I've offered this up before and, to my knowledge, IM2 nor anyone else has dared take the test for racism. I do not wish for anyone to post their results if, indeed, they take the test. In my opinion, anyone could edit the results to show them in a better light than the test actually reveals.
It’s NATURAL to discriminate and be prejudiced; almost exclusively we all grew up with people like very much like ourselves. It is natural to trust those people more than people who are not like us. Obviously, we also pick up racist attitudes and beliefs from our parents too. We discriminate and use prejudice every day. There is nothing wrong with those feelings. It is what we learn and what is in someone’s heart, and what we DO with those feelings that matters.
If you are curious about yourself, take this test. The test does NOT use questions, which you could answer the way you THINK you should. Actually, it is fun. You can chose from a number of different tests but they only take about 15 minutes.
This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test or IAT for short.
WARNING!
It does carry this disclaimer:
I am aware of the possibility of encountering interpretations of my IAT test performance with which I may not agree. Knowing this, I wish to proceed.
Project Implicit
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
This 20+ years old test is supposed to reveal to test-takers a deep, dark secret about who they are: They may not feel racist, but in fact, the test shows that in a variety of intergroup settings, they will
act racist. This notion, and the data surrounding it, have fed into a very neat narrative explaining bias and racial justice in modern America. Sure,
explicit measures of racism have been in decline for a while in the United States. It’s less socially acceptable than ever to say that black people and white people shouldn’t get married, or that black people are less intelligent than white people (though, to be sure, a solid minority of Americans still endorses such views). And yet, more than a half-century after the end of Jim Crow, all sorts of racial discrepancies persist: On average, darker-skinned people have less access to solid education, housing, and health care than lighter-skinned ones, and face various other forms of discrimination. The test suggests that, having addressed many of the most outrageous and explicit forms of public discrimination, our progress toward genuine racial equality may be continually stalled or undone by implicit bias.
This test's proponents argue that if people who don’t
feel like they discriminate do, in fact, discriminate, that this explains the disparate outcomes. White cops who claim racial empathy are still more likely to pull the trigger in an ambiguous situation involving a black suspect than a white one. White real-estate agents who are proud Obama voters conjure up thin excuses that
feel legitimate to them to avoid renting nice units to black families. The test co-creators of the test
have written,
“given the relatively small proportion of people who are overtly prejudiced and how clearly it is established that automatic race preference as measured by the test predicts discrimination, it is reasonable to conclude not only that implicit bias is a cause of Black disadvantage but also that it plausibly plays a greater role than does explicit bias in explaining the discrimination that contributes to Black disadvantage.”
They claim that 90–95 percent of Americans harbored the “roots of unconscious prejudice.” The test has been mostly treated as a revolutionary, revelatory piece of technology, garnering overwhelmingly positive media coverage.
Unfortunately, a growing pile of scholarly work, some of it published in top psychology journals and most of it ignored by the media, suggests that the test falls far short of the quality-control standards normally expected of psychological instruments. The test is a noisy, unreliable measure that correlates far too weakly with any real-world outcomes to be used to predict individuals’ behavior — even the test’s creators have now admitted as such. The history of the test suggests it was released to the public and excitedly publicized long before it had been fully validated in the rigorous, careful way normally demanded by the field of psychology. In fact, there’s a case to be made that Harvard shouldn’t be administering the test in its current form, in light of its shortcomings and its potential to mislead people about their own biases. There’s also a case to be made that the test went viral not for solid scientific reasons, but simply because it tells us such a simple, pat story about how racism works and can be fixed: that deep down, we’re all a little — or a lot — racist, and that if we measure and study this individual-level racism enough, progress toward equality will ensue.
Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job