Comments | kaygigi: Things that make you go hmmm

kaygigi

Things that make you go hmmm

Feb 12, 2008 17:50

So I was reading this article on newsweek.com (via msnbc.com, my preferred online newssource since CNN did away with their "education" section), and it made mention of Project Implicit, which seeks to show that people have implicit associations with negative imagery and certain types of people, and the subtle (like milisecond) differences in basic ( Read more... )

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strauss February 13 2008, 03:03:22 UTC

I have a strong automatic preference for homos (though they showed me two women and never two men) and a very strong preference for Clinton. Obama came in just above McCain for me, with Huckabee at the far bottom.

kaygigi February 13 2008, 03:18:28 UTC

Clinton and Obama were even, just above Huckabee. McCain was far below. I think it's because I don't really recognize Huckabee, but McCain has a stronger reaction... and I don't really like Clinton or Obama. They were just above neutral. Huckabee was neutral.
I was annoyed that I only was shown images of two men. I said that my preference for homos was probably skewed because they only showed me male imagery. But out of curiosity, did you pick male or female for gender? I picked female, which may explain why I saw male imagery, if you picked male. I know male and female are the wrong answers to the question of gender, but whatever, they're psychologists who obviously haven't taken the "queer-not queer" implicit assessment test ;)

alilizbeth February 13 2008, 20:38:04 UTC

I appear to have a "strong automatic preference for Europeans over Africans" although in the single indicator test I have a "strong automatic association between Africans and good things." I'm not sure that I think this study is very well designed; what I definitely have is a strong automatic preference for the first pattern that I learn. In switching the patterns, it's confusion over right and left rather than automatic preferences that gets demonstrated. I'm not denying that I probably have a preference for white faces over black faces, but I reject the contradictory results that this study gave me. It just proves that I am a creature of habit and get lazy after I learn a task.

kaygigi February 13 2008, 21:22:19 UTC

It's also the product of it being a demonstration test and not under ideal conditions. The full study probably accounted for things like pattern recognition, whereas the quick tests can't ( ... )