Research plan to examine the reliability of implicit bias

The Implicit Association Test, IAT, came into being in the late 1990s, Greenwald et al. 1998. It is a visual and speed reaction test where the subject associates words and pictures. It purports to measure unconscious bias of some sort, e.g. race, gender, obesity, social status, etc. IAT has become one of the most popular subjects of psychology research. A Google Scholar search on 19June2023 found over 40,000 papers with the words “Implicit Association Test” in the paper. Several researchers have called into question the entire IAT scientific enterprise. There are two points of view. On one side, in favor of the IAT, are the originators of the test, Drs. Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji, Greenwald et al. 2009. On the other side, calling the test into question, are Drs Philip E. Tetlock, Gregory Mitchell, Oswald et al. 2013, and Ulrich Schimmack 2019.