Sunday, July 5, 2015

Are these tests tell who you are? Implicit Association Test VS Political Compass Test

Have you ever done any test about your personality or what career is best for you? If you did, what was the result and is it true about who you are? and if you like this kind of test maybe you should check out the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and Political Compass Test (PCT).
https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

The IAT test is a test that shows you photos of different color skin people and positive or negative words for you to match on the instant that you see them.  The test claim to shows the test takers association with skin tone and others.


Another test that I took was the Political compass test. The PCT, shows statements about political, economics, social issues etc. Test takers have to choose the scale of strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree related to the statements given. After you take the test it will show where you political status lies.

I took the Skin-tone and Gender-career tests for the IAT. My results for the Skin-tone test said that I am slightly prefer light skin over dark skin. While the Gender-career test said that I think of men with career and women with family. The PCT results suggest that I'm a slight libertarian left my spot lies exactly where Nelson Mandela is.  

I think the Skin-tone and Gender-career tests are true. I've never really notice my bias against dark skin people. Even though I'm a little bit dark myself but I grew up in a light skin family so I consider myself white. In my family we've been taught that women are destine to be a house wife, so when you grow up you have your biggest goal is to marry a good husband. Although both my parents work, but still the person who is handling everything to keep the house running is my mother. 

I've never pay much attention to political before I took this class, so I have no idea if the PCT really tells what I want our politics to be like. We live in an authoritarian country and most of my classmate results lies in the Authoritarian left. However I am a Libertarian left, maybe because I don't like how the politics is operates in my country.

The first test shows that I am a very conservative person, but the second test suggest that I am a liberal. I think the IAT is showing who I am and what I think at the moment and the PCT is what I expect the future to be. Do these tests really tells who you are? or it just a statistics. Please don't forget to comment below. 

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