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[jinian]

I found it interesting that tolerance.org didn't use any women's names in the hidden bias test that I took this morning. Maybe most people don't know when a woman's name sounds like it's from Arabic as much as they do for a man's? I suppose they might not have wanted to complicate the test results with strange attitudes someone might have about different sexes.

On a somewhat related note, these pictures got me as close to crying as I've been over anything in September or after. Bad stuff just makes me shut the huge iron gates, usually, but good stuff can get to me.

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

I took that hidden bias test too, largely because I saw your link to it. I was a little miffed that it gave me a 20% pro-Arab bias when I think all I did was recognize the difference between Arab and non-Arab names. (Yeah, as a physicist I work with a whole lot of middle eastern men.) I was also curious about the complete lack of women's names in the quiz too, but shrugged it all off as a poorly constructed test.

Thanks for the link to the pictures. I think I liked the balloon seller most of all, just for the whimsey of that. But they're all moving.