming part of a general way that psychologists try to find out what is really in people's minds."

[red_orchestra]

The test is bullshit... you can't define the human psyche in a 5 minute test...i

[cormacobear]

The test is influenced far more by media, and enviornment, than by oppinion.

Afterall it would be harder for me, haveing grown up in a community of 50,000, with only two black families, than someone who had grown up knowing many. Still it's a fun test, has anyone tried just hitting the keys with their eyes closed yet. Hmmm I wonder. :lol:

Apperantly I strongly prefer white people, and don't dislike gay people as much as I thought. Apperantly I only slightly prefer straight people. :huh:

[More Fire for the People]

I couldn't finsih the test... I was so appalled that I had to associate people of another ethnic background with evil that I just closed the tab.

Disgusting test.

[Aryan theme]

Originally posted by Jersey [email protected] 20 2005, 09:26 PM
Indeed. Select the "race test" and take it.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/uk/selectatest.html


Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White People relative to Black People
I am very impressed with that test. Very nice indeed.

[Invader Zim]

That test was daft. At first you are obviously going to be slower than later. Speed is one of the elements of the test, which decieds your supposed view, etc. I was going much faster towards the end.

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

Originally posted by Aryan theme+Apr 23 2005, 07:41 PM--> (Aryan theme @ Apr 23 2005, 07:41 PM)
Jersey [email protected] 20 2005, 09:26 PM
Indeed. Select the "race test" and take it.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/uk/selectatest.html


Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White People relative to Black People
I am very impressed with that test. Very nice indeed. [/b]
Shut up poser. I bet you aren't even truely "Aryan".

[1936]

Were all naturally racist, its just fact that humans on some subconcious level will discriminate other ethnic cultures, i can admit that im afraid to find some times im thinking racist thoughts but its normal. What makes you scum is to act on your discrimanotory nature, which i dont, in any way, atall.

[Xvall]

Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for White People relative to Black People

The test was mostly stupid. I ended up being more confused when they switched things around. Throughout the test, it was playing more like some type of reaction test to me, and I wasn't actually concentrating on the ethnicities of the people in the pictures.

The reason that they claim that people prefer white faces to black faces probably has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with the fact that the majority of the people taking these tests live in countries where the majority of citizens are of caucasian decent. With that in mind, they are most likely responding to what they see most commonly. If they made another test that instead distinguished between jewish symbols and christian symbols, people would probably have a "prefrence" for the christian symbols, not necessarily because they prefer christianity to judaism, but because there are fare more elements of chirstianity in their existing society then there are of judaism.

[RedAnarchist]

But the city i live in is like 90% white, yet i have a slight preference for black people. Unless its just random what you get?

[Frederick_Engles]

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White People relative to Black People
how...odd.

[Totalitarian Militant]

What kind of pathetic self concious person needs an internet test to show you how you are!?

[bed_of_nails]

There is always a point one must self-observe and ask oneself if he/she is truly what he/she believes. A test on the internet has no real gravitas, but is always an interesting tool for self-observation.

[Colombia]

I prefered white people. Strange seeing that I lived in a town were the majority of people were Latino or Black.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by The World's 1st [email protected] 23 2005, 03:27 PM
Were all naturally racist, its just fact that humans on some subconcious level will discriminate other ethnic cultures, i can admit that im afraid to find some times im thinking racist thoughts but its normal. What makes you scum is to act on your discrimanotory nature, which i dont, in any way, atall.
I've heard that before, and I think it's total shit.
If anything, it's something subconscious. From early childhood, folks observe the fact that in western society, people of different races and ethnicities keep to themselves, which is probably a major cause of subconscious racism. As well as other things.

I think I did better with black faces as opposed to white faces is because, as Enigma said, as the test progressed, I got faster and faster at answering.

[bed_of_nails]

No, RedZep, we simply know you hate the white man.

[1936]

Were all naturally racist, its just fact that humans on some subconcious

Total shit apparently....




If anything, it's something subconscious

Not total shit....

[KrazyRabidSheep]

"Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Black People relative to White People"
I think it was flawed, tho. . .no, I think I was flawed
I kept putting stuff in the wrong categories because they switched it. . .I'm sure that messed up my score
then again, perhaps I hate white people because they've fucked the world over so many more times then anyone else. . .the other tests went smoother

"Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Young relative to Old"
I know that. . .old people are icky (I hope I die before I get old -The Who)

"Your data suggest little or no association between science and Male relative to Female"

"Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for United Kingdom relative to United States" too bad there wasn't an "other" category

"Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for STRAIGHT PEOPLE relative to GAY PEOPLE"

"Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for THIN PEOPLE relative to FAT PEOPLE"

"Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for White British relative to Asian British"


What kind of pathetic self concious person needs an internet test to show you how you are!?
I did it (mostly) to help with the research. Even if it's not a perfect test (it's not) the more people that participate, the more acurate it may be.
Sounds to me like you are afraid to take it. . .prove something you already know, perhaps?

One last note:
In my opinion, these tests don't do justice to prejudices. Somebody who much prefers white to black in the test is not racist if they put forth an effort. It's more impressive for somebody to conciously attempt to change their attitudes to be more fair then somebody who was raised (reletively) unbiased in the first place.

It shows awareness of one's flaws.
It shows willingness and determination to change and better oneself

[t_wolves_fan]

Originally posted by RedZeppelin+Apr 30 2005, 04:52 AM--> (RedZeppelin @ Apr 30 2005, 04:52 AM)
The World's 1st [email protected] 23 2005, 03:27 PM
Were all naturally racist, its just fact that humans on some subconcious level will discriminate other ethnic cultures, i can admit that im afraid to find some times im thinking racist thoughts but its normal. What makes you scum is to act on your discrimanotory nature, which i dont, in any way, atall.
I've heard that before, and I think it's total shit.
If anything, it's something subconscious. From early childhood, folks observe the fact that in western society, people of different races and ethnicities keep to themselves, which is probably a major cause of subconscious racism. As well as other things.

I think I did better with black faces as opposed to white faces is because, as Enigma said, as the test progressed, I got faster and faster at answering. [/b]
Yes, this only happens in Western societies.

:rolleyes:

[Jersey Devil]

I have to diagree with you there t-wolves fan. It's not as if there is a genocide in some place in Africa right now between Arabs and black Africans. Racism only happens in Western society.

[Taiga]

What a stupid test. :blink:
Is it really scientific?

[t_wolves_fan]

Originally posted by Jersey [email protected] 4 2005, 01:20 PM
I have to diagree with you there t-wolves fan. It's not as if there is a genocide in some place in Africa right now between Arabs and black Africans. Racism only happens in Western society.
Sarcastic again, right?

:P

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

"Naturually Racist"?? Sounds absurd to me.

Your data suggest little or no automatic preference for White People relative to Black People

[Clarksist]

That test is basically trying to get you confused. I have a slight preference for whites... at least thats what it says. But in life I find myself most comfortable away from most white people and I'm irish.

[Publius]

The test was asinine.

I was used to using the 'e' and 'i' keys for one thing, then it switches on me.

It confused me, because my instinct was to do what was already done.

If they would reverse the order it would show the exact opposite results, guranteed.

[Raisa]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2005, 08:27 PM
Were all naturally racist, its just fact that humans on some subconcious level will discriminate other ethnic cultures, i can admit that im afraid to find some times im thinking racist thoughts but its normal. What makes you scum is to act on your discrimanotory nature, which i dont, in any way, atall.
Pah, bullshit.

Skin is the first thing you see when you look at someone.
You notice it.

It is when you steriotype people by their skin color and pre-judge them by it that it becomes racist, because you are seeing the world through race first.

[Raisa]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2005, 03:54 AM
I prefered white people. Strange seeing that I lived in a town were the majority of people were Latino or Black.
hehehehehehe....somebodys just got a craving for some ice cream then, dont they! ;)

:lol:


This test is funny. How someone can have a "preference" for a race of people, like you are picking them out at the store or something.

I think I got a sick sense of humor. :(

[Commie Girl]

:huh: Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for White People relative to Black People

[codyvo]

I had a moderate preference to black people, and I'm white,and although that is true I don't think a test like that can be accurate. My answer doesn't surprise me, before I came to a school with no black kids, all my friends were black.