I don't understand why people continue to do IAT tests. One of the core authors of the original IAT paper released a paper last year showing how the test doesn'

I don't understand why people continue to do IAT tests. One of the core authors of the original IAT paper released a paper last year showing how the test doesn't actually measure bias, and how it is not clear what this kind of test actually measures. Brian Nosek who is one of the co-authors of the IAT test just released a paper [1] that show that changes in implicit bias don’t lead to changes in behaviour. You can find a summary of the article and its findings here [2]. The paper examining 499 studies over 20 years involving 80,859 participants that used the IAT and other, similar measures. They discovered two things: * One is that the correlation between implicit bias and discriminatory behavior appears weaker than previously thought. * They also conclude that there is very little evidence that changes in implicit bias have anything to do with changes in a person’s behavior. These findings, they write, "produce a challenge for this area of research." The finding that changes in implicit bias don’t lead to changes in behavior, Forscher says, "should be stunning." "I see implicit bias as a potential means to an end, something that tells us what to do and some possible remedies for what we see in the world," Forscher says. "So if there’s little evidence to show that changing implicit bias is a useful way of changing those behaviors, my next question is ‘What should we do?’" [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308926636_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Change_in_Implicit_Bias https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308926636_A_Meta-An... [2] https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-We-Really-Measure-Implicit/238807 https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-We-Really-Measure-Impl...