IAT scores fluctuate with one’s current context and are better measures of biases held by places than biases held within minds.

Evidence

The Implicit Association Test (American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Daedalus))

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: To what extent does environmental visual adaptation (e.g., living in extreme high- or low-chroma landscapes) shift an individual’s implicit cognitive associations between achromatic light and moral valence?; IAT scores can be changed by the ambiguous attribute response labels of an unrelated preceding mindset task, so observed change may reflect the measure rather than the attitude. — Malleability of Attitudes or Malleability of the IAT?; Implicit associations reflected in the IAT are influenced by societal messages, life experiences, context, and other environmental factors. — About the IAT – Project Implicit (+1 more)

Related

• Implicit associations reflected in the IAT are influenced by societal messages, life experiences, context, and other environmental factors. (similarity 0.94)
• IAT scores can be changed by the ambiguous attribute response labels of an unrelated preceding mindset task, so observed change may reflect the measure rather than the attitude. (similarity 0.92)
• The IAT as conventionally implemented is open to multiple interpretations and can provide contextually malleable measurement outcomes, distinguishing the malleability of the measure from the… (similarity 0.92)
• IATs lack psychometric evidence of construct validity; at best 36% of variance in a single IAT may reflect implicit attitudes, and the proportion could be 0. (similarity 0.89)
• Han, Olson, and Fazio established that the attribute response labels typically employed in the IAT contribute to the malleability of the IAT, clouding inferences about attitude change. (similarity 0.86)
• The bias of crowds theory treats implicit bias tests as measures of situations more than persons, with most systematic variance in implicit bias being situational and context-dependent. (similarity 0.85)
• The original IAT paper (Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz, 1998) introduced response labels like ‘pleasant’ and ‘unpleasant’ assuming these unambiguously measured association strength and implicit… (similarity 0.83)
• Analysis of 4 million IATs (2004-2016) shows American implicit attitudes toward race, skin tone, and sexuality became less biased over time, tracking cultural trends. (similarity 0.83)
• Using 4.4 million tests of implicit and explicit attitudes from U.S. internet respondents, implicit sexuality, race, and skin-tone attitudes decreased in bias over 2007-2016 and were forecast to… (similarity 0.78)