<p>Try this. [RACE</a> - The Power of an Illusion . Sorting People | PBS](<a href=“http://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_00-home.htm]RACE”>RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Sorting People | PBS)</p>
<p>I was able to correctly identify 3 of the 20 people. Although I’m African American, I didn’t identify any who consider themselves African American.</p>
<p>I’ve done it before and I still only got 4 right. I did remember one woman who was African American though she doesn’t look it!</p>
<p>Hmm, I got half the black people and completely mixed up the Asian & Indian, all the Asians I put Indian and vice versa. Didn’t get any white people!</p>
<p>I only got 6 right.</p>
<p>The resolution on those images is awful. I tried to blow them up and they became pixelated (no surprise there). Let me see someone in person and hear them talking.</p>
<p>The lighting was different for the different pictures too.</p>
<p>all the same to me. Tan. </p>
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<p>One of the most idiotic tests of all time? Quite possibly. Give someone less than 1% of the information they usually go on and accuracy goes down, yep. Also, I can’t really identify what people <em>self-identify</em> as – I can usually pick what their actual lineage is, which is what we are actually talking about with race (genetics).</p>
<p>I got 4 out of 20!</p>
<p>I got 9 right. I may have done better if I had taken more time.</p>
<p>I only got five right-one in each category.</p>
<p>It’s a bogus test since the images were tiny and they seemed to have gone out of their way to select non-stereotypical images. But you’re right, racial classifications are stupid.</p>
<p>Agree with Dad - they’re non-stereotypical. I got 4 right.</p>
<p>8–but really in some cases, I think the “self-identify” claims were pretty bogus.</p>
<p>I win this one, with a score of . . . drum roll please . . . zero correct! Admittedly, I couldn’t seem to shuffle the category assignments once they had been made. Had I known that in advance, I might have been able to score 1 or 2.</p>
<p>Most of these people are of mixed ethnic background. It’s not surprising that they’re hard to categorize. How do you think most people would do categorizing a random sample of people? Much, much better I think. So this test demonstrates the proposition that if it’s difficult to tell what race somebody is, you are likely to guess wrong.</p>
<p>I don’t think the “correct” answers tell you what race someone is - just how they identify themselves. Then you have to look at WHY they’re classifying themselves in a particular way. Maybe to be a URM for college admissions purposes, among other reasons? I suspect most of these people are of mixed backgrounds (aren’t we all), and the wrong answers were probably right answers in that the person had some of that racial background. All of that said, I don’t see why it matters, except that in this country preferences are given in some areas to people in certain racial groups and there is also discrimination against people who LOOK like they’re in certain racial groups. I look forward to the day when none of that is necessary. FWIW, I got half of them right.</p>