Candidates are asked to put images of black and white faces into categories of "good/positive" and "bad/negative" using arrow keys on the keyboard. By getting them to respond to prompts as quickly as possible, the test aims to side-step what is known as "cognitive control" - the brief, but significant time lapse needed to give an "acceptable" answer rather than an instinctive or "honest" one. The programme then automatically calculates a "response-index" that indicates a level of racial bias.This is absurd, and, actually highlights the inherent contradiction in the whole "diversity" nonsense we have today. For if someone "fails" this test and thus does not get the job then that is, surely, discrimination too. What next? re-education centres for those that "fail"?
Frankly, if I ever have to do a test like this I would just hit the keyboard randomly in protest. Last time I did a psychometric for a job application I told the HR person that I would be answering the questions randomly.
I still got the job, and when I as told the "type" of person I was, I asked then to read out the other types I could've been. Guess what, it was a bit like reading out the Gemini horoscope to a Scorpio but not telling them you were reading the wrong one. They all equally applied.
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What happens if the people who wrote the test are inherantly racist and its slanted that way how do they prove they aint take the test maybe?
From what I heard, most people "fail" these tests.
I remember when a friend in HR gave me and my friends some psychometric tests one of the most intelligent high-flyers I have ever worked with got a readout that suggested that he needed counselling and under no circumstances should be hired. Generally, I find pretending that you are James Bond works well as it provides a clear identity free of the nuances most real personalities have.
I had a psychometric test once and when I'd finished the guy gave me the resuts. He added at the end that I was the most unusual person he'd ever tested. I got the job, like you Dizzy, which probably tells us something about the testers rather than the tested.
Have you read "Blink"?
In that he explains that most people connect black and bad, white and good in those tests but no-one knows why. Even black people do it!
Ha! Could they devise a similar test to find out how many of us Welsh people hate the English (and vice versa)? Images of men in bowler hats or miner helmets, for example?
What's to stop someone answering positively to all of the faces?
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Aren't we all inherently programmed to respond more positively to people who look like ourselves? If so does that make us all racists?
If the faces are from sexy , good looking people - might that not influence the response?
Or are you supposed to be cool about the ugly.
Drifting off topic, Radio 4 did a two part documentary a while back looking at the 'diversity' industry, the conclusion being that 'diversity' training increases racism .
Try it yourself here.
Have tried out the test which David kindly linked - apparently I have a moderate anti-white bias! Being white I can only assume that this is some sort of middle-class self-loathing. This being the case am I now qualified for a post in the shadow cabinet?
My suspicion is that because this non-sense is computer/internet based it will be treated as scientific truth.
I'd be most interested in any 'proof' based on hard science.
Answer this question quickly without thought.
Is it likely that Orwell will have got 1984 wrong by:
a) 25 years?
b) 30 years?
C) 35 years?
No conferring.
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