See No Bias

This is a great article about how most Americans believe that they are not biased, yet how a test shows that most Americans are clearly biased. Some of the test results were interesting, such as how nearly 50% of blacks favor whites over blacks and how 38% of homosexuals favor straight people over gay people.

Since it's quite long, I'll just post the link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Jan21.html

It may require registration, but it's a great read.

Ooh, that is/was interesting. Psychological tests are interesting...as are statistics

Haha, I took that exact test for a class. But I wouldn't put too much faith into it. There were lots of times where they couldn't get an accurate reading. Too many mistakes to register the score. In any case, they relate words to certain affiliations. I showed a severe bias on one of the tests (I don't recall which one) because I associated a friend's screenname (agony) to be a "good" thing instead of a bad and that gave false positives. So... only if you were to register what each word means to each person would you get straight answers. And that is much too complicated. I don't trust tests to measure bias; there are just too many uncertain factors to the human brain.