Unconscious Bias Testing

Over the past 20 years, there has been increasing use of a psychological test to supposedly determine the degree on unconscious racial bias in white people. While overtly expressed racial attitudes of whites have changed radically for the better over the past 30-40 years, the status of Blacks in a variety of categories such as employment and income has continued to lag far behind most of the rest of the culture.

For the neo-Marxist postmodernists, the cause of these deficiencies is interpreted in terms of the oppressor/oppressed model; thus the lag in the stats of Blacks can only have one cause: White racism.  And if that racism is no longer visible and apparent, it must be subtle and subconscious – but still real, and the expected source of the oppression and cultural/economic lag.

The Banaji (Harvard) and Greenwald (Washington Univ.) Implicit Association Test (IAT) became the perfect tool that would uncover this subtle and subconscious component of White Privilege.  However, after two decades of its use – now widespread – even its creators now admit that its predictive value is missing.  Importantly, the test/retest results are dismal.  You might be a non-Racist on a day, and then two weeks later be a Racist. The reliability factor in the IAT is about 0.55, which is dismal.  Test of IQ and Big Five personality traits come out close to 0.9, both very accurate.

A very thorough article examining the value of the IAT was published in New York Magazine in early 2017, “Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job”.  Its conclusions underscore the inability to use this test to accurately determine unconscious racial bias.  And yet thousands of Whites in all kinds of organizations have been sent to retraining to eliminate their subconscious racism. However, there is some indication that this kind of retraining has the effect of increasing rather than decreasing racial attitudes.

Critique: The fundamental problem with the IAT is that it is nested within the neo-Marxist postmodern oppressor/oppressed model, when in actuality the lag in Black achievement have a multitude of causes, mostly unrelated to White racism. Near the top of the causes is Leftist racism (see the belittling of Blacks in the Left’s opposition to voter-IDs as one of many examples), and multiculturalism, which prohibits critique of Black culture, and the debilitating sense of victimhood, promoted very skillfully by the Left.

Additional videos dealing with Unconscious Bias Training may be found here.

 

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