Are you racist? Let Harvard University tell you!

At this site.

apprently I'm not

This is also an awesome "Are you patient enough to finish an Internet quiz that never ends?" test.

I failed.

Me, too.

yep.

I think it's neat.

I think that... That bizare test is racist, but I am not.

And youz guyz must have ADD, it only took 3 minutes.

W/o being obnoxious, I think the FAQ on the site is important to look at. The IAT test doesn't prove you're a "racist" - it's about getting at implicit attitudes on race. So, actually being a bigot is a bit more complex (and more about your own agency) that merely have a tendency to favor European Americans. The test is trying to get at a particular sector of our thinking that prolly *does* impact the world, and that's origin is not entirely any one person's fault (re: it's about absorbing all kinds of cultural debris across your lifetime).

What if I'm just easily confused when things get all switched around on me? That's why I don't rearrange my furniture, man. This test is no fair.

I am disappointed with my results.

"Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American."

Did you read the FAQs at the end and retake the test?

I received
1 - "stop hitting the 'r' key it is 'e' and 'i' keys only you idiot
2 - "Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American."
I lied about the first.

"Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American."

Regardless, I'm going to go ahead and say that this is fundamentally flawed.

It's the way they "switch" the criteria. They're setting you up for a "strong preference for whites". If the switch was opposite, I guarantee the predominant "preference" would be for blacks.

I call bullshit...

And I'll agree with that. It's more a test of left/right than black/white

Likewise on both counts. I won't argue the answer in and of itself, but I think the result was more based on that I am a very good cognitive test taker.

Same notion as the Stroop Test. The key is dissociation.

My thoughts exactly. I kept getting confused, not because of the words and pictures. I was having trouble with my left and right.

apparently...I'm racist.

Also...there are only two races.

and latin american looks suspiciously like european american.

one thing I've learned traveling around the world is that the more you try to place certain looks into a "group" the harder it is to distinguish between groups. For instance, when I lived in Mexico, I swore I saw faces that looked Russian, Arab, Chinese, etc... it just goes to disprove the myth of the races...

There's also simply a limit to what every test can get at; further, in the American setting, the white/black dichotomy is undeniably the most salient. But really, I'm sure if you asked the people who *made* the test - they'd admit that the black/white only comparison is a problem. But no research system can get at *every* nuance of a question - that's what follow up research is for.

Spain is in Europe...racist!

same here. Plus, i kept saying all the "bad" things were good.

to a point, but there are also certain distinct features of certain people living in certain parts of the world.
for example, polish girls living in poland tend to have a "look". this is due to the fact that in certain parts of the world people didn't really intermingle nor really move around at all. the stayed in the same ethnic groups, living in the same area for thousands of years, people tend to look certain ways.

so I dunno if it's so much a myth, as much as a vague sort of generalization that as the years go on and people become more mobile, tends to bear less and less relevance.

well sort of.
I know a lot of europeans that would deny that fact.

RACIST!!!!!!!