IAT test: Association between Male and Female with Science or Liberal Arts

Yesterday in my Personality Psychology class, I had the pleasure of taking my first IAT test which was trying to see if there was an association between Male and Female with Science and Liberal Arts. It asked whether I believed Science or Liberal Arts was more Male or Female dominated.

My results concluded that I had no association between Male and Female with Science or Liberal Arts. The test was trying to distinguish the 'automatic association between Male and Science.'
I believe that I have no association between a male or female dominated field because I have grown up in a generation of women and men both doing whatever they want for a career. The boundary line saying what we can and cannot do is slowly breaking down. There's no such thing as 'no you can't work in this field because you are a women or a man', which may have been the case 30 years ago. I am lucky that I have the opportunity to do what I love, and not be limited due to my gender.

Below, is the complied data of everyone that has taken this test, which was generated after I completed the test. It's interesting to read this table that majority of the people still have a moderate or stronger association of Male with Science ad Female with Liberal Arts.  There was a drastic change in percentages when the association between Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts changed to Male with Liberal Arts and Female with Science.  I wonder if generations to come if these percentages will keep changing to the point where it is equal to be a male in science in liberal arts and females in science and liberal arts. Gender shouldn't define what field you can work in.



(Harvard IAT testing, 2014).


Interested in taking an IAT test? Here is the link that I used.. Enjoy!

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=-1