I took the Gender-Science test and was a little surprised by the results. I got a strong automatic association for male with liberal arts and female with science. According to other people’s results, I’m in the 1%, and I really thought that I would have an implicit bias towards the opposite. In trying to figure out why I got what I did, it could be because I’ve taken several philosophy and literature courses both here and in high school, and I really can’t remember ever reading texts from a female author. When it comes to STEM, my schools have always done a good job of encouraging girls to go into the sciences, so maybe my biases have changed from that. Although I think I do normally associate males with things like math and engineering, I’ve been scarred (harsh word but true) so much from those philosophy and literature courses that I may just associate liberal arts with the male authors I had to read.
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it is interesting how implicit biases impact the way we are in social intereactions due to things that we dont even think we believe!
That is such an interesting result that I wouldn’t expect either! As Sophia W. mentions in her above post, it makes me wonder if these implicit bias tests are effective enough, or if we need to rethink the way we test implicit associations and stereotypes? Regardless, I admire that you may have biases leading to these results as a result of your upbringing in high school and your experience with male-dominant philosophy and literature.