day in the life

http://www.livejournal.com/users/glaucon/17004.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sgnpcomix/217892.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spidergirl69/359383.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ljwin32_sema/6790.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/firecat/181175.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/phallicpregunta/11919.html

http://www.weirdness.org/herpes/
http://www.scarleteen.com/infection/hpvhsv.html
http://www.scarleteen.com/infection/risk_1.html
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mathlego.htm
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/escher/relativity.html

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https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/obesity/www/home.htm
i email the researcher... "is the order randomized in the obesity test? ie, does the test sometimes start with fat/good thin/bad and sometimes start with fat/bad thin/good, and also randomize right vs left hand? If the test is always in the same sequence for all users then i'd expect it to be biased in aggregate, because i get programmed with the first correspondence and then have to reprogram (ie slow down and make mistakes) when it gets switched."

it, very annoyingly, doesn't let me go back to see my results, or even see what a sample result would look like. i believe it said i had strong implicit preference for thin over fat, and moderate association of fat with motivated.

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

When will implicit attitudes agree with explicit attitudes?
Answer: There are two reasons why direct (explicit) and indirect (implicit) attitudes may not be the same. The simpler explanation is that a person may be unwilling to accurately report some attitude. ... The second explanation for explicit-implicit disagreement is that a person may be unable to accurately report an attitude. ...

er... i think of the implicit as "programmed into me" (~knee jerk response) and explicit as what happens when i run the implicit through the rest of my mind (~knee being consciously used to walk). implicit and explicit would agree just fine for someone who's happy being a bigot. also the question seems to imply that people will believe one way but implicitly be the opposite... not really the case for me, since i know my implicit biases (or at least some of them).

Some of them i reprogram, though i'm not as good at reprogramming as i'd like to be... maybe when LSD is legalized and available in pure form. Once every other year when i get angry i'll grumble "faggot!" about some bad driver or etc, because of my childhood programming that the word "faggot" means roughly the same as "jerk" or "bastard" or "idiot" or "person i'm angry with and want to insult". Usually it gets intercepted consciously or unconsciously before it can come out, so it's a sort of linguistic performance error.

What can I do about an automatic preference that I would rather not have?
Answer: First, bear in mind that these website IAT tests are not perfectly accurate. You may want to repeat the test before drawing even a tentative conclusion of this sort. On the other hand, it is very possible to possess an automatic preference that you would rather not have. (The researchers who developed this test are convinced that they can be described in this fashion.) One solution is to seek experiences that could undo or reverse the patterns of experience that could have created the unwanted preference. But this is not always easy to do. A more practical alternative may be to remain alert to the existence of the undesired preference, recognizing that it may intrude in unwanted fashion into your judgments and actions. Additionally, you may decide to embark on consciously planned actions that can compensate for known unconscious preferences and beliefs.

day in the life

http://www.livejournal.com/users/glaucon/17004.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sgnpcomix/217892.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spidergirl69/359383.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ljwin32_sema/6790.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/firecat/181175.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/phallicpregunta/11919.html

http://www.weirdness.org/herpes/
http://www.scarleteen.com/infection/hpvhsv.html
http://www.scarleteen.com/infection/risk_1.html
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mathlego.htm
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/escher/relativity.html

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https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/obesity/www/home.htm
i email the researcher... "is the order randomized in the obesity test? ie, does the test sometimes start with fat/good thin/bad and sometimes start with fat/bad thin/good, and also randomize right vs left hand? If the test is always in the same sequence for all users then i'd expect it to be biased in aggregate, because i get programmed with the first correspondence and then have to reprogram (ie slow down and make mistakes) when it gets switched."

it, very annoyingly, doesn't let me go back to see my results, or even see what a sample result would look like. i believe it said i had strong implicit preference for thin over fat, and moderate association of fat with motivated.

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

When will implicit attitudes agree with explicit attitudes?
Answer: There are two reasons why direct (explicit) and indirect (implicit) attitudes may not be the same. The simpler explanation is that a person may be unwilling to accurately report some attitude. ... The second explanation for explicit-implicit disagreement is that a person may be unable to accurately report an attitude. ...

er... i think of the implicit as "programmed into me" (~knee jerk response) and explicit as what happens when i run the implicit through the rest of my mind (~knee being consciously used to walk). implicit and explicit would agree just fine for someone who's happy being a bigot. also the question seems to imply that people will believe one way but implicitly be the opposite... not really the case for me, since i know my implicit biases (or at least some of them).

Some of them i reprogram, though i'm not as good at reprogramming as i'd like to be... maybe when LSD is legalized and available in pure form. Once every other year when i get angry i'll grumble "faggot!" about some bad driver or etc, because of my childhood programming that the word "faggot" means roughly the same as "jerk" or "bastard" or "idiot" or "person i'm angry with and want to insult". Usually it gets intercepted consciously or unconsciously before it can come out, so it's a sort of linguistic performance error.

What can I do about an automatic preference that I would rather not have?
Answer: First, bear in mind that these website IAT tests are not perfectly accurate. You may want to repeat the test before drawing even a tentative conclusion of this sort. On the other hand, it is very possible to possess an automatic preference that you would rather not have. (The researchers who developed this test are convinced that they can be described in this fashion.) One solution is to seek experiences that could undo or reverse the patterns of experience that could have created the unwanted preference. But this is not always easy to do. A more practical alternative may be to remain alert to the existence of the undesired preference, recognizing that it may intrude in unwanted fashion into your judgments and actions. Additionally, you may decide to embark on consciously planned actions that can compensate for known unconscious preferences and beliefs.