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Racist

I just took tests at two sites to determine if I have subconscious racist biases. Here they are:

U Chicago
Harvard [the race IAT]

I first read about these in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and then today in Nicholas Kristof's NY Times column. Apparently whites and blacks alike tend to associate blacks with negative things and whites with positive things. The tests are designed to access the subconscious through mind-numbingly repetitive tasks that measure implicit associations.

So go give them a try.

The U Chicago test has you shooting or choosing to not shoot a series of white and black men holding guns or cell phones. I shot whites with guns faster than blacks and I holstered my gun faster with blacks than with whites [no error bars were quoted, so I don't know if the results were statistically significant, but the difference appeared "large"]. This means that I am subconsciously biased anti-white. The second test is an association test and I scored dead even with no bias. I have many questions/complaints about the methodology but the general conclusion is that I test marvelously bias-free!

Everybody let me know how you do... and whether you measure up to my lofty precedent of high-minded anti-European American bigotry.