What do we fail to notice when our own judgement feels neutral? Ten questions on implicit bias, discrimination and the difference between an unequal outcome and proof of an unequal intention.
You make the judgement first. The research complicates it afterwards.
Start the inquiry →This is not a racism detector.
It does not tell you whether you are a good or a bad person, whether you are racist, or what your subconscious supposedly believes. No instrument here, or anywhere, can do that from ten multiple-choice answers.
It tests something more uncomfortable: how your intuitions interact with the evidence on discrimination. Some questions deliberately remove the obvious racial cue. Others ask you to separate individual intention from systemic outcome, or an unequal outcome from proof of discrimination.
The purpose is not confession. It is reflexivity.
That distinction is warranted by the research itself: reviews of implicit-bias work caution explicitly against treating implicit measures as straightforward predictors of an individual's discriminatory behaviour.
Ten questions, roughly fifteen minutes. Several have a confident-sounding answer that the evidence does not support, in both directions: the quiz is as sceptical of overclaiming as it is of denial.
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To restate what the first panel said, because it matters more at the end than at the start: this score is not a measure of your character, your bias or your politics. It records how a set of intuitions met a set of findings on one afternoon.
No single method carries this subject. Laboratory measures, field experiments, survey evidence and methodological criticism each answer a different question, and each fails at a different point. Choose one to see what it can and cannot establish.
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Summarised in my own words, from the published literature. Figures are quoted as the studies report them; anyone using this for research or training should go to the sources directly, and should note that several of these debates are genuinely unsettled.
Three inquiries with one method: make the judgement first, meet the research second, and notice what the gap between them reveals about the categories you were using.
Each inquiry in this series is written, researched and built by me: the question design, the evidence review, the writing in three languages, and the interactive build itself. They are here as working examples rather than as a portfolio flourish.