Pardon my French, you are aware that it doesn't matter because it explains the entire test to you in detail and even tells you which words it will be using, and since you can take it 100 times and still get the same result, even if you are trying to change your result, your argument is null and void.

The most interesting part of the test to me is the first part where you just place black and white people in the proper column of if they are black and white, almost everyone fucks up but they only fuck up by placing the more attractive black dudes into the white dude's column, and never put the white dudes into the black dudes column, unless you're going to claim that humans are more biased to press the E key for black dudes than white dudes or some shit.

Don't criticize this test which tests IMPLICIT racism, unconscious AUTOMATIC perceptions. FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

The test doesn't mean you'll go out beating up or degrading or even discriminating against black people, it just means that you ASSOCIATE them with worse things.

I mean these tests are legit, just like how 6'2 and taller people make up literally something like 90% of all major corporate CEO's in the entire country. That's what it's testing. The corporate chairman aren't consciously going "Well he's 6'2" so we'll choose him over the equally qualified 5'6" guy" but because of their automatic perceptions, the end up picking the 6'2" guy over the short dude.

Post edited at 10:49 pm on May 16, 2008 by medjai

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that's all it is

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Exactly and my (I take full credit for this test which I had nothing to do with cus I found it) racist exam proves it.

At least the guys that are openly racist are not being hypocrites god knows they'll score white biased but they aren't standing around claiming they don't associate black people with bad things and white people with good things, I mean almost everyone does, even black people.

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I haven't taken it yet, but does it also have a category for "black racist" or "asian racist", if not, I do not see how one could consider it a valid test.

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I ex'd out, do you know how to retrieve my results, or did I lose them.

I think it also said that I had a slight preference for democrats over republicans, which is a bit odd since I consider myself republican... hmm.

I didn't get a chance to read the last one, i wish i could see my results again.


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my argument isn't null and void because the test conditions you to respond one way or another and then when you take longer because you're trying to reverse the conditioning, it calls you a racist

that's all it is

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The test doesn't condition you in any manner significant enough to change your score, the order in which the categories appear is irrelevant. If the test really did condition your answers, you would not be able to change your score by reading materials which made black people look heroic and kind and white people look bad and mean (and by watching movies or experiencing this in real life). Your years and years of experience and social conditioning are what determine the results of this test. The first part just asks you to identify if the guy is black or white, and that by itself has telling results. Just because you don't want to admit that your brain is socially conditioned in a racist way doesn't mean it isn't.

More importantly though, the way the test goes is.

You identify whites to the left and blacks to the right, then bad to the LEFT and good to the right, and so the initial "conditioning" of the test that you claim would actually lean towards giving a black preference the advantage. Then after that it gives you "European or Bad" and "African American or Good".

Where is the prior conditioning to make you take longer to put good categories in the black people's spot?

Additionally, when the conditions are reversed AFTER the "black - good" "white - bad" to "white - good" "black - bad" people suddenly get all the categories correct, despite the conditions having just been reversed. Go read Blink, which talks about this in depth, there have been plenty of studies on this test.

In other words, despite the conditions being reversed (your argument) people actually complete the second part with "white - good" "black - bad" in a faster time and more accurately than they do with the initial conditions, and your argument is null and void as I said earlier.

Event Horizon, just take the test again as it's extraordinarily likely that you'll get the same results.

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Which comes as absolutely no surprise. Possibly as a result of me having twitchy fingers, but probably not...I've never considered myself racist in any way. What's the point?

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I actually believe exceedinglyrare. The rest of you are racists though.

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I'm flattered :)

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I actually believe exceedinglyrare. The rest of you are racists though.

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Hey, I was man enough to admit it. I know I have a preference.

FP

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