I was not largely surprised by my results from the IAT test that I took. This was not the first time that I had taken one of these tests so I tried to take a different one. The test that I took was the skin color test and my results did not surprise me much. I showed a slight preference for light skin which I think especially considered the recent events of the past year is something that I have given much more thought to recently. Obviously I would prefer if I showed no preference and had no implicit bias but that is simply not the reality of the world we live in. I acknowledge that I grew up in a very white area with little diversity and was exposed to diversity but never in my day to day life. I think that this made a bit naive in the way that I viewed issues of skin color and I think that implicit bias tests like this help to recognize and work to override these mind bugs that have developed. Ultimately, while I am not surprised by my results, I hope that I can continue to work to counter act my implicit biases and remove them from my decision making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was not largely surprised by my results from the IAT test that I took. This was not the first time that I had taken one of these tests so I tried to take a different one. The test that I took was the skin color test and my results did not surprise me much. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}