Does a test of implicit bias predict what you actually do?

Frederick Oswald, Gregory Mitchell, Hart Blanton, James Jaccard and Philip Tetlock · Predicting Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of IAT Criterion Studies, JPSP 105 · 2013

D · Failed replication

Across criterion studies, implicit measures predicted discriminatory behaviour weakly, with correlations in the region of .15 and substantial heterogeneity. The IAT measures something reliably; the inference from that something to behaviour is much weaker than its public use implies.

ProbeDistinguish two claims: I have an association, and I act on it. Note which one any given test actually measures.

Source: Frederick Oswald, Gregory Mitchell, Hart Blanton, James Jaccard and Philip Tetlock, Predicting Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of IAT Criterion Studies, JPSP 105 (2013)

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