My Hidden Bias Analysis

We are a byproduct of our environments, experiences, education and relationships. What we, think, do, believe, is part of us and our being, and our bias. In addition, there are also other threats to validity such as history effects, maturation effects, testing effects, instrumentation effects, selection effects, situation effects

The last hundred years has seen incredible advances in what technology can do, and now influence every part of our day. Many books and movies are built around a theme of the dangers of technology becoming more intelligent than humans and turning against us, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey,

I was curious to take the IAT racial test because I had never heard about it before. After taking it, I did some research and I found interesting explanations about what it broadly measures as well as opinions from different researchers about its use and accuracy. At first, I was a little bit scared to take it because I was afraid to discover myself having strong automatic associations that I was unaware of. When I consciously think about my values and what I stand for, I consider myself as an open-minded person who is not racist and values the globalization and multicultural mixer. However, my results suggested a moderate automatic preference for European American compared to African American. Honestly, I was surprised when I saw this answer

Our world Many studies, such as one called thean Implicit Association Test, have been done to research attitudes about different stereotyped traits such as race, gender, and age. For example, one such test conducted in 2006 had subjects categorize words and images by pressing a button on the left or right side of a computer when presented with either a picture of an African American or a European American and either a positive or negative word. The reaction times were measured because as the researchers stated “Participants will press keys faster when the categories produce cognitive consonance rather than dissonance...Thus, someone with an implicit preference for whites will respond faster when [European American] faces are paired with pleasant words than when [African American] faces are paired with pleasant words”. And if I completely lost you there, that pretty much boils down to this- when the subjects favor one race they are faster to click the button when a good word and “good” face are together because to them it makes more sense. And this, is a much more difficult habit to

Despite global increases in diversity, social prejudices continue to fuel intergroup conflict, disparities and discrimination (Amodio, 2014). What exactly is prejudice tendencies and how can one avoid it? One of the most common types of prejudice is racial. Racial prejudice is based upon negative preconceived notions of select racial groups with the assumption that all members of a particular racial group can be categorized with the same negative characteristics (Gassner & McGuigan, 2014). To better understand prejudice I took the “Test Yourself for Hidden Biases” questionnaire on race. I have to say that I was not impressed with how this test was used to find out if you have unconscious prejudice towards African Americans. The test

I think that the Race IAT was calculated based on how quickly you were able to correctly associate the given picture with the race and positive/negative word. For instance, the test likely recorded the average time it took me to hit the ‘E’ or ‘I’ key based on if black faces and negative words were associated versus if black faces and positive words were associated. If it took longer for me to hit the correct key with the black face/positive word than it did the black face/negative word, it is likely that there may be some sort of implicit bias against the former association. After I received my result, I was initially surprised that I was slightly preferring the black/negative association versus the black/positive association. However, after

Hypothesis Wittenbrink, Judd, and Park (1997) hypothesized the degree of involuntariness of Caucasian Americans’ triggered connections of African Americans. They thought that involuntary stereotyping would occur when being presented elements that referenced African Americans. Easier responding to African American related elements should occur after experiencing elements that related to African Americans (black prime) and Caucasian American stereotypes after experiencing elements that related to Caucasian Americans (white prime). The eased responses to stereotypes should vary according to how positive or negative the element is (valence), therefore expressing involuntary prejudices (Wittenbrink, Judd, & Park, 1997).

I took the Skin-tone test. My results described me as an “Automatic preference for light skinned people over dark skinned people”. I believe my results are wrong, because I don’t have a preference when it comes down to skin colors. Skin colors don’t really matter to me. I’m going to like a person no matter what he or she skin tone is. My results are telling me that I’m choosing light skinned people over dark skinned people. I found my results to be very strange and crazy, because I’m African America. However, you do have people in this world we live in, that have a preference in what type of skin tones they prefer to interact with.

Automatic prejudice is classified as the first thoughts and judgments a person has when they see a certain object. Some people say, “don’t judge a book by a cover” but that is exactly what most people do right off the bat. If someone judges a homeless man negatively at first glance, but then feels bad in their heart for the person make them a terrible human? I say no. The first thought we have when we see something is normally out of our control, but with the second we can analyse the object and formulate an opinion better. This being said I do not give much credit to the implicit association test. The one I took was the featured task test, and it was about the presidential candidates from the most recent U.S. election. After completing the

I have heard of implicit bias from my high school AP Psychology class. Implicit bias is bias against a certain group of people based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender, or any other feature. It is bias that is unconscious and may not be known to that individual may not be aware of. Explicit bias is discrimination that someone is consciously aware of. I took the IAT test relating to gender and STEM. I choose that one because am a female in a male dominated STEM career. The results found that I had no preferences with gender and science. I was not surprised by the results of my test. I do not think I associate one gender with science because I see many males and females in my chemistry and calculus class. I will use my knowledge of implicit bias

The optimism bias pushes people towards positive change because most people want positive change and according to Tali Sharot to make changes in our life we must believe that the changes are possible. Even rather pessimistic people want to change there for they believe it is possible. When a person believes in change and anticipates the change it releases serotonin in the brain and brings about a happy feeling, there for improving their overall wellbeing.

The Honest, Non-Biased, Un-Opinionated News Today’s media coverage does not truly report accurately on what has happened, but rather focus on their point of views and how they perceived the events. They mix in their flavor of the news and try to sway in their audience to switch or reaffirm

Implicit bias everyone possesses it, even if they do not ament to it. Implicit bias is also known as social cognition. It refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions,and decisions. About 48 hours after the presidential debate monday night, Trump responded to what Ms..Clinton spoke about implicit bias. Trump thinks that Hillary accused the entire country of implicit bias. Trump then goes on to bashing clinton about everything she has ever said to make her seem like a terrible person towards the citizens and our cops,soldiers,firefighters,the men that severing the country.

Introduction Racism is a complex social issue deeply rooted in society that leads to discrimination and inequality. While most are not inclined to admit to explicit biases against those of other races, humans are biologically wired to make decisions and judgements based on biases. Evolutionarily, humans had to form groups in

To that end, humans must consider the amount of bias which is permissible, and if the advantages outweigh the unknown biases that may exist in hiring decisions made by humans. Conscious or subconscious bias is prevalent in all facets of society, and may not even be noticed by the perpetrators