Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:27:04 -0400
From: Paul Stone <pas-AT-MNSi.Net>
Subject: Re: PLC: measure your implicit assumptions


At 03:59 AM 8/31/2004, you wrote:
>https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/measureyourattitudes.html

I see an implicit bias in the test itself. I did the old/young test. This 
is mainly a test of reflexes. It starts out with old on the right and young 
on the left. Then it tests on good/bad with good on the left and bad on the 
left. THEN, after you have developed somewhat of a skill at doing this, it 
links up the (implied) opposites by switching the old people and the young 
people to left and right respectively. So... now, when you see a young 
person, they are linked to the 'bad' side and the old people are now linked 
to the 'good' side. Of COURSE it's harder to do now because the initial 
tests got you skilled at doing right for bad and old and left for good and 
young. I would be interested to see the results if they started out with 
the individual tests being bad and young on the same side and good and old 
on the same side and THEN switching them. My hunch is that it would be just 
as difficult to link up the good/young and bad/old that the test implies we 
are biased towards.

paul 



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