Rich irony for the day: via popgadget comes news of a Harvard's Project Implicit. The project works with web interfaces to uncover biases of various kinds. Visitors can take a number of different Implicit Association Tests on subjects ranging from weight to presidential popularity. The tests are designed to measure bias and preferences (whether conscious or not).
The irony part? One of the tests, in this Harvard-based project, is the Gender-Science IAT which "often reveals a relative link between liberal arts and females and between science and males."
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