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Dear StarCraft II Players:
You are invited to participate in a web-based research study to investigate the validity of computer-based attitude inventories when given to frequent gamers (like you). We are recruiting current StarCraft II players from the North American server over the age of 18 that are also current U.S. residents or citizens. Of interest to us is how gamers will perform on measures designed to assess “implicit racial attitudes.” (These are attitudes people hold but cannot easily report on using standard self-report inventories.) Implicit racial attitudes are typically measured with computer programs that generate scores based on respondents’ ability to quickly and accurately categorize different concepts. Given that gamers have a lot of skill and experience at exactly this type of activity, we think that gamers may pose a real challenge to this measurement approach. You can help us by taking the test and doing the best you can – much like you do when you are playing games online. We admit this test will not be as much fun for you as StartCraft II, but your responses can help advance the science of implicit attitude measurement. If you agree to participate in this research study, you will be asked to answer questions regarding race relations in the U.S., your competitiveness and your social life. You then will be asked to complete a task designed to measure implicit racial attitudes. In all, we estimate that this study will take approximately 30 minutes to complete. As this study is web based, all study tasks can be performed via our website from your web browser. Our interest in this study is to test whether this measure "measures up" when completed by people like you -- people who react faster on computer tasks than the average person and who have better multi-tasking skills. Because we are testing validity of this measurement technique, we are not concerned with your individual attitudes nor can we give you any feedback on the meaning of your test score.
To participate in this research, visit the following link: surveysensei.uconn.edu
Thank you for considering this request.
Sincerely,
Hart Blanton, PhD
Professor
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so there will be no report of conclusions at the end of the study?
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just finished, I reccomend to whoever else takes the study to get your friend code prior to starting the survey
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There's a lot about this that makes no sense to me at all. Why in this test would being able to react faster change the outcome of the test results? Why would our computer skills make you question the viability of your test results for something like racial attitudes in the us. I know that they are looking into their own measuring techniques but do they mean for a test like this or just for their testing in general? Idk man there's just something about this whole deal that I don't like lol I think i'm just weird. Hope you all find some good information from this! GL everyone.
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Took more like 15 minutes. GL with your research.
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Im from Connecticut, definitely doing it
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I'd like to see how accurate I was T_T .
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On June 16 2013 07:43 PhoenixM1 wrote:
There's a lot about this that makes no sense to me at all. Why in this test would being able to react faster change the outcome of the test results? Why would our computer skills make you question the viability of your test results for something like racial attitudes in the us. I know that they are looking into their own measuring techniques but do they mean for a test like this or just for their testing in general? Idk man there's just something about this whole deal that I don't like lol I think i'm just weird. Hope you all find some good information from this! GL everyone.
It was explained in the post:
Implicit racial attitudes are typically measured with computer programs that generate scores based on respondents’ ability to quickly and accurately categorize different concepts.
I haven't taken the test yet, but basically your implicit attitudes are your 'gut' reactions -- before you have time to think about things like your immediate environment, political correctness, etc. Gamers, with quick reaction times, may be quicker to pull in outside info that influences their behavior, which would make it harder to measure just the implicit attitudinal response.
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Institutionalized Oppression and SC2, my two favorite things.
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What an absolute fucking waste of Connecticut residents' tax dollars.
User was temp banned for this post.
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On June 16 2013 15:09 pNRG wrote:
What an absolute fucking waste of Connecticut residents' tax dollars.
God forbid a research institution do any research.
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IATs (Implicit association test) are kinda overdone thanks to Project Implicit . Harvard has several dozen or possibly way more by now different ones they've been doing since like 1998. University of Connecticut is basically bandwagoning.
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So...take this test to see if your "Is he racist?" tests still work against people who think/calculate faster than your average joe schmoe? Sure. Why not.
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On June 16 2013 15:05 cgrinker wrote:
Institutionalized Oppression and SC2, my two favorite things.
God, you're not even joking are you.
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On June 16 2013 06:18 UConnPsych wrote:
Implicit racial attitudes are typically measured with computer programs that generate scores based on respondents’ ability to quickly and accurately categorize different concepts. Given that gamers have a lot of skill and experience at exactly this type of activity, we think that gamers may pose a real challenge to this measurement approach.
Whilst I'm not in the US I actually once discussed that with family members after I took part in an online test which worked on that principle. At the begining I got to grips with the idea and as the test went on I very quickly got a lot quicker, until at the end I was quite proud at the speed at which I was able to click the correct picture. As a result of the order of the test and the speed at which I was able to improve, the results at the end suggested I was on the upper end of implicit racism for respondents to date, which I can safely say would be a surprising result were it accurate.
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As we would expect of StarCraft II players, great questions and comments. When we analyze the results of the entire study, we will post the results and open it up for commentary. We would also like to emphasize that we've been clear about the nature of the experiment in the information page on our website and in the letter in this thread. If you have any questions about the experiment, feel free to use any of the contact email addresses from the information page. However, it is difficult to talk about our experimental hypotheses in detail in a public forum because we do not want to prejudice our results. Just to make one thing clear, this is a measurement study, not a study of people's attitudes. We are interested in seeing how reaction time measures work with people with fast reaction times. The tests we have on our website are relevant to the way reaction time measures have been used in the field of Psychology, but are otherwise irrelevant to this experiment. Thanks again to all who participated.
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Ah i normally like to take these kind of surveys.... But i am not a US citizen 
gg
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Shame im not an USA citizen or have a NA account. I kind of like participating in surveys like this :/
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the way this is worded sounds like its racist, implying how Good you feel about black or white people isnt a great way to go
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On June 17 2013 06:21 StatixEx wrote:
the way this is worded sounds like its racist, implying how Good you feel about black or white people isnt a great way to go
Why not? Some people are racist and know they are, so if they take the test and say "I don't feel good about black people" and "I feel great about white people" that will help tell if the test accurately judges them as racist.
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