I actually had to take this same test in my psychology class. Crazy that actual schools view this as a valid test and still use it to show a lesson on implicit bias. The only implicit bias is the test itself
Especially since these test have never been Scientifically validated. Its suedo scientific bullshit. Implicit biases do exist, but these test haven't ever been shown to be able to actually demonstrate them or that biase is actually based in racism and fails to account for other co-factors for the result. Like mental health or cultural exposure.
@Gogo Apples That's funny because I'm a scientist, I work in the field of Mycology. The IAT has never been scientifically verified to be able to determine behavior corollary to the bias that it supposedly uncovers. This article will explain to you the issues surrounding the IAT and has references to the relevant research: www.chronicle.com/article/can-we-really-measure-implicit-bias-maybe-not/ The fact that some colleges use the IAT isn't a scientific argument supporting it. so maybe you shouldn't claim other people are anti scientific when making fallacious arguments apealing to authority rather than actual data.
There is literally centuries of "science" out there saying this lol. You do realize black people were legally 3/5 human until the 1900s damn near lol. Remember that one republican who ran for president still believed it. Also, the test is literally random an gains picked the black an white bias test. There were many races to others to pick lol. An of course people would think they're polar opposites, that's how racism works. What else do you except from a test made to highlight your hidden biases?
Human races have experienced divergent evolution for over ten thousand years and the fst values between human races is as wide as many subspecies in nature. There are literally millions of genetic differences between the races, if you were a doctor you could be sued for malpractice for not believing in race.
I thought so too, the whole test is trying to make you appear racist, and when you aren't it just gives up and says what it said for Vegan Gains, about you having only a slight preference for whites.
Yes it establishes a pattern and conditions you to follow it. Really bad science. It is designed to make you fail it. It is indoctrination camouflaged as science.
The order is random. It could have been "Bad" and "European American" first, so I guess according to your reasoning, half the participants get a negative association towards whites.
So basically the test biases your brain to associate African Americans with "bad" and then tells you to instantly switch it up so that now you have to associate white people with "bad", then probably calls you a racist based on the fact that you took longer on the second part probably because your brain is confused/getting used to the switch up. And the output is just gonna look like: Took 1.5 seconds on average to click on black/bad. Took 1.7 seconds on average to click on white/bad. Result: person is implicitly racist.
The order is random, you could get "Bad" and "European American" first. The test is actually not as stupid as Richard portrays it. It just says more about a population than an individual (due to the problem of switching the keys mid-test).
@@pdpgb exactly, and if you have significantly more people with one bias compared to the other, the population has a tendency towards that bias. But I agree, on an individual level this test is pretty bad. I guess you would have to do it a bunch of times with like a week break each time in order to discover a true bias.
@@austinpowers7670 Probably is any number of factors could be influencing the longer time. Like what if the black people having darker skin makes your brain take longer to register it because of just the amount of light coming into your eyes? Or maybe you're just better at recognizing white people causing you to click faster. Doesn't mean you're racist at all towards non whites. They should try this exact same thing but with random categories like plant/animal/furniture/vehicle instead of good/bad and see the results then. There's no guarantee that the reason for the different reaction times is you associating the races with good/bad specifically.
"In psychology, a measure is considered reliable if it has a test-retest reliability of at least 0.7, although it is preferred to be over 0.8. Studies have found that racial bias IAT studies have a test-retest reliability score of only 0.44, while the IAT overall is just around 0.5. The second major concern with IAT is its validity. Validity is best established by showing that results from the test can accurately predict behaviors in real life. However, from 2009 to 2015, four separate meta-analyses came out all suggesting that the IAT is a weak predictor of discriminating behavior (Goldhill, 2017)." This is partly why we have lost faith in authority and institutions. www.hcdi.net/reliability-and-validity-of-implicit-association-test/
This test was obviously meant to confuse people and simultaneously condition them to associate the keys with their responses, mix it up and see if their responses are the same or different. These psychologists are trying to play mind games and see how we do.
From an UX standpoint, the first button/ meaning association will always be stronger and remapping the keys creates confusion. In the first step, "African American" is associated with "bad" which sets the bias. I'm sure the same would happen if you replace the people with total meaningless things.
Exactly what I was thinking. It's more a cognitive test than anything else. It feels similar to those tests where the word is a certain color (for e.g purple) but the word itself spells red, and you have to say what color the words are as fast as possible. It would be interesting to see the results of this test if the first portion was switched to black good, white bad
@@ladymoniquevonmolendorff5304 I remember such a test in an university course to demonstrate cognition and learning. It was designed to actually make you answer questions incorrectly. It's kind of subconscious programming
I find the American hate to be so baffling. "American" is such a broad generalized term. Anyone from North, Central, or South America is an American. So, which one of us do you think are stupid?
Guilty untill proven innocent.. I hate the times We are living in. Wait there is a pattern established and after that they switch it up. Is this not measuring how you can switch it up instead of racism. So is this not measuring some kind of cognitive ability instead if racism.
Exactly! I'm dyslexic and had a really hard time understanding what was going on and reading things quickly, it's a speed test too. Hilariously it said I have a strong bias with dark skinned people, which is every guy and girl I've ever dated, my husband, and at least half my friends. Maybe they mean I have a positive bias? Lol.
@@samuel7385 ya lmao I go to college too and I live in toronto and they had me do this test but for a gay bias. Apparently i have a bias towards being friends with straight ppl lmaoo
This test is the one with the discrimination problem! Thank you for questioning stuff like this, I've always hated it when people say "everyone's racist", I'm not racist, and it's good to hear others speak up about the ability to not care about another person's colour.
Unpopular opinion: Saw the title and not sure where this will go although I feel like I have a fair idea how you feel about this. Watching and commenting at the same time. This test is actually based and backed by a plethora of research. Appreciate you naming things that may effect your results. I would also include how much work you’ve done in the area of race academically or not, etc. Everyone holds implicit bias so you stating that shows you don’t know what implicit bias means. I 💯 support these tests. The as fast as you can is not “weird” it’s picking up on implicit meaning what we’re doing without thinking. Richard, I truly wish I could chat with you sometime about these things because you have such a large platform you’ve worked on. If anyone wants to see that please like this comment so he has a better likely hood of seeing this. He clearly is a curious minded person and I do think he’s smart and has a desire to learn. I’ve taken these tests many times and have a video of this on my channel for awhile back. Everyone is bias. Richard you cannot be racist because you’re Black, as perceived in the US, even though you’re bi racial. Read more up on this Richard if you’re curious about the legitimacy of these tests. At the end of the day I’m glad you’re doing a video on the IATs. Richard, ugh, I wanted to help you while you’re taking the test, lol. They’re assessing speed as well. They keep in mind all the “mistakes” you’re talking about. All of it is a part of the test. All you have to do is follow the instructions and the results show. Richard, watching you laugh about this makes me sad. I’m halfway through and this is difficult to watch for me. You’re supposed to go as fast as you can. Mistakes are fine. I do agree with you about what you said about being humiliated and sadomasochism basically. It’s not weird they’re asking about Black people. This is an IAT based on race. The fact that you don’t know what they’re saying about Black culture breaks my heart too. You being “super into White girls” is likely a part of implicit bias. I’m a Brown person and used to say that too, now realizing that was an impact of color lightening. You’re not racist towards your own race. That you’re using the word “retarded” ugh. I appreciate you Richard and this video was super painful and cringeful to watch. Your voice raised toward the end as you were upset criticizing this test. Yes Richard I’m sure you know more then Harvard in the amount you’ve invested in this vs them. SMH and huge dislike 👎🏽 Also at the end you seem surprised that you have a preference for Whites when you’ve admitted multiple times in your videos that you prefer White women to other races. What exactly is hot about a White woman that isn’t inherently in Black and Brown ones?
I support everything you said except the last part where you include Latins as a race. Latins are either White, Black, Native or a mixed between any of this. Nothing do to with race.
I think there must be better versions of this test where errors are accounted for by more numbers and more repetitions. It was a while ago when I first took this test in my uni but I remember it was way longer
i was gonna take the test to see what it would say if i pretended to be black but it for some reason is changed to chinese people and white people...what did i do wrong
I took the test as a brown dude and found that I have an implicit bias against lighter skinned people / towards darker skinned people. Does this mean I need to try to dislike dark skinned people more / like lighter skinned people more, to even things out? 😂
I tried out these tests, they seem extremely loose in any possible meaning that can be derived from them. Also probably ' wrong ', because at first you get used to the confusing controls and game associations you have to play, and when they switch them up, you start slowing down or making mistakes until you get the hang of it until they switch it again. I dunno if they take into account that when they switch it up there's a bit of re-learning every now and again, and how would they even take it into account , but it will skew your results if they don't, since it's says that it's the only thing they actually base your results on.
Am also a mixed racer out here and I’ve got a slight preference for AAs, might have to do with where you’ve lived/family near since that’s where you take the most information. Maybe do a couple more and see what the results are?
Yea they usually sneak in things that people actually have a bias towards. Like mugshots or tattoos or the clothes people wear. Or angles/lighting or the size of the person or the facial expression.
@@mrm5229 I remember one study where people were suppose to pick out who they thought was a criminal from a bunch of fake mugshots and most of them picked this black guy who was also the biggest person out of the options. And the result was of course that they were all racist for picking the black guy when he wasn't really a criminal.
"Your responses suggested a strong automatic preference for African Americans over European Americans." MOOD...I think it really just depends on your race because I'm black and that's what I got oh well. I mean like he can say "BLACK GUY" in his title all he wants but he was more around his mom's side than his dad. where as I as a BLACK GUY was around my mom's side and my dad's side and they're both BLACK as fuck. And I even put my race as white so it wouldn't be no bullshit.
I know it's totally unrelated and I don't want to mock anyone, but how can owning an online clothing store be vegan? I mean a ton of greenhouse gasses are coming from product shipping. I'm just asking because I'm an online store developer who happens to be vegan for the past 4.5 years and I just realised that I might be one hell of a hypocrite. How do you deal with it Richard? I went vegan back in 2016 watching your channel. I wish you would explain this somehow.
this test times how long it takes you to get the 'right answer'. the results would probably be more valid if you took it again while focusing solely on it & not talking about your experience at the same time
Hey Vegan Gains I just saw Frank Tufano recent fitness video it’s a calisthenics workout video that he uploaded 7 months ago and I looked at the comments and yeah he is like the court jester of fitness videos
This test is more of how you associate the E and I keys rather than races and good or bad. It lets you build muscle memory for each being on one side then once you have that muscle memory switches it over so you're more likely to make a mistake. The controls should not be a factor in this test
They're testing implicit bias so split judgments based off of superficial features. If you had time to think most people would choose the most non-racial answer. I not a fan of this method but I don't know how else to judge implicit bias. So do think implicit bias is more against black people or for them?
There is not one multiple choice test I saw that didn't have flaws. Only one time there was somebody where I could point that out. When people looked at my arguments they admitted I was right. That test already was used for over a year.
This is a video about implicit/unconscious bias th-cam.com/video/RhqMEiTVICU/w-d-xo.html which we thought you might find interesting. It looks at the cause and implications and also has some suggesting for how you can reduce it.
I study psychology and we discussed this test thoroughly and our professors always said that these kind of tests are heavily debated and probably bullshit. However, you can definitely be racist to your own race by having internalized certain negative beliefs
I took this test a few months ago. Thankfully, it said I had no bias for either race. However, apparently I have a slight bias for straight people over gay people.
It test how quickly your brain can associate white as good and bad vs black people with good and bad. The inherent flaw may be accounted for with their algorithm. (Practice at this would defeat the "Implicit" part its trying to measure. The whole point is, it wants to test how easily you can sort these categories in your head. ) You having a small preference doesn't mean you're racist to your own kind, it just means you can associate white with good slightly faster than black.
Got to remember Richard, these tests go through pilot tests first. This test has acceptable reliability, as well as construct validity. Don't shit on psychological testing too much man, alot more goes into it than you think. I used to share your scepticism until I completed a course on psychometrics in my final year in undergrad as a psych. student.
Ha, so I played around with it a few times intentional getting some bits wrong or hesitating for either the black or the white or the good or the bad and no matter what I did it says preference for Europeans and just varies between strong and slight. It's a fucking grift.
I believe this test is counterbalanced, so there’s a 50% chance you would start with AA+good mapped to the same key instead. Taking it several times, allowing some time to pass in between tests will improve measurement accuracy. The questions at the end are not part of the IAT, they are for the psychologists to examine correlations between implicit associations and overtly held attitudes about race. The test doesn’t say anything about if you act upon subconscious biases, but it is helpful to know one’s biases so that you can compensate for them. Thus taking the test is itself can curb biased behavior by raising self-awareness. A racist is someone who knows they have a bias but feels no remorse about acting upon it. Racism isn’t too common anymore, especially when you contrast it with how people think about species. Many people declare that humans are intrinsically worth more than nonhumans on the basis of species alone, and take pride in being speciesist. That’s the evil we should be concerned about, not whether we have an implicit bias that we make an effort founded in fairness to compensate for. By neglecting to even study species bias, despite the far greater discrimination nonhumans experience, these scientists reveal their own implicit bigotry devoid of the very self-awareness their test seeks to provide. Ironic and hypocritical are the most charitable words I can use to address this grievous oversight.
@@multishit6664 Well, the AI threat is real, and whether we survive the technological singularity will depend on whether our moral advancement has caught up with our scientific advancement by that time. If we are still speciesist at that point, the non-living non-human sentients will retaliate in a way that living nonhuman sentients lack the power to. We must stop living by Might Makes Right or we will end up dying by it. Balance is always achieved in the end, by one way or the other. And we should be grateful the universe works this way, by action and reaction. We can only truly cherish that we have gracefully and nobly earned.
A couple of things about this as I actually had to do a Racial bias report in a psych class for my degree. The IAT has awful test retest reliability as has been mentioned in the comments, but a lot of your criticisms don't apply as the test is designed to be done on a large volume of people, and the categories and order are randomised such that overall factors like the same key being used for bad and black first as opposed to bad and white first. The test is designed to be done super quickly under the theory that you will be faster to correctly identify items you associate, such as bad and black, and that you'll take longer to enter those when the categories contradict your bias. Of course you'll make mistakes, that's the idea. Ultimately the idea isn't too bad, but in practice studies find that it is unreliable and doesn't predict behaviour or beliefs. The test isn't biased though.
For me it was a lot easier and faster to associate white people with "good" and black people with "bad". With white/good and black/bad I did the test a lot faster and without thinking ... does that mean I have a bias? ... Maybe
Americans have a tendency to self-segregate to some level, and that can be seen in the cultures being described (white culture, black culture). It does exist to some extent in america, and could be something that is lost on a person from Canada, where the lines between races may be a bit more blurred and racism is less self-imposed as part of the countries zeitgeist
The system basically trains you first to associate "good" with "European American" and "bad" with "African American" by assigning them to the same keys. So yeah, I think the test is biased but for a different reason than what Richard speculated.
Pretty sure this test is extremely unfair for dyslexic people. Apparently I have a strong bias against dark skinned people. Guess I'll have to get a divorce since my husband scares me and I can't figure out how to talk to him.... 🙄 If anything I actually go out of my way to be more friendly to darker people because I know what they go through even in their own families sometimes but definitely within their own cultures. This test is biased.
And by the way, it's not to know if you are a racist, a bias simply infers that you share a bias/preference that may be implicit to you. These are what you'd draw upon when creating further studies assessing actual racism to paint the larger picture.
"Why isn't there an option for i hate everyone equally " 😂😂😂
I despise animal abusers and the death penalty would be a fitting punishment for them I despise most people equally.
@Juba - يوبا - ⵊⵓⴱⴰ I second that motion.
i related so hard...
I actually had to take this same test in my psychology class. Crazy that actual schools view this as a valid test and still use it to show a lesson on implicit bias. The only implicit bias is the test itself
Especially since these test have never been Scientifically validated.
Its suedo scientific bullshit. Implicit biases do exist, but these test haven't ever been shown to be able to actually demonstrate them or that biase is actually based in racism and fails to account for other co-factors for the result.
Like mental health or cultural exposure.
@Kekistani Killer
You replying to me?
Because i acknowledged implicit biases do exist.
@Gogo Apples
That's funny because I'm a scientist, I work in the field of Mycology.
The IAT has never been scientifically verified to be able to determine behavior corollary to the bias that it supposedly uncovers. This article will explain to you the issues surrounding the IAT and has references to the relevant research: www.chronicle.com/article/can-we-really-measure-implicit-bias-maybe-not/
The fact that some colleges use the IAT isn't a scientific argument supporting it.
so maybe you shouldn't claim other people are anti scientific when making fallacious arguments apealing to authority rather than actual data.
7:24 "That's a white guy, that's bad"
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
Things like this are the problem, they make it seem like white and black people are polar opposites, like we are a different species
Yes, its weird that the term ”race” is still used as much as it is in the us. There is only one human race!
@@kattihatt Exactly
There is literally centuries of "science" out there saying this lol. You do realize black people were legally 3/5 human until the 1900s damn near lol. Remember that one republican who ran for president still believed it.
Also, the test is literally random an gains picked the black an white bias test. There were many races to others to pick lol. An of course people would think they're polar opposites, that's how racism works. What else do you except from a test made to highlight your hidden biases?
Human races have experienced divergent evolution for over ten thousand years and the fst values between human races is as wide as many subspecies in nature. There are literally millions of genetic differences between the races, if you were a doctor you could be sued for malpractice for not believing in race.
@@brucefisher9224 that is complete bullshit. You need to provide evidence for these claims.
This test just makes you get some muscle memory associating certain words, then tries to reverse buttons and call you a racist
doesn't putting "african american" and "bad" create a first negative association? why are all the top questions euro favorable?
Just a subtle way to get more white people hating themselves for no reason.
6:26 Exactly here
I thought so too, the whole test is trying to make you appear racist, and when you aren't it just gives up and says what it said for Vegan Gains, about you having only a slight preference for whites.
Yes it establishes a pattern and conditions you to follow it. Really bad science. It is designed to make you fail it. It is indoctrination camouflaged as science.
The order is random. It could have been "Bad" and "European American" first, so I guess according to your reasoning, half the participants get a negative association towards whites.
Why doesnt this include asians and hispanics
Richard literally selected the white - black bias. There are many more you can test for.
That's easy asians aren't allowed in Harvard.
@Juba - يوبا - ⵊⵓⴱⴰ There are 3 races in the world. The many ethnic groups in the world are just mixes of one more more races.
Because the test was racist/biased to begin with otherwise we would of gotten a rainbow 🌈!
So basically the test biases your brain to associate African Americans with "bad" and then tells you to instantly switch it up so that now you have to associate white people with "bad", then probably calls you a racist based on the fact that you took longer on the second part probably because your brain is confused/getting used to the switch up.
And the output is just gonna look like: Took 1.5 seconds on average to click on black/bad. Took 1.7 seconds on average to click on white/bad. Result: person is implicitly racist.
I did the mobile version and the sequence was flipped to associate european to bad first.
The order is random, you could get "Bad" and "European American" first. The test is actually not as stupid as Richard portrays it. It just says more about a population than an individual (due to the problem of switching the keys mid-test).
@@austinpowers7670 Well in that case you're just gonna get a bunch of racists in one direction or the other depending on which order they got first.
@@pdpgb exactly, and if you have significantly more people with one bias compared to the other, the population has a tendency towards that bias. But I agree, on an individual level this test is pretty bad. I guess you would have to do it a bunch of times with like a week break each time in order to discover a true bias.
@@austinpowers7670 Probably is any number of factors could be influencing the longer time. Like what if the black people having darker skin makes your brain take longer to register it because of just the amount of light coming into your eyes?
Or maybe you're just better at recognizing white people causing you to click faster. Doesn't mean you're racist at all towards non whites.
They should try this exact same thing but with random categories like plant/animal/furniture/vehicle instead of good/bad and see the results then.
There's no guarantee that the reason for the different reaction times is you associating the races with good/bad specifically.
Plot twist: Veg Ceps created this quiz 😂
i wouldn't doubt it 😂 he's a character ... jk
"In psychology, a measure is considered reliable if it has a test-retest reliability of at least 0.7, although it is preferred to be over 0.8. Studies have found that racial bias IAT studies have a test-retest reliability score of only 0.44, while the IAT overall is just around 0.5. The second major concern with IAT is its validity. Validity is best established by showing that results from the test can accurately predict behaviors in real life. However, from 2009 to 2015, four separate meta-analyses came out all suggesting that the IAT is a weak predictor of discriminating behavior (Goldhill, 2017)."
This is partly why we have lost faith in authority and institutions.
www.hcdi.net/reliability-and-validity-of-implicit-association-test/
This test was obviously meant to confuse people and simultaneously condition them to associate the keys with their responses, mix it up and see if their responses are the same or different. These psychologists are trying to play mind games and see how we do.
From an UX standpoint, the first button/ meaning association will always be stronger and remapping the keys creates confusion.
In the first step, "African American" is associated with "bad" which sets the bias.
I'm sure the same would happen if you replace the people with total meaningless things.
Exactly what I was thinking. It's more a cognitive test than anything else. It feels similar to those tests where the word is a certain color (for e.g purple) but the word itself spells red, and you have to say what color the words are as fast as possible.
It would be interesting to see the results of this test if the first portion was switched to black good, white bad
@@ladymoniquevonmolendorff5304 I remember such a test in an university course to demonstrate cognition and learning. It was designed to actually make you answer questions incorrectly. It's kind of subconscious programming
Harvard, worst of the school industry.
😂😂
It's an American test, of course you're not meant to think.
But I thought if someone couldn't think, it would show their true IQ? Hence the totally fair SAT test!
I find the American hate to be so baffling. "American" is such a broad generalized term. Anyone from North, Central, or South America is an American. So, which one of us do you think are stupid?
Guilty untill proven innocent..
I hate the times We are living in.
Wait there is a pattern established and after that they switch it up.
Is this not measuring how you can switch it up instead of racism.
So is this not measuring some kind of cognitive ability instead if racism.
Exactly! I'm dyslexic and had a really hard time understanding what was going on and reading things quickly, it's a speed test too. Hilariously it said I have a strong bias with dark skinned people, which is every guy and girl I've ever dated, my husband, and at least half my friends. Maybe they mean I have a positive bias? Lol.
Dangnabbit Bobby!
These shrooms are throwing my test score off!
🤣 you win
I just had to do this for school yesterday lmao wow
@@samuel7385 ya lmao I go to college too and I live in toronto and they had me do this test but for a gay bias. Apparently i have a bias towards being friends with straight ppl lmaoo
@@samuel7385 Haha nah it was for a deviance class🤣
Change schools bro
Ahaha rip
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I feel like the test should ask if you have social anxiety, dyslexia or anything that might affect your results.
I don't want my university taxes to go into this kind of stuff
Harvard is a private university, financed by rich conservative white people.
This was fun you should do more of these
Yo vegan gains, I just wanted to give you some kudos for being so calm nowadays. I've really been enjoying a lot of your recent videos
This test is the one with the discrimination problem! Thank you for questioning stuff like this, I've always hated it when people say "everyone's racist", I'm not racist, and it's good to hear others speak up about the ability to not care about another person's colour.
Unpopular opinion:
Saw the title and not sure where this will go although I feel like I have a fair idea how you feel about this. Watching and commenting at the same time. This test is actually based and backed by a plethora of research. Appreciate you naming things that may effect your results.
I would also include how much work you’ve done in the area of race academically or not, etc. Everyone holds implicit bias so you stating that shows you don’t know what implicit bias means. I 💯 support these tests. The as fast as you can is not “weird” it’s picking up on implicit meaning what we’re doing without thinking.
Richard, I truly wish I could chat with you sometime about these things because you have such a large platform you’ve worked on. If anyone wants to see that please like this comment so he has a better likely hood of seeing this. He clearly is a curious minded person and I do think he’s smart and has a desire to learn. I’ve taken these tests many times and have a video of this on my channel for awhile back.
Everyone is bias. Richard you cannot be racist because you’re Black, as perceived in the US, even though you’re bi racial. Read more up on this Richard if you’re curious about the legitimacy of these tests. At the end of the day I’m glad you’re doing a video on the IATs. Richard, ugh, I wanted to help you while you’re taking the test, lol. They’re assessing speed as well. They keep in mind all the “mistakes” you’re talking about. All of it is a part of the test. All you have to do is follow the instructions and the results show.
Richard, watching you laugh about this makes me sad. I’m halfway through and this is difficult to watch for me. You’re supposed to go as fast as you can. Mistakes are fine. I do agree with you about what you said about being humiliated and sadomasochism basically. It’s not weird they’re asking about Black people. This is an IAT based on race. The fact that you don’t know what they’re saying about Black culture breaks my heart too.
You being “super into White girls” is likely a part of implicit bias. I’m a Brown person and used to say that too, now realizing that was an impact of color lightening. You’re not racist towards your own race. That you’re using the word “retarded” ugh. I appreciate you Richard and this video was super painful and cringeful to watch. Your voice raised toward the end as you were upset criticizing this test.
Yes Richard I’m sure you know more then Harvard in the amount you’ve invested in this vs them. SMH and huge dislike 👎🏽 Also at the end you seem surprised that you have a preference for Whites when you’ve admitted multiple times in your videos that you prefer White women to other races. What exactly is hot about a White woman that isn’t inherently in Black and Brown ones?
I support everything you said except the last part where you include Latins as a race. Latins are either White, Black, Native or a mixed between any of this. Nothing do to with race.
@@davidacosta9158 thanks for your comment/reply, support, and I appreciate your feedback. That’s true and I’ll go back and fix it.
None of this makes it not a terrible test.
Also, if you want people to read your shit, format it so it's not a blob of text.
Do you consider yourself African American or African Canadian? Or African European Canadian or African European american?
Well he's not American so that cuts out half of those.
@@lavenderoh Right, but Canada is still on the american continent. These types of things confuse me to no end.
@@travisw.5116 True, he is not from the US, but he is american, a northamerican is an american.
Why were there no questions whether you feel anxious around european americans? I don't get it.
love how you added some king of the hill clips
Can bet my bottom dollar a white person made that test lol
That ur implict racism showing lol
I think there must be better versions of this test where errors are accounted for by more numbers and more repetitions. It was a while ago when I first took this test in my uni but I remember it was way longer
“Wtf, apache helicopter isn’t listed????” Lol
i was gonna take the test to see what it would say if i pretended to be black but it for some reason is changed to chinese people and white people...what did i do wrong
I took the test as a brown dude and found that I have an implicit bias against lighter skinned people / towards darker skinned people. Does this mean I need to try to dislike dark skinned people more / like lighter skinned people more, to even things out? 😂
Really fuck with this style of video man 👍
*Grey guy
I tried out these tests, they seem extremely loose in any possible meaning that can be derived from them. Also probably ' wrong ', because at first you get used to the confusing controls and game associations you have to play, and when they switch them up, you start slowing down or making mistakes until you get the hang of it until they switch it again. I dunno if they take into account that when they switch it up there's a bit of re-learning every now and again, and how would they even take it into account , but it will skew your results if they don't, since it's says that it's the only thing they actually base your results on.
Harvard asumes a person is a carier of black culture. Harvard stereotypes. I think Harvard is rayzist! 🤣
People are actually paid to create this kind of crap..
I had to take this for my english class
He has social anxiety and regularly does hours of debates on youtube? Can someone explain this to me? :'D
Am also a mixed racer out here and I’ve got a slight preference for AAs, might have to do with where you’ve lived/family near since that’s where you take the most information. Maybe do a couple more and see what the results are?
But you are only racist if you have a bias for EAs 🤪
@@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094 not even close to a coherent response to my post but okay
It literally looks like they took mugshots from the African category, and regular selfies with the Europeans.
No it doesn't and I bet you have a racial bias
You def failing this test lol
Yea they usually sneak in things that people actually have a bias towards. Like mugshots or tattoos or the clothes people wear. Or angles/lighting or the size of the person or the facial expression.
@@pdpgb exactly, I’ve never met a black person that looked so mad like the pics they used for them
@@mrm5229 I remember one study where people were suppose to pick out who they thought was a criminal from a bunch of fake mugshots and most of them picked this black guy who was also the biggest person out of the options.
And the result was of course that they were all racist for picking the black guy when he wasn't really a criminal.
"Your responses suggested a strong automatic preference for African Americans over European Americans." MOOD...I think it really just depends on your race because I'm black and that's what I got oh well. I mean like he can say "BLACK GUY" in his title all he wants but he was more around his mom's side than his dad. where as I as a BLACK GUY was around my mom's side and my dad's side and they're both BLACK as fuck. And I even put my race as white so it wouldn't be no bullshit.
I know it's totally unrelated and I don't want to mock anyone, but how can owning an online clothing store be vegan? I mean a ton of greenhouse gasses are coming from product shipping. I'm just asking because I'm an online store developer who happens to be vegan for the past 4.5 years and I just realised that I might be one hell of a hypocrite. How do you deal with it Richard? I went vegan back in 2016 watching your channel. I wish you would explain this somehow.
I took this test because I saw it here. It's ridiculous. It makes no sense how they think this can tell you what your preferences are
It helps u find your secret racism maybe you didnt know about? 🤔
those multiple choice questions sound like they created by sv3rige
this test times how long it takes you to get the 'right answer'. the results would probably be more valid if you took it again while focusing solely on it & not talking about your experience at the same time
WTF THE EXACT SAME TEST WAS ON KING OF THE HILL LMAO. was this made on april fools by any chance?
I HATE double negative sentences. They totally confuse me and i have to sit and really think
I feel you. I regularly get them in biochemistry tests at uni, it fries my brain.
And there goes whatever respect I had for Harvard University.
I dont think they care about respect from 'Marijuana Guy'
@@ariat3381 That's true but if they continue doing stupid SJW shit like this they'll go out of business.
Hey Vegan Gains I just saw Frank Tufano recent fitness video it’s a calisthenics workout video that he uploaded 7 months ago and I looked at the comments and yeah he is like the court jester of fitness videos
Whys hank hill in the thumbnail tho lmao
This test is more of how you associate the E and I keys rather than races and good or bad. It lets you build muscle memory for each being on one side then once you have that muscle memory switches it over so you're more likely to make a mistake. The controls should not be a factor in this test
They're testing implicit bias so split judgments based off of superficial features. If you had time to think most people would choose the most non-racial answer. I not a fan of this method but I don't know how else to judge implicit bias. So do think implicit bias is more against black people or for them?
People like what they like, you can't force it, just doesn't work
What does this have to do with veganism?
There is not one multiple choice test I saw that didn't have flaws. Only one time there was somebody where I could point that out. When people looked at my arguments they admitted I was right. That test already was used for over a year.
This is a video about implicit/unconscious bias th-cam.com/video/RhqMEiTVICU/w-d-xo.html which we thought you might find interesting. It looks at the cause and implications and also has some suggesting for how you can reduce it.
This reminds me of the horrors of the SAT test in america because doing something as fast as possible totally accurately determines someone's IQ.
Nice wallpaper bruh!
I think it’s bs too. My work is testing us...Thank you for having a place I can say what I really think.☺️
Meaningless is the perfect description of this test.
people attacked me last week for not going to the BLM protest in a pandemic...
I study psychology and we discussed this test thoroughly and our professors always said that these kind of tests are heavily debated and probably bullshit. However, you can definitely be racist to your own race by having internalized certain negative beliefs
You can hate your own in-group because you are an outlier. wow.
Good keep it up
I took it and it said I had a slight preference towards AAs
Listening to this from another.
Richard:
White good
Black bad .
Me confused.
nice video
I took this test a few months ago. Thankfully, it said I had no bias for either race. However, apparently I have a slight bias for straight people over gay people.
What if one were to love a bit of humiliation?
It test how quickly your brain can associate white as good and bad vs black people with good and bad. The inherent flaw may be accounted for with their algorithm. (Practice at this would defeat the "Implicit" part its trying to measure. The whole point is, it wants to test how easily you can sort these categories in your head. )
You having a small preference doesn't mean you're racist to your own kind, it just means you can associate white with good slightly faster than black.
3:48 This
The results seem right to me 😂
About what I expected
Show of hand, who was surprised by the results? I wasn’t 🤷🏽♀️
Got to remember Richard, these tests go through pilot tests first. This test has acceptable reliability, as well as construct validity. Don't shit on psychological testing too much man, alot more goes into it than you think. I used to share your scepticism until I completed a course on psychometrics in my final year in undergrad as a psych. student.
Ironic how they were sued for discriminating against asians in their admissions
9:57, so classy😹
Where's the black guy?
Ha, so I played around with it a few times intentional getting some bits wrong or hesitating for either the black or the white or the good or the bad and no matter what I did it says preference for Europeans and just varies between strong and slight. It's a fucking grift.
I took it and apparently no bias towards black or white children
This is the funniest shit I've ever seen, I actually feel bad for normal people that live in america now.
This comes from the number one school in America...
I believe this test is counterbalanced, so there’s a 50% chance you would start with AA+good mapped to the same key instead. Taking it several times, allowing some time to pass in between tests will improve measurement accuracy.
The questions at the end are not part of the IAT, they are for the psychologists to examine correlations between implicit associations and overtly held attitudes about race. The test doesn’t say anything about if you act upon subconscious biases, but it is helpful to know one’s biases so that you can compensate for them. Thus taking the test is itself can curb biased behavior by raising self-awareness.
A racist is someone who knows they have a bias but feels no remorse about acting upon it. Racism isn’t too common anymore, especially when you contrast it with how people think about species. Many people declare that humans are intrinsically worth more than nonhumans on the basis of species alone, and take pride in being speciesist. That’s the evil we should be concerned about, not whether we have an implicit bias that we make an effort founded in fairness to compensate for.
By neglecting to even study species bias, despite the far greater discrimination nonhumans experience, these scientists reveal their own implicit bigotry devoid of the very self-awareness their test seeks to provide. Ironic and hypocritical are the most charitable words I can use to address this grievous oversight.
It really comes down to insanity. The whole world is completely insane. we are the A.I. threat. Have been for an aeon.
@@multishit6664 Well, the AI threat is real, and whether we survive the technological singularity will depend on whether our moral advancement has caught up with our scientific advancement by that time. If we are still speciesist at that point, the non-living non-human sentients will retaliate in a way that living nonhuman sentients lack the power to. We must stop living by Might Makes Right or we will end up dying by it. Balance is always achieved in the end, by one way or the other. And we should be grateful the universe works this way, by action and reaction. We can only truly cherish that we have gracefully and nobly earned.
A couple of things about this as I actually had to do a Racial bias report in a psych class for my degree. The IAT has awful test retest reliability as has been mentioned in the comments, but a lot of your criticisms don't apply as the test is designed to be done on a large volume of people, and the categories and order are randomised such that overall factors like the same key being used for bad and black first as opposed to bad and white first. The test is designed to be done super quickly under the theory that you will be faster to correctly identify items you associate, such as bad and black, and that you'll take longer to enter those when the categories contradict your bias. Of course you'll make mistakes, that's the idea. Ultimately the idea isn't too bad, but in practice studies find that it is unreliable and doesn't predict behaviour or beliefs. The test isn't biased though.
My sister in law had me take the weight one and I hated it
Why, do u hate fat ppl?
If it is implicit or unconscious, trying to change it is pointless.
I did this over 10 years ago, pretty much said I liked black people more
The test talking about bias...might be biased...LOL!!!!!!!
3:48 yep they think homosexuality is racist
Only vegan gains can critique Harvard
For me it was a lot easier and faster to associate white people with "good" and black people with "bad". With white/good and black/bad I did the test a lot faster and without thinking ... does that mean I have a bias? ... Maybe
Americans have a tendency to self-segregate to some level, and that can be seen in the cultures being described (white culture, black culture). It does exist to some extent in america, and could be something that is lost on a person from Canada, where the lines between races may be a bit more blurred and racism is less self-imposed as part of the countries zeitgeist
We don’t make mistakes just happy little accidents
The system basically trains you first to associate "good" with "European American" and "bad" with "African American" by assigning them to the same keys. So yeah, I think the test is biased but for a different reason than what Richard speculated.
Pretty sure this test is extremely unfair for dyslexic people. Apparently I have a strong bias against dark skinned people. Guess I'll have to get a divorce since my husband scares me and I can't figure out how to talk to him.... 🙄 If anything I actually go out of my way to be more friendly to darker people because I know what they go through even in their own families sometimes but definitely within their own cultures. This test is biased.
The multiple choice was racist in itself since it put a perception on on black people experiencing racism.
I don’t get this test. This is supposed to test if you’re racist?
The test is racist. 😂🤷🏼♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏿♂️
And by the way, it's not to know if you are a racist, a bias simply infers that you share a bias/preference that may be implicit to you. These are what you'd draw upon when creating further studies assessing actual racism to paint the larger picture.
Gains