Are You A Racist Test

[Connolly]

Here is a test which supposedly - somehow - decides what preference you have when it comes to "Race".

Take it, tell us what you got and think.



My result was:

""Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White People compared to Black People.""

I really cant understand this :blink: :huh:

I dont consider myself racist in the slightest. I do come from a primarily white country - but I would be "racially" arab.

I really am confused :mellow: as to how it concluded this. Its quite possible that subconsciously, coming from an overwhelmingly white background, it actually makes sense. I did make some errors.

Im pissed with this :angry:

Click HERE (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Instructions) for the test.

[Connolly]

Here is the description:

"Race ('Black - White' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to distinguish faces of European and African origin. It indicates that most people have an automatic preference for white over black."


If there are any "Black" members (sorry for using that word, I wouldnt usually at all" :( ) - could you tell us your score.

It would be interesting if that description goes for a "Black" persons preference for "Whites" aswell.

Or whether a person of a particular race has preference for "his/her own".

[More Fire for the People]

I usually get either no automatic preference or preference for Black people.

[Pirate Utopian]

Your Result
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for European American compared to African American.

bullshit!!!, this test was very confussing, it was more like i wasnt paying attention

[Fawkes]

I started it but I got bored. As far as I know, I'm not a racist.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

Your Result
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for African American compared to European American.

LOL.

[Kropotkin Has a Posse]

I got a slight automatic preference for white people, and I don't understand. This seems pretty unscientific to me.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

It's funny how it's all the closet racists complaining! :P

[Sand Castle]

"Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between White People and Black People."
When it asked who I prefer on a scale of 1 to 10 with 5 being neutral and 1 being bad (or something like that) I put down 4 for both races. I'm white by the way.

[Connolly]

Well at least you guys didnt get a "strong automatic bias".

Bloody hell, I feel like a right Nazi after that test :lol:

[Pirate Utopian]

this test confuses you and then when you get it wrong, it says your racist

[Connolly]

this test confuses you and then when you get it wrong, it says your racist

:lol: true!

[Luís Henrique]

It says that I have a slight preference for "Niffians" over "Laapians"...

:unsure:

Luís Henrique

[Kropotkin Has a Posse]

Yeah, I'd like to see the theoretical backing behind making people assign values to faces at high speed.

[RevMARKSman]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16, 2007 05:55 pm
"Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between White People and Black People."
When it asked who I prefer on a scale of 1 to 10 with 5 being neutral and 1 being bad (or something like that) I put down 4 for both races. I'm white by the way.
I put down 5 for both. And yeah, same score.

[Kropotkin Has a Posse]

I gave both a 7.

[Faceless]

Yeah, I'm pretty much a complete racist. If I had to nit-pick with this test, I would say that it was going to turn out like that because when they first introduced picking "white/bad" and "black/good" i was confused at what I was meant to be doing, whereas by the time I knew what was going on they had switched it to "white/good" and "black/bad".

[Prairie Fire]

I, unfortunately, came up with slight preferance of European-americans to African-Americans.

What can I say, I grew up in a white, back woods village in Alberta. If you never see a black person, you don't become used to them as nothing out of the ordinary.

[Vanguard1917]

This 'racist test' is based on the reasoning that racism has something to do with the 'e' and 'i' buttons on your keyboard. In reality, a person is a racist if they support the unequal social treatment of different races - something which 'tests' like these cannot determine.

Furthermore, such 'tests' encourage the idea that racism is somehow a psychological problem which can be solved through pychological and attitudinal treatment (race-awareness programs, diversity training schemes, etc. in workplaces and schools), rather than a social problem to be confronted through social action.

They also encourage the idea that racism is matter of the 'deep sub-conscious' of ordinary men and women (who need treatment), when, actually, racism is primarily a top-down phenomenon with very clear and definate social and historical causes.

[The Anarchist Prince]

Your Result
Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Light Skin and Dark Skin.

[Honggweilo]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17, 2007 03:21 am
I, unfortunately, came up with slight preferance of European-americans to African-Americans.

What can I say, I grew up in a white, back woods village in Alberta. If you never see a black person, you don't become used to them as nothing out of the ordinary.
I guess thats albertain chauvism (thinking about a specific song :P)

[Whitten]

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for European American compared to African American.

Strange, I wasnt aware I likes any Americans that much... j/k

But yea, not the best test ever.

[Vyru]

I ended up with:

Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between African American and European American.

Which I'm rather pleased with, because I am in no ways racist!

[Felicia]

it sort of makes sense, I mean, I can tell the difference between someone who's korean and someone who's japanese. it's not because of racism in the sense of hate, but the slight differences in facial structure. I'm gonna take the test now. post results when I'm done.

[Pirate Utopian]

i dont think that's racist you know the diffrence, i think it would be racist if you didnt because then you could see it as "all asians look alike"

[More Fire for the People]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16, 2007 09:21 pm
I, unfortunately, came up with slight preferance of European-americans to African-Americans.

What can I say, I grew up in a white, back woods village in Alberta. If you never see a black person, you don't become used to them as nothing out of the ordinary.
My town has a white majority and I still have an aesthetic preference for darker skin tones. This also has nothing to do with what is 'ordinary' but color-concept correlation.

[Felicia]

I don't agree with the idea behind the weight IAT, lol, not all 'fat' people have fat faces, I know this for sure, so faces can be misleading :P

I'm still takin the race test thingy.

[Felicia]

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


HAHAHHA, you know why? because they start off with Black and Bad on the left and Good and White on the right, then they mix them and put Bad with White and vice versa, they don't just switch sides, they switch them up, so your mind is focusing on the first associations and its hard to switch around.

[southernmissfan]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17, 2007 11:10 pm
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White People compared to Black People.


HAHAHHA, you know why? because they start off with Black and Bad on the left and Good and White on the right, then they mix them and put Bad with White and vice versa, they don't just switch sides, they switch them up, so your mind is focusing on the first associations and its hard to switch around.
Yeah, this is more of a reflex game than a legitimate test of someone's personal views. Whatever goes first is almost certainly what you're gonna have a preference for.

[EwokUtopia]

This hurt my brain. I was too busy sorting out which words are good and bad to go fast, so I got the whole "a prefference for either race could not be determined" thing.

[Connolly]

I got the whole "a prefference for either race could not be determined" thing.

:lol: Its fucking stupid isnt it.

I hope they have followed this link and see that a bunch antifascists have scored as racists :rolleyes:

[bcbm]

It doesn't say you're racist, it says you have an automatic preference for one group over another- that doesn't mean you dislike one group, or have anything against them.

[Question everything]

... seems like a stuoid test, I'm not even going to take it... I'm not racist and even if this test says you're racist it doesn't mean anything. sorry if I sound overly serious but I think tests like these are useless

[RedAnarchist]

Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between African American and European American.

[Ihavenoidea]

associating something with a face is counter productive.

[che's long lost daughter]

a slight automatic prefernece for black americans over white americans

[che's long lost daughter]

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for John F. Kennedy compared to George W. Bush. :D

[Ihavenoidea]

It said I have no preferance between the two... great.

[Lenin II]

My results say I have a strong preference for whites over blacks.

I don’t think this is meant to mean you are "racist" per se, I think that every human being is a little racist automatically. Human nature tells us to fear difference, and to be comforted by that which is familiar. Your cells remember.

[ComradeR]

Says i have no preference between European American and African American.

[float_613]

It said I have a moderate preference for people with darker skin tones.

I won't deny it, it's actually quite spot on.