I am reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell at an alarming pace. Right now I’m in the middle of “The Warren Harding Error” chapter, which takes about the possible disadvantages of snap judgments. Gladwell writes about Project Implicit which attempts to measure unconscious biases. The web site has demo versions of the test. In the European-American/African-American test my data indicated “little to no automatic preference between African American and European American.” I would like to think this is because my conscious beliefs and implicit attitudes actually do align on this topic, but for all I know it could just be because I am familiar with the study or I’m left-handed, or the order that the tests came in.

Anyway, still very interesting. I might take some more of the tests later, I wonder if I am more biases when it comes to something like gender and science.