Who do you hate?

Tolerance.org, the Southern Poverty Law Center project, has a self-quiz that’s a lot more meaningful than the usual IQ tests, color tests, spending tests, etc.

Created by psychologists at Yale University and the University of Washington, this collection of Implicit Association Tests (IAT) measures unconscious bias.

The results may be disturbing, strange, or enlightening. They may confirm prejudices you know about, or they may bring to light biases you may not have known you held. The site is full of disclaimers, but the exactness of the test is not the point: causing us to think about the automatic associations we all make is the goal of this site.

Don’t miss the rest of the site — great articles and references and news sources.

“Nice belt buckle… Hey, wait a sec!”

According to the SF Chronicle,

A belt buckle that raised suspicion with security workers at Los Angeles International Airport caused the temporary evacuation of part of a terminal area Sunday, authorities said.

The belt buckle had an image of an explosive device on it, said airport spokeswoman Gaby Pacheco.

What did the examiners think? That the belt buckle would explode because it had a picture of an explosion on it? Are they going to ban listening to “The 1812 Overture” next?