Are You Racist?

This is for discussion about the Race IAT test at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html . If you're interested in other tests there (you probably will be) please make a different topic for its discussion.

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

I recommend reading The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men at http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/science-of-racism-prejudice .

This is interesting. I'll check it out.

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Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American.
If your score was described as 'inconclusive,' then your performance was not within the range to provide an interpretable result. Most inconclusive results are due to a high number of errors.

Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic associations may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'. How implicit associations affect our judgments and behaviors is not well understood and may be influenced by a number of variables. As such, the score should serve as an opportunity for self-reflection, not as a definitive assessment of your implicit thoughts or feelings. This and future research will clarify the way in which implicit thinking and feelings affects our perception, judgment, and action.

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....the definition of racism is

The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races: theories of racism

1.1Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior: a programme to combat racism

The test you've linked doesn't actually test for racism, it tests for preference, which is not the same as racism. One may prefer their own race appearance wise, but that doesn't mean that they would treat them differently, nor that they find another race inferior and theirs superior. The truth is in behaviour..

Edan, did you take the test?

Connor L. wrote: Edan, did you take the test?

Yes...

Edit: The result was 'slight automatic preference' if anyone was wondering.

Ok.

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

EDIT: While I would have liked to have gotten no automatic preference, I'm glad I got this.

Edan is partially right, it measures preference, but in assessing preferences and attitudes about race one can derive whether or not a prejudice exists. I would further add that that definition of racism is inadequate because it does not specify that racism is systemic and upholds a certain social and political worldview in which white people maintain dominance.

Jamie Stick wrote:

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

EDIT: While I would have liked to have gotten no automatic preference, I'm glad I got this.

Edan is partially right, it measures preference, but in assessing preferences and attitudes about race one can derive whether or not a prejudice exists. I would further add that that definition of racism is inadequate because it does not specify that racism is systemic and upholds a certain social and political worldview in which white people maintain dominance.

Yes... although racism is not restricted to white people only.

Interesting self reflection but I wouldn't add too much value to it. IMHO

I'm going to share this documentary I watched as a part of my internship which sought, among other things, to reveal the nature of racism.


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