My new favorite way to waste time...

...is to participate in studies at Harvard's Project Implicit.

There are about a hundred different versions of something called the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which measures your implicit associations or assumptions or feelings about a certain thing. Like, of course we're not racists, but do we have underlying associations of blackness with bad things?

Each time you log in, you get to take a different test. So far I have learned that I prefer coffee to tea (not surprising), jazz music to teen pop music (not surprising) and American places to foreign places (slightly disconcerting), that I associate masculinity with science and femininity with liberal arts (sad, but not that surprising), that I more strongly identify with artists rather than musicians (random) and with books over television (relieving), and that I slightly prefer creationism over evolution (extremely surprising. Not indicative of anything I learned in school, Caitlin!).

Try it, it's fun!