Bump!

I'm curious about what people experienced while/after taking these tests. I took 4 of them in a row and now feel mentally and emotionally exhausted. Needless to say, I wasn't pleased with some of my results.

Interestingly, the results I was happiest with (because they said I had little to no preference) were made up of symbols and images that were unfamiliar to me. For example, in the disability test, they use road sign symbols of skiers and seeing-eye dogs that I have never encountered in real life. In the Asian-American association with 'foreign' test, I was unfamiliar with lesser-known American landmarks like the tall loopy structure I just found out through Google is the "Gateway Arch". I feel like my lack of familiarity with different symbols and images is what accounted for my two 'neutral' results.

My results suggest to me that similar to what mu4 said, these tests are only really about associations that people implicitly make as a result of repeated exposure to the same narratives. While these tests may reveal underlying schemas that people have, I don't think they conclusively measure how 'racist' or 'misogynist' a person is. Rather, I feel like they indicate the degree to which people have learned and internalized the associations between different things.

Anyway, it is arguably more important to be self aware and monitor how your behave in response to your schemas than to panic about your test results. Mine did stress me out quite a bit though

I'm interested in hearing about what others think about the implications of these tests and what you think they're really measuring!