Radio 4 last weekend: racial prejudice programe

[leftie]

Did anyone catch the programe on Radio 4 last weekend anbout detecting racial prejudice by timing responses to ethnic faces and certain words? I have searched the BBC web site to no avail. I missed it but I want to know which programme it was to get a transcript or download.

It is interesting stuff: that you can measure someone's political persuassion and ..isms (sexism, racism, homophobia etc) by looking at the differences in their response times to associating 'good' and 'bad' words with faces from different groups (theoretical background is here www.implicitly.biz and then following the link to the Harvard site).


I am hoping to trial a similar test shortly, possibly for staff selection and management development and could kick myself that I missed the programme.

[cymtriks]

Watch out! The thought police are about!

Why would anyone want to know how someone feels? If someone deals well with a customer that he or she secretly despises then who cares?

The scary thing is that soon some idiot will start to assume that the answers give a de facto result as opposed to an indication. I don't like some people. If any of those pictures reminds me off them then god knows what thought crime I might get accused of.

[JagLover]

leftie said:

I am hoping to trial a similar test shortly, possibly for staff selection and management development and could kick myself that I missed the programme.

Perhaps your log in name does not go far enough, might I suggest 'Stalinist'

[leftie]

JagLover said:

leftie said: I am hoping to trial a similar test shortly, possibly for staff selection and management development and could kick myself that I missed the programme. Perhaps your log in name does not go far enough, might I suggest 'Stalinist'

I like to think so