The evidence is now pretty clear that the answer to both are no answers. People's scores aren't reliable either, they might score highly biased one week and get a different result two weeks later. The ultimate measure of any tests scientific validity meta-analyses of hundreds of studies on many thousands of people find that the evidence-leaking IAT scores with behavior is weak to non-existent.
In this special episode of the podcast, Michael Shermer talks about:
- why race still matters
- why race shouldn’t matter
- racism
- BLM (Black Lives Matter), CRT (Critical Race Theory), DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
- Anti-bias training
- the Implicit Association Test and if it measures unconscious racism
- race and IQ and why such group differences are environmental and not genetic
- how we can achieve a post-race world.