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Throughout present day society, there are many biases, some of them are subconscious decisions molded by a person’s society. In an attempt to identify these subconscious preferences researchers at Harvard created Project Implicit. Project Implicit uses images and words associated with a certain category and it locates biases based on the reaction time to matching the key details. For this paper, I took three Implicit Association Tests, IATs, each identifying three traits that my subconscious had to offer. The three IATs that I took were to determine my preference towards straight or gay people, young or old people, and dark or light-skinned people. In a paper I will identify and reflect on the results that I received from the tests, I will then discuss the level of cultural sensitivity I am currently operating on, and discuss the importance of intercultursal sensitivity as a leader of character. …show more content…

This IAT established that I have a moderate automatic preference for gay people compared to straight people. I am satisfied to say that these results did not actually surprise me. However, I was slightly off put that the test determined that I was more preferential to Gay people. While I am generally open-minded and I do not mind being around people of a different sexuality, it was a little strange to see that the test determined that I prefer to be around Gay people, especially when many of my close friends are straight. While the test were generally accurate, the results did not really hold much significance to me. It does however reflect that the society, which I was raised in, did not discriminate against

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