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This is really cool. I wonder if it's possible to get locked into a loop?

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More interesting links:

Harvard's Implicit Association Tests
The Scientific American article discussing the IAT

I've tried most of them. So far, I've gotten the following:

( IAT Results )

The men/women ones surprised me, I'll admit, but I think I'm going to come back to them tomorrow and see if changing the order of things doesn't change my preferences. (I tend to get stuck in "men left, women right" if that's how the word orders start, and then can't break out for the second half - so if men start out as the "science/left" association, I have a harder time associating them with the "arts" associations.) -- I'll note that the FAQ does admit that there may be a slight bias from this, I'm not re-testing myself to get better results.

The one that bothers me the most is the African American association with weapons, and I'm going to see if that one is also subject to the order issue.

And I'm mostly confused by the disabled over abled, fat over thin, and Jewish over non-Jewish than anything else, since I fall very much into the "not disabled, skinny atheist" category. It's like the total opposite of what's supposed to happen. (Jefferson v. Bush makes sense - I'm surprised it was only mild.)

I'd like to sit down with some of the articles that have been written and read them.

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Prognosis:

Overqualified to work at places that are hiring, underqualified to work in places that require skills I have because I'm going back to school.

RAGE.

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And now the asshole truck drivers are hitting us, too.

No one was hurt, it was mostly scraping and a dent on the back left passenger side, but for fuck's sake, what is wrong with truck drivers on Bovaird?