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The book "blindspot" has me doing quizzes.💙📚

The IAT measures associations between concepts. They ask you to enter your beliefs through a selection about topics and then give you the conclusion. 🧪

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"Disclaimer: IAT results are provided for educational purposes only."
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On the next page, you'll be asked to select an Implicit Association Test (IAT) from a list of possible topics. We'll also ask you (optionally) to report your attitudes or beliefs about these topics…
buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The general vibe for American life as a bookworm right now…
#booksky
February 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son, badly injured, is rushed to the hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I can't operate on this boy. He is my son"

How can this be?

Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony Greenwald 💙📚
February 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"The experimenters computed an “intuition index” to measure accuracy. They found that putting the participants in a good mood before the test by having them think happy thoughts more than doubled accuracy. "

Daniel Kahneman “Thinking, Fast and Slow”💙📚
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable, and that we need not come to open war. "

Henry Thoreau's "Walden”💙📚
February 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"God is alone,—but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a humble-bee."

Henry David Thoreau's "Walden”💙📚
February 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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🇸🇻 El Salvador has offered to detain deportees from the U.S., including dangerous criminals and even U.S. citizens, for a fee, as part of a deal with the Trump administration.
ground.news/article/el-s...
February 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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A great quote-

“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
— Edith Sitwell
February 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM