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What Sex Ed Should Be Like.

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A Woman Who Is Worried Her Husband Might Leave Her If She Loses Her Looks Has Insured Her Face for £100,000. Clearly her sex ed class omitted some massively important lessons about love and human dignity.

Oh, and remember the "Hidden Biases" tests that check for racism and sexism and other such things by making you click words and pictures in rapid succession? There are 60 more of them at Project Implicit. So far I only took five of them: "Your data suggest a slight preference for ATHEISM relative to RELIGION"; "Your data suggest a moderate preference for TEA relative to COFFEE"; "Your data suggest little or no preference for European American relative to African American"; "Your data suggest a moderate preference for SOCIAL PROGRAMS relative to TAX REDUCTIONS"; and "Your data suggest a moderate preference for FLEXIBLE relative to STABLE."

Actually, I've never tasted either coffee or tea in my life - though I do dislike the concept of coffee more because I associate it more strongly with caffeine addiction. And really, personalitywise, I'm way more "stable" than "flexible," myself.

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so repulsive. i can't believe that woman -- or her husband. my god.

Basic tea in fact has more caffiene than basic coffee (all bets are off on obscure specialty drinks that cost their weight in gold, however.) Regular drinking of tea in tea-dominant countries is also as strongly ritualised as regular coffee drinking is here (and by here I mean Seattle, and the stereotypes are true, all of them.) Think of the British having their morning tea, their afternoon tea, their several cups of tea with every social visit..

I drink decaf tea only, for migraine-related reasons. Tea also has a much lower learning curve than coffee; the first sip of tea someone tries is generally quite tolerable even without ridiculous amounts of milk and sugar, but coffee is bitter and horrifying, and one must learn to enjoy it. There are interesting parallels with a study done during the age of Jazz on marijuana smoking, and the way that new marijuana smokers had to 1) learn how to smoke the joint, 2) learn how to perceive the effects, and 3) learn to enjoy the effects.

I didn't claim to be well-informed, I just said those are the associations my mind makes. :p Also, though, I've heard of people claiming health benefits for certain kinds of tea, and I've never heard anyone mention any particular health benefits of coffee.

But mostly, yeah, what makes the difference in my personal biases is just the fact that my own personal workplace has a coffee machine and a bunch of coffee addicts, but no tea machine. So I perceive coffee as being the big peer pressure thing and I develop more negative feelings toward it in response to the pressure.

I kept getting "data inconclusive due to too many errors" except for on the first one I took, which gave me "moderate preference of european american over african american."

While I'm sure that American culture has probably given me some modicum of internalized racism, it was quite obvious to me during the time I was taking it that the main effect on my responses was my learning curve- the first one they give people is also supposed to be the "hard" one, in which an association that the culture doesn't consider "intuitive" is presented. The task itself was pretty hard for me (which is why I kept making "too many errors" as I got more and more tired), and it took a bit for me to adjust to what I was supposed to do, especially the fact that I had to correct my mistakes once I made them.

I'm hoping they vary the order in which they give this to people. It would be much more convincing if they administered the study by giving the "white=good," "black=bad" pairing FIRST, and the other one second, because then learning curve wouldn't even be an excuse.

I took 15 of them and I've never gotten a "data inconclusive" for any reason. You're going too fast. Go at a slow enough pace so that you get most of them right.

I'm just really bad at keeping such things in my mind, especially when I'm tired, and the longer I think about it the worse I seem to do. There were seriously times when I would be staring at the word "husband" for about five seconds, then I would think, "duh, this isn't hard" and press the "female" button. During the simple, one-category trials.

Most likely, if they gave me a test that was exclusively made up of the words "left" and "right", and I just pressed 'e' when I saw 'left' and 'i' when I saw 'right', I would have gotten at least four or five wrong, no matter how slow I was going. I'm not even that good at telling my left from my right when I'm awake.

As for the second one, I've never tasted either of them in my life, but I do dislike the concept of coffee more because I associate it more strongly with caffeine addiction.

*boggles*

I'm totally dumbfounded.

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