TAKE THIS TEST! Harvard's "Project Implicit" tells you which candidate you implicitly support.

[Maddy McCall]

It's an Implicit Association Test. Please try it and report back with the rank of the candidates as the test results demonstrate. You get results at the end of the test...you don't have to sign up with email and all that.


From the website:



Featured Task: Presidential Candidates IAT

It is well known that people don't always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.

We will ask you (optionally) to report your attitudes toward or beliefs about these topics, and provide some general information about yourself. These demonstrations should be more valuable if you have also tried to describe your self-understanding of the characteristic that the IAT is designed to measure. Also, a variety of factors may influence your IAT performance. The score is provided for entertainment purposes only.

Data exchanged with this site are protected by SSL encryption, and no personally identifying information is collected. IP addresses are routinely recorded, but are completely confidential.

Important disclaimer: In reporting to you results of any IAT that you take, we will mention possible interpretations that have a basis in research done at the University of Washington, University of Virginia, Harvard University, and Yale University. However, these Universities, as well as the individual researchers who have contributed to this site, make no claim for the validity of these suggested interpretations. If you are unprepared to encounter interpretations that you might find objectionable, please do not proceed further. You may prefer to examine general information about the IAT before deciding whether or not to proceed.

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Instructions (nutshell version).

After you enter your info, you'll start the test.

There are nine segments to the test. Before you begin each segment, read the screen carefully. It will tell you to press E for no, and I for yes, and spacebar to go to the next page. You are to do this test as quickly as possible without stopping to "think" about each response.

Make sure to read the first page of each segment, because it tells you which candidate is to be associated with yes and good, and which is to be associated with no.

Their instructions:

The YES-NO Task

In the YES-NO task, you will see items, presented one at a time.

Two "YES" categories will be displayed at the top half of the screen.

The first "YES" category is a presidential candidate, represented by face images.
The second "YES" category is always 'Good', represented by four words.

When items belonging to either of the two "Yes" categories appear, press "I" (the YES key).
Press "E" (the "NO" key) for any item not in either of the two "YES" categories.
We record the time to your pressing the correct key for the presented image or word.

If you press an incorrect key you will see a red "X". Rapidly correct the error by pressing the other key.

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If you've read all this, click here to start!

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/featuredtask.html

Please report back with the rank of the candidates, 1. 2. 3.

Have fun!

[Maddy McCall]

1. My honest-to-god results:

1. Clinton way at top.
2. Obama, about midway down.
3. McCain, just a smidget above bottom.

[tekisui]

41. Mine:

Your Implicit Preference Scale

↑
More
Positive

Obama


Clinton McCain


More
Negative
↓

[BlueIdaho]

77. No surprise - Obama at top, Clinton just above middle, McCain rock bottom nt.

[bunnies]

2. Mine:

1. Obama at the top
2. Clinton half way down
3. McCain at the bottom


wish they had a graphic to post!

[XemaSab]

3. Thanks for the test!

It's hard to verbally describe the results, but Obama got about an "8", McCain got about a "4", and Hillary got about a "3" for me. :P

[Maddy McCall]

4. It's a fun test, isn't it!

I hope more people take it!

[XemaSab]

6. I've taken some of their other tests...

Good times.

[WA98296]

5. Obama on Top, Clinton down a long way, McCain near bottom

[Beregond2]

7. Results

Obama at top, McCain in the middle, Clinton at the bottom. That is a surprise. I would have thought Clinton would have been in the middle.

[Greyskye]

8. All the way through, only to get this:

Oops, an error occurred

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

If you were trying to access one of the tests, please click on this demonstration link. If this does not work, your browser may be misconfigured. Delete your cache and cookies and try again. Another approach is to try an alternative browser on your system, other than the one you are using. For example, internet explorer users can try the Firefox browser and vice versa. Or you can consider other browsers such as Safari or Opera.

A common error is not having Adobe Flash Player installed, or having a faulty version.

This Adobe support page may also be helpful in resolving problems.

If you started a study and were away from your computer for more than 15 minutes, the study times out and you may receive an error. If this is the case, you can try again.

If errors persist, contact us through the technical error report page. Please provide your email address so that we can work with you to fix the problem.

Project Implicit Home


Bah humbug. :( (Just for general info, I'm using Firefox)

[Maddy McCall]

9. I'm sorry.

:(

[Greyskye]

10. Not your fault.

It looks like a cool concept. Maybe I'll try again later in the afternoon.

[americanstranger]

13. Yep, I got that too.

Another FF user here.

Thanks anyway, Maddy! I gave it my best shot!

- as

[americanstranger]

16. Hm.. I guess I'm on someone's iggy list.

Ah, well.

- as

[Maddy McCall]

18. You're not!

I'm not ignoring you. I'm sorry it didn't work for you.

:(

[americanstranger]

23. I'm not? That's good news!

I've replied to your posts before (because I enjoy them) and there have been times I haven't seen a response.

Chalk it up to things getting lost in the shuffle, I guess.

At any rate, glad you're not ignoring me. That brightens my day (that's not sarcastic, either).

- as

[hfojvt]

40. I bet he/she is on somebody's ignore list, even if not on yours

after all, "people are strange, when you're a stranger."

[americanstranger]

59. And they don't come any stranger than me.

Heh.

- as

[Greyskye]

19. Not on mine either

I cleared it out during the great DU 'boycott', and never bothered populating it again.

[americanstranger]

24. Does that mean I was?

Hope not.

- as

[Greyskye]

26. LOL, no.

It was almost exclusively populated with recently joined folks who posted content free hit and run attacks. :hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

21. FF user here

and it worked for me.

[Taxmyth]

90. Clinton at the top

Both McCain and Obama tied with each other much farther down.

[Barack_America]

11. Obama=tippy-top, Clinton=dead center (oh the irony)...

McCain=scroll down, down to see.

[quantass]

12. Obama: (way at top), Clinton (way down below mid), McCain (just below Clinton)

[BalancedGoat]

14. Results

Obama would be around a 7 or an 8. Clinton and McCain were perfectly tied at around 4.

[TheDoorbellRang]

15. Interesting. My results

1. Obama at very top
2. Clinton dead center
3. McCain at very bottom

Thanks, Maddy. Quite entertaining.:hi:

[hfojvt]

17. Obama, Clinton, McCain

Just to be safe, I lied about the end survey, saying I was a Republican likely to vote for Ron Paul and that I was a business major living in Minneapolis. I didn't want to tell them I am an Obama supporter and have them echo that back.

[Flabbergasted]

37. Obama7, Clinton 5, McCain 3

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

20. Interesting

as Clinton/Obama were virtually tied close to the top, and McCain WAAAAYYYY down at the bottom.

[mckeown1128]

22. Interesting...

Clinton
Obama
McCain

all evenly spaced.

[kwyjibo]

80. weird

Clinton and Obama tied, near middle... McCain a few steps below.

[DarienComp]

25. Obama at the top.. Clinton, McCain even.

I will still vote for Clinton if she is the nominee.

[mohc]

27. Clinton, Obama, McCain

All very close to the top.

[Solon]

28. All three of them close to the center on the same level...

So, implicitly, don't have a preference.

[BalancedGoat]

33. Try it again.

I took it a few times. The first time I closed it before I meant to. The second time the window did some weird refresh thing while I was filling out the survey and the results showed all three dead even in the center. The third time showed the results I post previously, which fell in line with how I remember the first one. I'm left to assume that the second time was some sort of glitch or something.

[Solon]

34. I did, Obama edged out the other two, barely, still clustered around the center though.

The thing that's messed up is the word associations, simply because I don't associate either the negatives or the positives with any candidate, they were too personal/emotional. I just don't feel strongly about any of them, the only thing I care about is policy.

[SeaLyons]

29. My results...

Clinton at top, McCain towards bottom, Obama at the bottom.

[romana]

30. My results

Clinton highly positive
McCain very negative
Obama just below McCain ><

I would never vote for McCain, but WILL vote for Obama if he is the nominee. I apparently, however, dislike him slightly more than McCain. >.>

[New Earth]

31. Am I the only idiot who does not understand the instructions

worth a damn? :wtf: :(

[BalancedGoat]

35. I didn't understand until it actually started.

The test involves 9 series of pictures and words. "E" is bad, "I" is good. In each series, one candidate is selected as "bad" and one is selected as "good" (not by the user). They also include a number of words that are either positive or negative. The object is to correctly assign each picture or word as "good" or "bad" using "E" or "I" as quickly as possible.

The test is based on the premise that a person will have more trouble (go slower of make more mistakes) during the series in which the candidates that they like are supposed to be placed in the "bad" group.

Not sure if that explaination is any better, but I tried.

[dysfunctional press]

60. i didn't understand it even after it started...

:shrug:

it made absolutely no sense to me-
but i am pretty med'ed up at the moment.

[PoliticalAmazon]

36. No, you're not alone. The test itself made even less sense. n/t

[flowomo]

57. no, you just don't understand what it's doing... IATs very common

the speed of answering bypasses your "I wish I was" filter and gets to your sub-conscious reactions.

[Rincewind]

32. results

I'm using Firefox, my results are: Clinton at the top, Obama a little below Clinton, and McCain way, way, down near the bottom.

[Chalco]

38. Clinton, Obama, McCain nt

[izzybeans]

39. Obama almost at the top, Clinton 3/4 of the way up,

Mccain almost at the very bottom.

[Madam Mossfern]

42. Holy cow!!!

Obama at the tippy top

McCain near the bottom

Hillary below McCain?????

Disclaimer: I will vote for Hillary if she is the party's nominee.

[kwenu]

43. Don't need a damn test. It's OBAMA!!!

[Firespirit]

44. I think there is something wrong with me

All three were very close together, partially overlapping.

I didn't make any mistakes and hit the keys at the same speed throughout. There was actually a little rhythm going in my head by the end of it, from the key tapping, that made it easy. Maybe it's that.

[struck_dumb]

45. test too hard for one stuck_dumb :(

[XemaSab]

46. Kick!

:P

[Viking12]

47. My results

On a 1 to 10 scale

Obama at 8
McCain at 4
Clinton at 3

Now I know why my wife asks about the facial expression I make everytime she appears on the tube.

[cornermouse]

48. My bad.

Got bored. Started clicking keys just to make it move on. Lied about my age and my place of residence. Result was no result. My bad.
:P

[PeaceNikki]

49. Wow! That was pretty cool!

:thumbsup:

[Levgreee]

50. Clinton-Obama-McCain

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Clinton
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Obama
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McCain
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[cornermouse]

51. Redo.

Clinton first, followed a little ways down by Obama and McCain all the way


d


o


w


n


at the bottom.

I looked at the results and realized I'd probably like Obama better if his supporters weren't so awful.

[LWolf]

52. "There were too many errors made to determine a result."

Probably because I was really confused about what I was saying "yes" and "no" to; the new picture, or the heading (hillary or good, etc.,) and if I was supposed to use the "no" keys for specific things, and "yes" key for other specific things, what the hell does "yes" and "no" mean?

[XemaSab]

65. "Yes" means that it's part of the assigned group. "No" means it's part of a different group.

So for example, Obama, Love, Pleasure, and so on are the "IN" group.... McCain, Hate, and Anger are part of the "OUT" group.

You click YES when something in the IN group appears on the screen, you click NO when something in the OUT group appears on the screen.

[LWolf]

67. What if the group itself doesn't match?

For example, "McCain and good."

[XemaSab]

68. Well that's what they're testing

If grouping "McCain" and "pleasure" together makes no sense, the results will reflect that. If grouping "Obama" and "agony" together don't make any sense, the results will reflect that too. But if grouping "Hillary" and "love" together make sense, then Hillary will come out well.

That's sort of the idea of the test. :P

[LWolf]

84. of course, lol.

:silly:

When I get a group like "McCain and Good," and then a picture of Obama and/or the words "evil" or "happy," I'm not sure if I'm clicking for the picture or word, or the misleading title. It also won't let me click "no" for HRC in a particular "group," for example if I already clicked "no" for one of the other candidates.

[LisaM]

53. Interesting!

It's funny how you can keep seeing the same word or image, and "accidentally" press a different key the third time or so.

Mine came out with Hillary pretty near the top, a large gap with Obama about a third from the bottom, and McCain about a tenth from the bottom.

[Greyskye]

54. Worked this time - Obama - Hillary - McCain

Used IE this time.

[Lisa0825]

61. Mine looks almost exactly like yours!

I am curious to know if anyone got results ooposite of what they thought they would for the top spot.

That was fun, once I figured it out. I didn't quite get it the first time I started, so I restarted the test once the lightbulb went on! LOL

[flowomo]

55. if you want to know more about IATs... read Malcolm Gladwell's...

"Blink". There is a whole chapter about it, focused on unconscious racism. It's important to understand the IAT gets at "hidden" feelings, often feelings you reject consciously, such as biases you are trying to overcome. Gladwell himself was distubed at the results he got.

[XemaSab]

66. They have other tests on the Harvard site that measure racism and other things

It's good times.

[tammywammy]

56. Obama, Clinton, McCain

Obama at the top, Clinton in the middle and McCain at the bottom.

[ficus1]

58. Clinton/Obama/McCain all in the middle

I guess I am completely objective.

[Greyskye]

64. Or you went at a steady pace, slow enough not to make any mistakes.

I believe that would place them all in the middle as well.

[Firespirit]

81. It does. The same thing happened to me.

I saw it as a game of skill, nothing to get emotional about. I was tapping my foot to my keystrokes at the end.

You old/young enough to remember the late 80s electronic toy, called Simon? It gave you a pattern to remember and play back, and you had to hit the buttons at a relatively constant speed to beat it, because it counted slowness against you. I loved that thing. This quiz reminded me of it.

(Yay Aspies. :P)

[Spider Jerusalem]

62. On a 1-10 scale:

Obama, about 8, Clinton about 4, McCain about 3.

[goletian]

63. i personally think these tests are inconclusive.

but i got

1. obama
2. clinton
3. mccain

all close to center.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

69. Neat Test, Thanks!

1. Obama
2. Clinton
3. McCain (yuck!)

[MonkeyFunk]

70. I'm too good at following directions, I guess

I had Obama and McCain even tied right in the middle, and Hillary one spot right above them.

[Lucky 13]

71. Hey Maddy, it was off for me... and not just on this test. Thoughts?

They had my candidates:
1. Clinton
2. Obama
3. McCain
Well... it got that last one right.

I also took the sexuality quiz and it said I had a slight preference for heterosexual people over homosexual people. Strange. I'm gay, the majority of my friends are gay... I honestly don't think I favor heteros over gays. I'd LIKE to think it was equal. But if I'm trying to be HONEST with myself, I think I favor gays slightly. You know, we have that secret wink and nod thing going on.

It's weird. Perhaps I am subconsciously conflicted. Maddy, do you think am I secretly a hetero preferring Clinton supporter instead of a homo preferring Obama supporter? Or am I part of the small percentage that this test doesn't work for?

[Maddy McCall]

76. Hmmmm....

Maybe the Larry Sinclair story is throwing you off.

:shrug:

:)

[Lucky 13]

78. Or maybe I'm secretly homophobic...

...and self-hating ergo, my subconscious favors the candidate that is worst for me - Hillary.

:shrug:
:)

[Lucky 13]

79. PS - I like not arguing with you for once.

I can't wait till this is all over and we can all just be Democrats again.

I miss some of you guys. Others not so much. But I have a feeling you're pretty entertaining.

[Maddy McCall]

83. LOL--it's gonna be ok.

We all will make it through this mess.

:D

[AX10]

72. kick

[goodgd_yall]

73. Clinton 1, Obama way down, but a 2, McCain at the bottom

I found it interesting to have Obama further down than I would have thought. As someone said upthread, I think the negativity comes more from his supporters than Obama himself.

[Danger Mouse]

74. Obama 1 HRC 2 McCain Distant 3

:)

[Johnny__Motown]

75. If we turn the scale into a percentage.. top to bottom. Obama 85%- Clinton 65%- McCain 30%

It seems about right to me. I am strong Obama supporter, but not a "cultist". I don't like Hillary but will vote for her in the GE assuming she does not break any rules to gain the nomination. McCain won't get my vote but I don't really dislike the guy.

[quakerboy]

82. took it thrice.

The first time may have been skewed because the first frame I didn't read very well, and just hit no repeatedly whenever I saw McCain, hoping to prove my point. That gave me Obama at about 55%, with Hillary and McCain tied at about 45%.

The second round I did it proper, and Obama about 66%, Hillary at 50%, and McCain at about 20%

The third time I was bored, so I made them all line up at 50% together. Now thats Unity.

[LWolf]

85. It worked this time,

when I finally figured out that I needed to attempt to ignore the pictures and words themselves and just match them to given categories.

Results:

HRC, Obama, McCain.

None of them were in the top half; HRC in the middle, Obama and McCain close together about 1.5 inches below her.

[LisaL]

86. I did it twice.

The first time, I got 1.Clinton, 2. Obama, 3. McCain,
the second time I got 1. Clinton, 2, McCain, 3. Obama.
I guess I dislike Obama and McCain about equally.

[Lyric]

87. Clinton way at the top, Obama and McCain way at the bottom.

Weird--in mine, Obama was actually just slightly lower than McCain. Of course I'd never vote for McCain, and will of course vote for whoever the Dem nominee is. I think it's just that I don't hear as much "negative" stuff about McCain lately, because nobody here seems to care much about criticizing *him* as opposed to our two Dem candidates.

[Mother Of Four]

88. Heres mine...

Obama about a 9.5 (Way top)

McCain ( :scared: ) About a 5 on the line

Clinton about a 1.5


Uhm :yoiks:


Thanks for the test, It was enlightening.

[not_too_L8]

89. mine

Obama near the top


Clinton a little below halfway

McCain closer to the bottom

[busymom]

91. Clearly an IQ test for me

I don't have the foggiest idea of what the hell I was supposed to be doing.

So...on the top were the words for the president and below was a picture and I was supposed to click I or E for yes or no? On the top, every single time it said "Barack Obama" and "Good" and then below a picture would come up of either BO or Clinton.

Totally confusing waste of my time.

I'll just tell you that I support Hillary....Clearly, I should have added rum to my morning coffee.

[LisaL]

93. You get a name on top. Let's say you got Hillary.

The photo or words show on the bottom.
If the name is Hillary, when Hillary's photo shows up, you are supposed to hit I. If it's Obama's or McCain's photo, you are supposed to hit E.
If the words are good, you are supposed to hit I. If the words are negative, you are supposed to hit E.
So, you are supposed to hit I to match candidate's name with a candidate's photo, and candidate's name with a good word about the candidate.

[LisaL]

92. Did it again twice. Clinton way on top. Then Obama, then McCain.

Maybe there is something to this test.