{"id":6306,"date":"2021-03-08T17:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:13:28","slug":"implicit-bias-test-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/08\/implicit-bias-test-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Implicit Bias Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to take the Implicit Bias Test that measured my implicit bias for exercise. The end result was that I associated exercise with “good,” which is honestly what I figured. However, what surprised me was the word association part that asked me to sort particular words by clicking “i” and “e” on my keyboard. I was supposed to hit “i” if a word reminded me of having to do with exercise and the words “good” and “bad”, and “e” if it didn’t. If I got it wrong, I got a big old red “x” for incorrect. I found myself often hitting “e” when the word “sitting” came up, associating it with bad. This was incorrect, of course, because sitting doesn’t have anything to do with being inherently bad or anything necessarily to do with exercise. It made me realize that I’ve been taught that being still, sitting, and not doing something constantly was automatically “bad” because I was being lazy. I’ve been raised to believe that\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>doing something is doing something\u00a0bad,\u00a0<\/em>which of course isn’t true and there are plenty of benefits to things like meditation and personal reflection.<\/p>\n

Overall, I think the exercise was really interesting. To be honest, I had no idea how the test was going to gauge my bias towards exercise, but after it gave me my results and talked about how it timed me, it all made a lot more sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to take the Implicit Bias Test that measured my implicit bias for exercise. The end result was that I associated exercise with “good,” which is honestly what I figured. However, what surprised me was the word association part that asked me to sort particular words by clicking “i” and “e” on my keyboard. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6306","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\/6306","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\/4585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}