{"id":6252,"date":"2021-03-07T23:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2021-03-07T23:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:53:58","slug":"implicit-bias-test-3-9-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/07\/implicit-bias-test-3-9-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Implicit Bias Test 3-9-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was extremely surprised at the results of the implicit bias test I took. I chose to take the test about weight and was shocked at my results that showed a 31% automatic preference to thin people. I thought this number would be much lower. I credit this to my involvement in athletics. My friend group is primarily made up of division one athletes who are all in tremendous shape. I believe this heavily influenced my answers on this test. I was also surprised because I myself am moderately overweight and I have always been about body positivity and acceptance of others regardless of weight. I think that this test is extremely telling not just for myself but also others in the sense that weight is a sensitive issue that unknowingly pushes others away from each other. I think this is something that can be avoided going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was extremely surprised at the results of the implicit bias test I took. I chose to take the test about weight and was shocked at my results that showed a 31% automatic preference to thin people. I thought this number would be much lower. I credit this to my involvement in athletics. My friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","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\/6252","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\/4691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}