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How racist are you 18259

The University of Chicago offers an on-line psychological test in which you encounter a series of 100 black or white men, holding either guns or cellphones. You're supposed to shoot the gunmen and holster your gun for the others. More →


9 Comments

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redloki said on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 6:20pm [#10574]
does this mean I'm racist?:
Game Over
Your Score: 610
Average reaction time:
Black Armed:620.96ms
Black Unarmed:627.52ms
White Armed:622.88ms
White Unarmed:634.2ms
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joeyo said on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 10:22pm [#10575]
I doubt that 620 vs 627 msec (white armed vs black armed) is significant. I wish it gave better information about accuracy for each class (though I suppose that is bound up in the score.)

The points system is interesting. It looks like you got +5 for not shooting correctly, +10 for shooting correctly, -20 for shooting improperly, and -40 for not shooting (when you should have)
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joeyo said on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 10:25pm [#10576]
As for me:

Game Over
Your Score: 175
Average reaction time:
Black Armed:756.48ms
Black Unarmed:892.56ms
White Armed:757.88ms
White Unarmed:818.88ms

Looks like you are more twitchy than I am but also a lot more accurate. It took me a long time to determine that a black person was unarmed.

It would be interesting to know what effect the background scene has on the reaction time, too.
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hghlndr said on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 3:35pm [#10577]
These are called implicit attitude tests. The classical result is that a person with no self-reported stereotypes will show implicit attitudes consistent with stereotypes.
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hghlndr said on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 3:41pm [#10578]
I'm also a racist:
Score 735
BA: 592
BU: 693
WA: 622
WU: 682
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ktheory said on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 10:21pm [#10581]
FWIW, I recognize my friend Carlos as one of the models :-) I know a bunch of people who got $5 to model for this study. (I'm a U of C alum)
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tabooli said on Tue Apr 29th, 2008 10:44am [#10582]
I was going to do this test, but then I saw it had pictures of niggers.
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joeyo said on Tue Apr 29th, 2008 12:22pm [#10583]
i shoot the people stealing the wallets. am i doing it rite?
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bvllets said on Tue Apr 29th, 2008 4:36pm [#10585]
Game Over
Your Score: -920
Average reaction time:
Black Armed:19444.64ms
Black Unarmed:878.88ms
White Armed:748.48ms
White Unarmed:861.88ms

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