Do you have unconcious biases?

[othell]

http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/02.html

Find out!

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Please tell me whatcha think of these. I found the quick survey at the beginning to be.... very biased? The questions it asked were quite ambiguous in many cases and I wonder if that's not the real test and everything afterwards is just fluff.

I have other questions/opinions about what comes afterwards... But I won't share those as of yet.

Also... I've only done the first one (Disability Bias) at this time... Apparently my "data suggest[s] a strong automatic preference for Abled persons." Damn me to hades!

LOVE----------------------------------------------------FEAR


Oh yah I wrote this in the feedback section of their site:

Hi, I read your website and I must say it's very funny. I assume it's a parody of some government site or somesuch. I really liked the java games, I think it was very post-modern how you took essentially a reaction-based game similar to Dance Dance Revolution (though very much simplified) and extrapolated vast aspects of a persons character from the final score! Bravo, this webpage has convinced me and my friends that the internet can still provide original, creative humor without being too tasteless. Keep up the good work!

[SithDrummer]

Tolerance is the new jingo term for the politically correct. It means that you should be ostracized for not being PC.

[othell]

On the survey before the actual test, I found the ethnicity part interesting...

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Black-Not of Hispanic Origin
Hispanic
White-Not of Hispanic Origin
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Other or Unknown

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I found the first three I listed interesting...

Then I have to question the "Unknown" bit...

Not to mention the total bias (love the irony) of the survey...

I prefer Abled Persons to Disabled Persons | I have no preference | I prefer Disabled Persons to Abled Persons
or
Please rate how warm or cold you feel toward the following groups
(0 coldest feelings, 5 neutral feelings, 10 warmest feelings.)

What does all that mean? Warm or cold? Can we say ambiguous?

[Thrash]

Apparently I have a slight preference to blacks than whites....

[Moniker]

What does all that mean? Warm or cold? Can we say ambiguous? Dude, warm means happy. Pick the one that makes you happy. I didn't even have to think twice about that.

This site is actually pretty interesting -- stop looking at what's wrong with it and look at what's right about it.

[othell]

Originally posted by Moniker
Dude, warm means happy. Pick the one that makes you happy. I didn't even have to think twice about that.

This site is actually pretty interesting -- stop looking at what's wrong with it and look at what's right about it.

OMG! YOU HIT IT ON THE NAIL!

It's kinda funny you think that I did not pick up on that... You apparently missed how the question is more than just what warm and cold mean.

Why should I look at what's right about the site? The site itself is rull of irony. It speaks of bias yet everything on there is pretty damn biased to begin with.

The most interesting thing about the entire set of bias tests is how they are the epitome of political correctness (<--- this is how you use that term correctly).

Why should I not prefer an able person over a disabled person? I'd prefer there not to be any disabled person.

[Moniker]

Why should I look at what's right about the site? Perhaps because it's for a positive purpose? I mean hell, why don't we go slam a few charities and homeless shelters too?

I was taking the American Indian bias test, and the idea of having quick responses is to basically to see what your initial reaction was to something. So when they have e as "American Indian and American" as opposed to i being "European Descent and Foreign", and you have to second guess yourself because seeing a picture of a white person automatically triggers you to think American -- I think that's where the true value of it comes out.

The site isn't saying "OMG YOU'RE A BAD FUCKING PERSON AND THE MOST INTOLERANT SCUM ON EARTH", but at the very least, gives some insight into how you percieve things.

And to be honest, I don't think the survey was biased at all. Common sense does tend to get the better of me, after all.

hah that's pretty interesting.

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Straight people

:/

[snaggle]

I have a moderate preference of Other Peoples over Arabs.

[LuTze]

I think its kind of dumb to have the test. Of course we have unconscious biases. That is how humans think, they are called heuristics, mental shortcuts we take so we can proccess so much information at a time. We are naturaly going to associate with what we are familiar with. Its our capacity to think hey, you know what this guy isn't all that bad just becuase he's in a wheelchair, or arab, or gay or black.

Honestly if i'm thrust into a group of strangers i will probably talk to the mild manored average stature white guy first because they would be most like me.

People should just watch out though when they say, hey watch that guy over there you can't trust them darkies.

seriously the games aren't about bias

The only reason you take longer when whatever minority group is paired with the generic "good" answer is that they start off with the minority group paired with "bad", so you get used to that, and when they switch it round it throws you off. You don't even read the words in the end, it's just shape recognition because the actual words have no meaning in relation to the game.

What's bad about the site is that they're going to use all the skewed results to show a massive amount of bias in the community as a whole or something.

That thing is a bunch of BS. It said I like niggers, I hate them.

[PurpleHaze]

I got inconclusive cuz i fucked up too much =(