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It may in fact make things worse. >The Implicit Association Test has been used in online studies to assess implicit racial attitudes in over seven million part
by Vomzor 7y ago
It may in fact make things worse.
>The Implicit Association Test has been used in online studies to assess implicit racial attitudes in over seven million participants. Although typically used as an assessment measure, results from four pre-registered experiments (N = 940) demonstrated that completing a Race IAT exacerbates the negative implicit attitudes that it seeks to assess. Increases in White participants’ negative automatic racial evaluations of Black people were observed across two different implicit measures (SC-IAT and AMP) but did not generalize to another measure of automatic racial bias (Shooter Bias task). Results highlight an important caveat for the Race IAT, but also for many other forms of psychological assessment: that by measuring, we often perturb the system that we wish to understand.
https://psyarxiv.com/vxsj7/ https://psyarxiv.com/vxsj7/
- Symmetry 7y agoThis might be an aspect of the same problem that DARE had. If you castigate some act but at the same time speak in a way that says that act is common then the effect of making it seem normal will tend to trump the disapproval.
- banads 7y ago>the effect of making it seem normal will tend to trump the disapproval. I think it may be more due to the fact that people have a natural disinclination towards people pretending to be moral authorities, especially when their premise is revealed to be based on lies and pseudoscience
- Symmetry 7y agoThere were aspects of DARE that were based on Psuedoscience but lots of major and minor campaigns, from ending dueling to getting people not to steal things from the Petrified Forest National Park, have been derailed by this effect without involving lies or pseudoscience.