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queerbychoice) wrote2001-12-05 12:32 am
queerbychoice) wrote2001-12-05 12:32 am
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Test Your Unconscious Biases!
Finally, a set of personality tests that are actually worth taking!
Age Bias—Do you prefer the young or the elderly? This test measures the automatic association between the young and old and positive and negative concepts.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for young.
[Hmm. I took this test first because it felt the least scary; I didn't think I had any preference.]
Racial Bias: Asian Americans—This test probes for an automatic stereotype that Asian Americans are not as "American" as European Americans.
Your data suggest little or no automatic ethnic association with American or Foreign.
[Yay, so I did learn something from having grown up with all Asian friends instead of Euro ones!]
Gender Bias—This stereotype test measures the strength of automatic association between women and men and the concepts "liberal arts" and "science."
Your data suggest a strong automatic association between male and science.
[This test was by far the most overwhelmingly difficult for me of any of them. I was pretty sure ahead of time that I'd get a rotten score, I was still shocked to find out just HOW extremely incapable I am of associating "female" with "science," no matter how hard I try. Off to feminist reeducation boot camp with me!]
Body Image Bias—Using drawings of people who vary in weight, this test measures automatic attitudes about obese people.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for fat.
[Cool! Maybe now all the people who keep annoying me by constantly declaring themselves "too fat" will shut up and start trying not to get too skinny for fear I won't prefer them anymore.]
Racial Bias: Weapons—This test measures the automatic association of weapons and harmless objects with Black and White adult faces.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic association between White and weapons.
[Um, actually I'm not used to seeing members of ANY race carrying weapons around in my everyday life.]
Racial Bias: Arab Muslims—This test measures the automatic association of Arab Muslims with positive and negative words.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Arab Muslims.
[Well, hey, all the Arab Muslims I ever went to school with were cool . . .]
Racial Bias: Black/White Children—This test measures unconscious or automatic associations of "good" and "bad" with Black and White children.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for White children.
[Bad me. I put off the Black/White tests until the end (except the Weapons one) because I knew I'd do well on any measurement of racism involving other races, but not so well on the ones involving racism against Black people. In California, there's always a good healthy and reasonably integrated mix of all races except Black, which is still extremely segregated. We even have a convenient naming system for segregated neighborhoods around here: any neighborhood that's 75%-100% Black is named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and any neighborhood that's 50%-75% Black is named after Abraham Lincoln, just so everybody knows which races are allowed to live where and all. I currently live in the Lincoln neighborhood, but my unconscious biases are unfortunately more influenced by having been raised across the river in the No Black People Allowed neighborhood.]
Racial Bias: Black/White Adults—This test measures unconscious or automatic associations of "good" and "bad" with black and white people.
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White.
[Ack, even worse me.]
Racial Bias: Skin-Tone—Do you prefer darker or lighter skin tones? This test measures automatic preference for skin color using faces that vary in skin tone and positive and negative words.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for lighter skin.
[Well, this is the only test result that I really feel is inaccurate. I do have definite skin tone preferences, I know, but my perception of skin color is divided for some reason very much into three categories of "light, middle, and dark," so the binary light-dark division presented on this test didn't really jive with the way I actually mentally perceive people - on top of which, the drawings on this test were really awful, and the fake drawn-in skin tones were not realistic looking at all. But I do have definite skin tone preferences in real life: I know that if I walk into a room full of strangers and I need to pick one of them to talk to, I invariably approach someone of medium skin color, with brown eyes and dark hair, and most of the time it's someone who is neither White nor Black. If there's anyone Asian in the room, especially, I'll always go to an Asian person first, because I've gotten used to thinking of Asian people as "the people I fit in with" and of Euro-Americans as "the people who have an annoying habit of mistaking me for one of them, and who I have to push away and put in their place for fear they'll succeed in actually making me one of them."]
What are YOUR Unconscious Biases?
P.S. In other, less important online personality test news, apparently I am a strawberry.
Age Bias—Do you prefer the young or the elderly? This test measures the automatic association between the young and old and positive and negative concepts.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for young.
[Hmm. I took this test first because it felt the least scary; I didn't think I had any preference.]
Racial Bias: Asian Americans—This test probes for an automatic stereotype that Asian Americans are not as "American" as European Americans.
Your data suggest little or no automatic ethnic association with American or Foreign.
[Yay, so I did learn something from having grown up with all Asian friends instead of Euro ones!]
Gender Bias—This stereotype test measures the strength of automatic association between women and men and the concepts "liberal arts" and "science."
Your data suggest a strong automatic association between male and science.
[This test was by far the most overwhelmingly difficult for me of any of them. I was pretty sure ahead of time that I'd get a rotten score, I was still shocked to find out just HOW extremely incapable I am of associating "female" with "science," no matter how hard I try. Off to feminist reeducation boot camp with me!]
Body Image Bias—Using drawings of people who vary in weight, this test measures automatic attitudes about obese people.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for fat.
[Cool! Maybe now all the people who keep annoying me by constantly declaring themselves "too fat" will shut up and start trying not to get too skinny for fear I won't prefer them anymore.]
Racial Bias: Weapons—This test measures the automatic association of weapons and harmless objects with Black and White adult faces.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic association between White and weapons.
[Um, actually I'm not used to seeing members of ANY race carrying weapons around in my everyday life.]
Racial Bias: Arab Muslims—This test measures the automatic association of Arab Muslims with positive and negative words.
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Arab Muslims.
[Well, hey, all the Arab Muslims I ever went to school with were cool . . .]
Racial Bias: Black/White Children—This test measures unconscious or automatic associations of "good" and "bad" with Black and White children.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for White children.
[Bad me. I put off the Black/White tests until the end (except the Weapons one) because I knew I'd do well on any measurement of racism involving other races, but not so well on the ones involving racism against Black people. In California, there's always a good healthy and reasonably integrated mix of all races except Black, which is still extremely segregated. We even have a convenient naming system for segregated neighborhoods around here: any neighborhood that's 75%-100% Black is named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and any neighborhood that's 50%-75% Black is named after Abraham Lincoln, just so everybody knows which races are allowed to live where and all. I currently live in the Lincoln neighborhood, but my unconscious biases are unfortunately more influenced by having been raised across the river in the No Black People Allowed neighborhood.]
Racial Bias: Black/White Adults—This test measures unconscious or automatic associations of "good" and "bad" with black and white people.
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White.
[Ack, even worse me.]
Racial Bias: Skin-Tone—Do you prefer darker or lighter skin tones? This test measures automatic preference for skin color using faces that vary in skin tone and positive and negative words.
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for lighter skin.
[Well, this is the only test result that I really feel is inaccurate. I do have definite skin tone preferences, I know, but my perception of skin color is divided for some reason very much into three categories of "light, middle, and dark," so the binary light-dark division presented on this test didn't really jive with the way I actually mentally perceive people - on top of which, the drawings on this test were really awful, and the fake drawn-in skin tones were not realistic looking at all. But I do have definite skin tone preferences in real life: I know that if I walk into a room full of strangers and I need to pick one of them to talk to, I invariably approach someone of medium skin color, with brown eyes and dark hair, and most of the time it's someone who is neither White nor Black. If there's anyone Asian in the room, especially, I'll always go to an Asian person first, because I've gotten used to thinking of Asian people as "the people I fit in with" and of Euro-Americans as "the people who have an annoying habit of mistaking me for one of them, and who I have to push away and put in their place for fear they'll succeed in actually making me one of them."]
What are YOUR Unconscious Biases?
P.S. In other, less important online personality test news, apparently I am a strawberry.
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I think the solution is to move to a bigger, more metropolitan city, and fraternise with many sorts of people.
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Be afraid of NOT finding out your biases.
A bias recognized and acknowledged is less dangerous than a bias unrecognized and unacknowledged.
Take the rest of those tests, boy!
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And darling, I've already seen sexism in you, and I know you're not aware of it. You should get aware of it, for a lot of reasons, not the least of them being that more women will want to take your clothes off then. Though I already want to anyway, because, well, your heart's in the right place I think, and your brain is intelligent enough to probably correct a lot of the errors it's been taught if you try.
It is not possible to live on this planet without being sexist, and prejudiced in a whole lot of other ways too. The only thing anyone can ask is that you have the courage to recognize and acknowledge your prejudices and that you make the effort to always keep trying to rid yourself of them.
Poor shaken up demoralized Isaac.
::pets you::
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I took the arab muslim one, and the association of weapsons and harmless objects with black people and white people. I don't recall the gender-related one(s), but I didn't take them.
I don't think that I'll examine my biases so more women will want to take off my clothes. 1)That sounds like a pretty hollow reason to do anything, and 2)most girls my age date guys with more pronounced biases than mine, so I don't think it's my biases that are keeping me dateless, in the Women's Studies/Women Writers classroom or out. I will examine my biases, of course, but the prospect is quite disturbing, because, being a person with a left-wing based upbringing, it's a very nice fantasy to believe that I'm completely open-minded to everyone and everything.
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Anyone who claims to have no prejudices is lying. Anyone with any sense will recognize such people as being fools. The only way to earn real respect from those who matter is speak openly about what your prejudices are and take public responsibility for them.
When I speak of getting more women to want to take off your clothes, I mean the intelligent women, the ones who matter, the ones who have good taste, the ones you ought to want. I mean the ones who don't date jerks. I was also using "getting them to want to take off your clothes" as shorthand for "getting them to want to be with you, making yourself a more enjoyable person for them to be with, making yourself as worthy as possible of being loved by them."
Oh, and the SCUM manifesto amuses me. Why on earth some people insist upon taking it seriously though, I've never been able to figure out.
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Okay, honestly, I did know what you meant about women and taking off clothes and such. I was just being a bitter smartass. Which is stupid, because I really haven't experienced much that should rightfully make me bitter, except maybe being ignored.
Ilona and I had a semi-heated discussion at the top of the CN Tower. She was arguing that women are inherently more fit for governmental positions and other positions of responsibility, or something like that. Talking about the matrilineal practices of certain native american tribes (Iroquois, probably, though she didn't mention names), with the assumption that they had the right idea, even though they were just matrilineal, and not matriarchal.
You really should read The Y Chromosome. Did I tell you that before? I don't remember who it's by. There's a bit talking about the riots when the news came out that there weren't going to be any more male babies born. Made me cry. The riots, I mean.