IAT Summary And Analysis

I read the introduction on the IAT stating that it could reveal some degree of bias. I thought I don’t have any bias about race. I thought I would see more bias when dealing with gender. This research exercise will summarize what I learned from my results of the IAT. The first test I completed was the race test. I thought I did not have any unconscious associations of “good” and “bad” with Black and White people. After doing the test, I found out that I have a slight automatic preference towards White people. I found the results unexpected. I really had no clue that I had a preference. As I read over the test results I was astonished to read that 48% of the test takers had a strong preference for White people whereas only 6% had