The Implicit Association Test

I saw a piece on Oprah recently about a test that was developed at Harvard. The test uses quick, rapid fire responses to visual stimuli to gauge your preferences for black and white people. It sounded interesting, so I looked it up and took it. Here is the result.

Thank you for your participation.

In this study, we are investigating conscious and unconscious preferences with regard to black and white people. Your result on the Implicit Association Test is reported immediately below:

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

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It goes on in more detail related to the questions asked, but that's the basic result. Hopefully a modest preference for your own race is to be expected. Another interesting result is that I rated black males higher than white males. Interesting. To take the test yourself follow this link. If you have problems with the link the url is https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=-1