Harvard IAT Race Test

Rachel Burger
You have completed the African American - European American IAT.
Your Result

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for European American compared to African American.

Thank you for your participation. Just below is a breakdown of the scores generated by others. Most respondents find it easier to associate African American with Bad and European American with Good compared to the reverse.

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My first test taken at the beginning of the semester showed that I have a slight automatic preference to European American than African American. This result did not surprise me in the least for a number of reasons. The main reason would be that I am Caucasian and I grew up in a dominantly white school and neighborhood. It also did not surprise me that the percentages of people who have taken the test have had most of their results depicted as having a strong automatic preference to White people. If you think about the world today and what you see in the media it becomes almost painfully obvious. Obvious that the media whether it tries to or not has most white people playing the role of hero and the black person playing the role of villain or side character. Though this first statement is not completely true, one can understand that the media is dominantly saturated with white people. This would cause most people’s minds to have an automatic preference to white rather than black, though one should keep in mind that this test is not completely accurate.