project implicit

project implicit

MyFOX NATIONAL) - Anyone who believes that a racist is? Not many, but line thanks to a series of tests on, now, if based on race or other sensitive issues will be inclined to determine.AT 4 O'CLOCK ON A RECENT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, a 34-year-old white woman sat down in her Washington office to take a psychological test. Her office decor attested to her passion for civil rights -- as a senior activist at a national gay rights organization, and as a lesbian herself, fighting bias and discrimination is what gets her out of bed every morning. A rainbow flag rested in a mug on her desk.

The woman brought up a test on her computer from a Harvard University Web site. It was really very simple: All it asked her to do was distinguish between a series of black and white faces. When she saw a black face she was to hit a key on the left, when she saw a white face she was to hit a key on the right. Next, she was asked to distinguish between a series of positive and negative words. Words such as "glorious" and "wonderful" required a left key, words such as "nasty" and "awful" required a right key. The test remained simple when two categories were combined: The activist hit the left key if she saw either a white face or a positive word, and hit the right key if she saw either a black face or a negative word.

Then the groups were abolished. Index finger of his wife hovered over her keyboard. The test now required her group black faces with positive words and white faces with negative words. She leaned forward attentively. She was not wrong, but it took longer to correctly sort the words and images.