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What about the arts?
Do the Arts Matter? asks Helen Losse of this race for POTUS, and she provides a nice list each candidate’s position on public funding and support for the arts.
Meanwhile, I have indulged myself in Harvard’s Implicit Association Test for Presidential candidates:
It is well known that people don’t always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.
If I had to describe the test, I’d say it measures how much difficulty you have in associating photos of the various candidates with concepts of good. It’s done in pairs, so that, for example, in one set you are required to associate John McCain with “good” and Barack Obama with “bad,” regardless of how you actually feel about these two men.
I found it more difficult to make the required choices the longer I worked at it.
Results for me: Given a continuum positive to negative, my associations with Hillary Clinton are strongly positive, with Barack Obama just about neutral, and with McCain & Huckabee, tied at mid-range negative.
I guess that’s my endorsement made.
Big surprise, huh?
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