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IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST

The Harvard-based Implicit Association Test is quite exciting and to some point accurate.

I took the race test and gender test which asked how I feel about men and women in liberal arts

and sciences. Interestingly, the race test showed that I preferred African American people as

compared to European American. This came as no surprise as I associate more with the African

culture. Most of my friends are African American, and we mostly do our activities together like

going to church and hanging out. It was weird seeing negative words associated with African

American people. Despite the fact that I have a mentality that positive things should be related to

European Americans, I just did not want to choose African Americans as angry or nasty. My

conscience would not allow that. I would instead get the answer wrong than associate African

American people with the negatives.

After doing the whole test, I felt kind of oblivious and ignorant. The test did not favor the

European Americans as I thought. On the fifth set of questions, I realized that also the European

Americans were being associated with the negatives and African Americans associated with the

positives. The reason why I had assumed that African American people are related to bad things

is that of my upbringing that made me not to trust the Europeans all the way. I also had that

mentality that African Americans are always looked down upon and associated with bad things.

I have many friends at school that are European Americans, and whenever we hang out it

does not feel weird but, deep within me, I feel different when we are together unlike when I hang

out with my African American friends. Nevertheless, when people you associate with, live with

and love put attitudes continuously about something into your mind, with time, you will

subconsciously start reasoning in the same manner. I am now planning on changing my attitude

towards the European Americans, and I will drop that mentality. I think this test has changed my

thinking pattern related to certain prejudices.

As far as gender science is concerned, I think that it is people's mindset that affects their

association of a particular field to a given gender. Even though my score suggests a moderate

automatic relationship for males with science and females with liberal arts, it all depends on

one's mindset. I've been brought up with the idea that men like sciences and math and ladies tend

to like liberal arts and humanities. Most students associate ‘boys and science' more often than

they do associate ‘girls and science.' Majority of my male friends like sciences, when you go to

their classes, the majority of the students taking science courses are males. When I go to a liberal

arts class, say literature, most of the population there are females. I have grown up with mostly

male teachers in math and science and women teachers in humanities and literature. Therefore,

that is where that mentality originated. In the test, I realized that I was getting wrong answers

just because it worked that way.

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