After taking the Implicit Association Test offered online through Harvard University in collaboration with a few other institutions, I can say that I am somewhat shocked by my results. I took the IAT for automatic preferences of those of European or African decent, essentially my preference of race. In the brief description of the test, it said that the majority of people prefer white over blacks. I thought of myself as being part of the exception group; the very few people who do not fit society 's norms and go against the typical responses. I did not think that I would be similar to the majority and have a preference to European origin over African. After all, I am black, all of my life I have been surrounded by people of my race; therefore,
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After already believing that I did not have a preference, the outcome of the test said otherwise. How would I change my future results if they don’t correlate with my beliefs? I’m sure that if I continue to take the findings into consideration throughout the course of my life then maybe I would actually notice that some of my thoughts and behaviors actually coincide with the scores. Surprising as they maybe, my realizations will allow me to justify the said preference from the test and confirm its accuracy. Following confirmation of the test’s outcome, I could thus proceed to changing some of my newly realized thoughts and behaviors so that I could teach myself not to have a preference …show more content…
I was generally stunned that my results came out to have that preference given my personal situation. Although my preference is only slight in degree, I still fear it getting stronger due to it already being stronger that what I had already believed that it be. I’m sure that for most people who took the test, their results may have also been shocking due to finding out information about themselves that they did not initially perceive to be true or would apply to them. As a result, I think the IAT could potentially be used to prevent those who are subconsciously prejudice from being in positions of causing potential discrimination on another, and thus, reduce
After already believing that I did not have a preference, the outcome of the test said otherwise. How would I change my future results if they don’t correlate with my beliefs? I’m sure that if I continue to take the findings into consideration throughout the course of my life then maybe I would actually notice that some of my thoughts and behaviors actually coincide with the scores. Surprising as they maybe, my realizations will allow me to justify the said preference from the test and confirm its accuracy. Following confirmation of the test’s outcome, I could thus proceed to changing some of my newly realized thoughts and behaviors so that I could teach myself not to have a preference …show more content…
I was generally stunned that my results came out to have that preference given my personal situation. Although my preference is only slight in degree, I still fear it getting stronger due to it already being stronger that what I had already believed that it be. I’m sure that for most people who took the test, their results may have also been shocking due to finding out information about themselves that they did not initially perceive to be true or would apply to them. As a result, I think the IAT could potentially be used to prevent those who are subconsciously prejudice from being in positions of causing potential discrimination on another, and thus, reduce