African-American Race Test

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I decided to take the race test twice. The first time I took it, I only made the mistake of mixing some European American face with an African American face without paying attention to the categories. My result for the first was the Automatic preference for African american compared to European american. After I got this result, I believed this whole test was inaccurate because with just three mistakes you can not determine someones preference. So I decided to take it over again with no mistakes this time, just to see what my result maybe. After taking the test a second time I received Automatic preference for African American compared to European American. This is the same outcome I received the first time with just minor mistakes. After

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