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Thread #144424   Message #3339570
Posted By: GUEST,Stim
17-Apr-12 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Unconscious prejudices - Harvard study
Subject: RE: BS: Unconscious prejudices - Harvard study
I took the disability test, and the results made me laugh. As I was a bit confused by process, I tended to linger a bit on the familiar images , such as the icon from my trusty handicapped placard, only to discover that in the scoring, slow response corresponded to aversion!

Intuition tells us that we tend to quickly move away from the things we are averse to, and linger on the things we are comfortable with. But the designers of these tests know better!

As a PWD(Person with disability) with several family members also with disabilities, I can tell you that there much easier ways to discern unconscious prejudices--they appear regularly and repeatedly in the mannerisms and social behavior of real people in real life when a PWD walks into the room.

It's pretty well documented that tests designed measure cognitive processes tend to reflect designer and tester bias. I wonder if that might be the case here.