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| Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:58am |
So there have been quite a few posts on here about race and how it plays into the presidential race (or doesn't). As a graduate student, I was introduced to research done on peoples' implicit associations with all kinds of things from race to poverty to age to being overweight. Harvard has a very cool website where you can check out your own implicit associations (associations you have with different traits without being fully conscious of it) at their website: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/featuredtask.html
It's not a partisan thing. The research has been on-going for several years now. The hope is that if people realize they have implicit associations that may affect their behavior, they can consciously counter-act prejudices they may have.
Let me know what you think if you try it! I'm going to do the election one right now.

cool test. this is how i scored. pretty much what i predicted
Your data suggests a slight automatic preference for Barack Obama over John McCain
Your data suggest no difference in your automatic associations between Christian on the one hand and Barack Obama and John McCain on the other
Your data suggest no difference in your automatic associations ...apparently i didnt copy and paste it correctly...but this statement was the previous one, only replacing "christian" with "american"
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html
I did just the presidential preference test (I'll go back and do the others later), and it said I had a slight automatic preference for Obama over McCain.
Wow that was really cool. :o)
Your data suggests a moderate automatic preference for Barack Obama over John McCain
Your data suggests a much stronger automatic association between Christian and Barack Obama, compared to John McCain
Your data suggests a much stronger automatic association between American and Barack Obama, compared to John McCain
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I am somewhat surprised at the stronger association of Christian and American to Obama.
I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure