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The implicit bias survey represents an individual’s unconscious bias. I believe these results to be unreliable because there were many factors which could alter the results. Factors that could have altered my results were being right handed or left handed and the way the questions were worded. I found some of the question difficult to understand. Before I took this quiz, I expected questions on the type of people I surrounded myself with, family backgrounds and questions pertain to race and disabilities. I believe these circumstances can alter a person’s automatic biases. I was surprised to find the quiz resembled a game and contained few questions pertaining to the person background and actions. The quiz could be altered to be more accurate by adding in these factors and removing the amount of “gaming” questions. In doing …show more content…
I feel I accept everyone equally, include everyone and don’t discriminate against any differences. However, the results came out differently. My results concluded I have an automatic preference to African Americans versus European Americans and had a 33% strong automatic response for able people versus disabled people. When the results were displayed I was automatically offended the quiz stated I have a bias. However, as I thought more in-depth, I might not have been aware of my actions and had an unconscious bias. Though I may not agree with the results, I do believe the quiz could have some truth in representing a person’s unconscious bias. The “gaming” part of the quiz would determine the unconscious bias. To improve this aspect, I believe there should have been a variety of questions asked with more than one race or disabilities presented. Every day there are biases many people are not aware of. I was not aware of some biases that existed until the Global Citizenship presentation. Overall, I believe the quiz held some truth to our unconscious bias, even if we did not agree with our
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