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Oct. 20th, 2005 05:12 pm
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Fascinating link from [livejournal.com profile] dancingwolfgrrl, Implicit Association Test, where it attempts to sneakily figure out if you have implicit associations about various things.

Date: 2005-10-21 01:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com
They do attempt to counterbalance that by counterchanging the order of things; everyone will have a slight preference for the association they've just learned (the first one they are presented); they account for this to a certain extent.

It's an interesting, and reasonably-well documented result, that you can get cognitive dissonance (and therefore slightly slower reaction times) from grouping things you find dissimilar. Stroop tests -- like "read the *colors* of this text: " -- are an extreme example of this. Extrapolating "you find it hard to associate Rich and Black" from this is a bit more dodgy, however.

I need a brain icon.

Date: 2005-10-21 03:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leiacat.livejournal.com
I am certainly not arguing that the associations exist; I am, however, wholly unconvinced that this testset does an adequate job of compensating for other factors. What little I've seen of it, the results seem fairly bogus to me.

Date: 2005-10-21 01:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com
Yeah, they use some algorithm to compensate to some extent. Interesting anyway, even if not a totally valid measure :)

Date: 2005-10-21 03:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com
Brains!

(ok, not quite what you meant. ;)

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