Comments on: on the bias http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:43:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: ChicagoRev http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias#comment-270 ChicagoRev Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:27:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias#comment-270 So far I haven't made it too the race or gender tests...but I have a slight automatic preference for Urban living...and against plastic surgery. And I'm Sally...but I think that has a lot to do with this amazing date I just had with a grad. student in Religion. :-) So far I haven’t made it too the race or gender tests…but I have a slight automatic preference for Urban living…and against plastic surgery. And I’m Sally…but I think that has a lot to do with this amazing date I just had with a grad. student in Religion. :-)

]]> By: Dickie_Cronkite http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias#comment-269 Dickie_Cronkite Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:16:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias#comment-269 I'm with the brothas. Word. I’m with the brothas. Word.

]]> By: Mamala http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias#comment-268 Mamala Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:55:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias#comment-268 I love Malcolm Gladwell's stuff. I scan the New Yorker for his columns and I actually made a trip to Barnes & Noble the day "Blink" was released...yes, I'm a geek! Signed - Sally I love Malcolm Gladwell’s stuff. I scan the New Yorker for his columns and I actually made a trip to Barnes & Noble the day “Blink” was released…yes, I’m a geek!

Signed - Sally

]]> By: Martha http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias#comment-267 Martha Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:42:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2005-01-23/on-the-bias#comment-267 I just took the race test, and it suggested I have a "moderate automatic preference for White Americans." But while that may be true on some primal level that I don't want to acknowledge, I'm also noteworthily bad at that kind of eye-hand coordination (I stink at video games and remembering what control enables which action). If the test had started with "bad" associated with "white American," and then I had to re-learn the finger-to-association pattern, I might well have turned out to show the opposite automatic preference. In other words, I'm more of a klutz than a racist. I'll try one of the other tests, though, and see what happens. (Because we're taking a snow day, and I have all kinds of time on my hands.) I just took the race test, and it suggested I have a “moderate automatic preference for White Americans.” But while that may be true on some primal level that I don’t want to acknowledge, I’m also noteworthily bad at that kind of eye-hand coordination (I stink at video games and remembering what control enables which action). If the test had started with “bad” associated with “white American,” and then I had to re-learn the finger-to-association pattern, I might well have turned out to show the opposite automatic preference. In other words, I’m more of a klutz than a racist.

I’ll try one of the other tests, though, and see what happens. (Because we’re taking a snow day, and I have all kinds of time on my hands.)

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