The first test was that if I had an automatic preference for thin people than overweight people. Before you start the test it asks a couple of questions regarding your age, your political view and where you have grown up, your job occupation..etc. Then for the test it has you put pictures with words together as fast as you can. For some of the questions it was actually quite difficult for me to answer because my answer varied depending on the context. For example, here is one of the questions it asks:
Which statement best describes you?
I strongly prefer Fat people to Thin people.
I moderately prefer Fat people to Thin people.
I slightly prefer Fat people to Thin people
I like Fat People and Thin people equally.
I slightly prefer Thin people to Fat people.
I moderately prefer Thin people to Fat people.
I strongly prefer Thin people to Fat people.
The reason why I struggled with this question is because I don't know in what context they are asking. I don't know if I could answer this question in a general sense. I prefer Thin people over Fat People when it comes to dating, but making friends I don't prefer one over the other. In the end I don't think my result will be completely correct because I'm aware that this is trying to test my automatic response, so therefor I have more control and I understand the purpose of the test. I'm not sure how, but if they could find a way to test someone's automatic response without the viewer or attendant knowing it they would get more accurate results. This was my 2nd result for the test.
Here is your result:
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Thin people over Fat people.
The first result I got said that I had a little to no automatic preference for Thin people over Fat people. I think I might know why my result has changed. Recently My mom and I took out our aunt to a concert and yes she happens to be overweight. My aunt doesn't do much. She does for the majority of her time sits at home and watches TV all day. She also lives by herself at one of my grandma's houses. Well, my mom and I thought it would be a good idea to take her out to a concert because she doesn't really go out much. My entire moms side of the family has put in a lot of effort and love to help my aunt in any possible way to loose weight and to go outside of the house and get herself busy doing something productive and only a vary small portion has succeeded. This has been going on for years. We have to clean after her and she is capable of cleaning after herself, and the house gets this stench if we don't. Regardless of all that we still love her. I think though growing up visiting my aunt and living in the same house as her for a short while has given me an automatic response that all fat people are lazy and don't clean after themselves which of course is completely wrong. I think because of the recent event of taking my aunt out to this concert has brought back some memories and maybe some automatic response. This happened in between my first and second time of taking this specific test.
If any of you are interested in taking any of these test here is the link (Project Implicit)
