Project Implicit: Test to determine if you're a Racist

Is it possible that you're a racist and you don't even realize it?  That's one of the questions that's being asked by Project Implicit, a website that tries to discover our various hidden gender and racial biases hidden in our unconscious mind.

The exam is setup so that the person taking the test must give reflex responses to different kinds of visual stimuli, such as a picture of a group of women, Christians, or Americans.  They have to assign the first attribute that comes to mind, whether it be positive like smart, or negative like lazy.  The idea is to catch people's initial reaction, not something they would say after some time to think about it.

"It is very flexible as a tool, but it is restricted to measure simple associations," said Nosek.  "The huge majority of people say this is very intriguing and it doesn't mean they agree with it," he added.