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Implicit association tests have little predictive validity--that is, if we know that someone has more "unconscious bias" in an IAT, we should expect zero differ
by enoch_r 10y ago
Implicit association tests have little predictive validity--that is, if we know that someone has more "unconscious bias" in an IAT, we should expect zero difference in their behavior.
See:
http://www.law.virginia.edu/pdf/faculty/reassessingpredictivevalidityoftheiat.pdf http://www.law.virginia.edu/pdf/faculty/reassessingpredictiv...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239732934_Predicting_Ethnic_and_Racial_Discrimination_A_Meta-Analysis_of_IAT_Criterion_Studies https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239732934_Predictin...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjop.12288/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjop.12288/abstra...
- nikcheerla 10y agoGreat studies. I always felt something was off about the IAT and couldn't tell exactly why. Maybe it primes us for racism/sexism/whatever it's testing?
- ee8aq3g5c6 10y agoI think many people posess a self-image that race is not a salient characteristic in their thoughts and they describe this as being "not racist". There is a premise in discussions about race that being racist (judging someone because of their race) and acting racist (treating someone differently based on their race) are two different things. We act not-racist to prove that we are not-racist in our brains. The accusation of racism can be rebutted by the argument that you can't read my mind. The implicit bias test shows that either this brain-focused definition of racism is wrong, or we need to accept that we are more racist that we would like to admit.