A test everyone fails measures nothing discriminative

Evidence

From a psychological point of view there is a certain inevitability associated with the notion of implicit attitudes: anyone is accountably, potentially ‘prejudiced’, because, arguably, anyone is bound to ‘fail’ an implicit association test. If anyone is bound to fail the implicit association test, then the ‘test’ is no longer a test , but rather an instrument of subtle confi rmatory analysis. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 367

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: the epistemology of measuring instruments that guarantee everyone ‘fails’ — from IAT to heart-rate monitors to AI audits.