If a test is not repeatable, it has no predictive value. It seems someone is urging you to keep throwing the dice until you get the score they want. Then, for some arbitrary reason, only that score is "meaningful", not any of the discarded scores. Such a measurement is not test based, it based on what another views as "meaningful" rather than observations that are grounded in reality.Why? That doesnt make sense. You should only take the test once to get a true indication of what you feel.Take the test againTake the test againImplicit Bias
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What it is:
Thoughts and feelings are âimplicitâ if we are unaware of them or mistaken about their nature. We have a bias when, rather than being neutral, we have a preference for (or aversion to) a person or group of people. Thus, we use the term âimplicit biasâ to describe when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge. A fairly commonplace example of this is seen in studies that show that white people will frequently associate criminality with black people without even realizing theyâre doing it.
Why it matters:
The mind sciences have found that most of our actions occur without our conscious thoughts, allowing us to function in our extraordinarily complex world. This means, however, that our implicit biases often predict how weâll behave more accurately than our conscious values. Multiple studies have also found that those with higher implicit bias levels against black people are more likely to categorize non-weapons as weapons (such as a phone for a gun, or a comb for a knife), and in computer simulations are more likely to shoot an unarmed person. Similarly, white physicians who implicitly associated black patients with being âless cooperativeâ were less likely to refer black patients with acute coronary symptoms for thrombolysis for specific medical care.
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Why should she? Stating the truth about white racism is not bias.
All this test measures is differences in reaction times, and if those reaction-times differences havenât been proven to predict real-world behavior, it doesnât make sense to tag someone with a high IAT score as âimplicitly biased.â
Over and over it was prematurely implied that there was a connection between IAT scores and real-world outcomes. Countless media outlets all echoed the idea that the IAT measured something that had implications for real-world manifestations of prejudice and discrimination.
Greenwald and Banaji had found around the turn of the millennium were certain predictable patterns in how quickly different sorts of people responded to different sorts of stimuli. Majority groups tended to score higher than minority groups on the IAT, for example. Thatâs interesting, but there has been little establishing any solid, real-world connection between these scores and any observable marker of discriminatory behavior.
IATâs most impressive claims do no rest on sound empirical footing. Many people, particularly members of the public not up on the latest literature, remain ignorant of this.
There have always been alternate potential explanations for what the IAT really measures. From early on, skeptics of Greenwald and Banajiâs claims have highlighted the possibility that the test doesnât really, or doesnât only, capture implicit bias; in 2004, for example, Hal Arkes and Tetlock published a paper entitled âWould Jesse Jackson âFailâ the Implicit Association Test?â in which they argued that it could be the case that people who are more familiar with certain stereotypes score higher on the IAT, whether or not they unconsciously endorse those stereotypes in any meaningful way. Along those same lines, some researchers have suggested that it could be the case that those who empathize with out-group members, and are therefore well aware of the negative treatment and stereotypes they are victimized by, have an easier time forming the quick negative associations with minority groups that the IAT interprets as implicit bias against those groups.
Psychologyâs Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isnât Up to the Job