After Reading the ‘Science of Us’ Blog Post “Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job”
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-tool-isnt-up-to-the-job.html
and watching the video on Internal Validity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NQHeI8GD54
- Would you be comfortable with taking the IAT and having that be a predictor of your propensity to commit acts of racial bias?
- What other co-founding factors must you take into account when trying to predict/measure individual racial bias?
- What does this tell you about the importance of understanding the validity and reliability of instruments researchers utilized in their research to measure individual behavior or beliefs?
- What does this have to do with Validity? What is the IAT actually measuring?
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