I had heard of the Implicit Association Tests but until recently I wasn't aware that you could take some online.

Mosey on over to https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/ and take one of the tests. They take about five minutes. I'm not going to go into too much of what they are now, but I encourage you to take one of the tests. It'll start to dawn on you how unsettling it is.

Bah, not unsettling at all. I can change the results of that in a heart beat by altering the initial presentation of the information. While biast, concious or otherwise may play A factor - humans are creatures of habit. It was all in the presentation...but I imagine good ole Al and company will have their data now.

After about three or four times they turn it into pure confusion by mixing the categories....I don't see what the point is from there on, except to test your short term MEMORY ability.

Not too sure what this is all about. I did the young/old test, onbly made 2 mistakes (same old face classed as young) then when it finished I got a server error.

What was going on? is it just to see if my subconcious upholds my concious beliefs?

It looks more like a simple pattern recognition/cognative understanding test, similar to an IQ test or Dyslexia test, so I guess I scored well.

The link didn't work for me. Is the test over?

No. There will be a pop quiz tomorrow.

I think the way the test is designed is biased from the point of view that you get better at hitting the I and e buttons as the test progresses almost like learning the controls on a TV game. That naturally faovrs the second part of the test.

My mind started to hurt towards the end of some of those tests...

I did the presidential test. At the end I was told I had a what was it, basically was more comfortable with George W. Bush than with Lincoln.

It said the reason was I was hitting the GW/Good key faster than I hit the Lincoln/Good key.

Here's the problem...

The Lincoln/Good key was in the first round of mix ups. So naturally I was moving more slowly to make sure I didn't screw up.

By the time the GW/Good mix came up, I recognized that all of the pictures and words were the same. They were not changing. This enabled me to sort faster in the later rounds.

Had the order of operations been reveresed, I clearly would've shown more bias towards Lincoln.

So to that end, abc is correct. Just like a video game, the longer you hit the i/e buttons, the faster you'll get, thus favoring the second part of the test.

That means not only can your results be predicted, but actually planned for.

And now to quote acmp - I'm not sure what the point was.

-Robert

If the study finds on the side of controversy and is cited by a professor or dean - will they get fired?

I felt like I was trying to play fizbin and wondering what day it was. Or was it the flagon with the dragon that holds the brew which is true and so I should press the "e" key ...

The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon. The vessel with the pestle holds the brew that is true.

Jack Shalom