I’m very doubtful about the validity of the IAT test. Their procedure requires you to declare your ethnicity prior to the testing. Depending on the answer they change the test ordering. When I declared an incorrect ethnicity, the test results claimed that I hate my own ethnic group.
While this may not be enough to invalidate the whole idea, it makes me wonder why they did not design the test in a way that would be totally insensitive to the subjects race.
Too often I see sociologists design the tests in a way that will ensure the final results.
You assume (or did you read it somewhere?) that the test ordering and test results were based on ethnicity, rather than other factors, like dice rolls and having done it before.
I’m very doubtful about the validity of the IAT test. Their procedure requires you to declare your ethnicity prior to the testing. Depending on the answer they change the test ordering. When I declared an incorrect ethnicity, the test results claimed that I hate my own ethnic group.
While this may not be enough to invalidate the whole idea, it makes me wonder why they did not design the test in a way that would be totally insensitive to the subjects race. Too often I see sociologists design the tests in a way that will ensure the final results.
You assume (or did you read it somewhere?) that the test ordering and test results were based on ethnicity, rather than other factors, like dice rolls and having done it before.