Blog #3 Reflection on Quizzes

After taking these three quizzes, I found my results to be accurate, but also very appalling. The first quiz I took was on age. This quiz showed me pictures of old and young people and I was asked to press a specific key when the faces showed up. Then, they added in good and bad words to make it more difficult. The exercise kept changing which made it very challenging to adapt to. The result of my quiz was that I prefer young people over old people. I thought this was very strange because I do not favor one over the other, I think of everyone equally. My score of a 35% showed that I have a strong automatic preference for young people over old people. I do not think this quiz was very accurate and I did not like my results. I feel very content with both age groups and do not have anything against one. Sometimes, I enjoy hanging out with my grandparents over my friends because I always learn something new and exciting when I’m with them. Stories and things that I have never heard before that make me look at like in a new perspective. I think I received this score because I am a young adult, but my score should really have been that I equally enjoy both groups. I think that young kids do not interact much with old people because they would rather hang with people of the same age group. I know that I have experienced this before when I wanted to go out with my friends and not stay home with my 94-year-old grandma. I later ended up deciding to stay home wit her and play games because you do not know how much time she has left, so spend it wisely. I see some people today care for elderly people whereas others do not care what happens to the person and I just think that is wrong. Although, my result was that I favor young people, but I think this is incorrect. At the beginning of the quiz, they asked us a few questions pertaining to old and young people, and I chose that I favor them equally. My results did not agree with this answer and I am surprised with the outcome.

The second quiz I took was over weight. This quiz tested me on my ability to categorize fat people to thin people. Then it also asked me to press a key for good and bad words. There were multiple exercises to this quiz, but I took the least amount of time on this one. After taking this quiz my results showed that I prefer thin people to fat people. I was very shocked by these results because I do not put down one group over the other. My score of a 27% showed that I have a moderate automatic preference for thin people over fat people.  These results I believe are false because I do not judge others just on their appearance. I am not sure as to why my results were this way but I am thoroughly mad with the outcome. I think that in our society today people do judge those that are overweight and criticize them until they are hurt. I think this is wrong and what you should really do is just help the person out and give them some advice. They may have a story behind why they are like that but you are judging them without even knowing. I have experienced this in my life before when girls on my basketball team in high school would be like “that girl is fat, so she is slow, we can win this now.” Or them saying that they wanted to guard that girl so it was less work on them. Although, those teammates did get scored on by that girl since they did not consider her athletic ability. All of us are equal, it does not matter how much we weigh or what we look like, and god made all of us the same. I am thoroughly surprised by my answers and do not support the results of this quiz.

The last quiz I took was on black and white people plus weapons and harmless objects. I had a tough time with this quiz because some of the weapons looked like harmless objects. I struggled to get these ones correct so this quiz took me the longest to complete. My results showed that I prefer black people with weapons compared to white people. I was very shocked by this because I do not favor weapons at all and I do not support one race over the other either. My score of a 30% showed that I have a moderate automatic association of blacks with weapons and whites with harmless objects. I think I got these results because I was maybe thinking of Black Americans having weapons over White Americans. This is not right because you see white people with weapons all the time too. In our society, I have experienced a young adult around my age with a deadly weapon. TJ Lane of Chardon Ohio did have a gun and shot three innocent students one day at school. My school was fairly close to Chardon High School, so I am very familiar with this incident. This is an event where a white person is charged with the possession of this object. Thus, this could also happen with a black person, but I am just telling you of an experience where it could be relevant for a white person too. I do not like the results of this quiz because I do not judge those on their skin color. I have many friends of both races and there is nothing different about any of them. We all hang out together and there is not one bit of awkwardness associated with our interactions. I think my score should have been I neither prefer black or white people, but equally prefer both groups.

After taking all three of these quizzes, I was shocked to see my results and I did not agree with them. This quiz did not change how I view others in our world today, but it was very eye opening to what experiences I have viewed in today’s world. I did not like taking these quizzes and I would not suggest anyone to take them in the future. They actually just made me very mad because a couple of answers cannot tell whom what group you favor the most. It all just seems surreal.