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Week2 Hidden Bias: LaurenSage Browning

I found the categorization of black and white people based on pictures and the negative and positive words as insufficient in accurately testing for a racial bias. My reasoning for this is the large amounts of variables that are not controlled in this testing. Some such variables include: vision, reaction time, past connotation with words, perceived understanding of words, and fine motor skills, as well as hand eye coordination. I do not thing sorting images and words on a computer is an accurate representation of bias testing. I think this is far too messy of an equation. I think almost everyone (if not everyone) has some degree of racial bias, but I do not think this test can accurately test for this, because it is not realistic and involves too many other factors. For example, a computer skilled, fact driven, well sighted person, could potentially score no racial bias on this, even if they in fact had a high racial bias. The result, faulty data.

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