Implicit Association Presidential Poll

[solarbird]

This is kind of neat; what implicit associations do you have with candidates? It's a measurement of purely nonrational associations.

Perhaps predictably, I don't like any of 'em, but I really don't like Huckabee. (McCain, Obama, and Clinton are all in a little cluster at neutral, with McCain slightly higher than the other two; Huckabee is 'way down towards the bottom.)

Science tag included because it's a study.

Comments

[kodi]

Hm, odd. The only other time I did one of these, it strongly matched my explicit preference. This time, they're all clustered together, with Huckabee only slightly lower than the others.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Mine came out about like I thought, with Obama up top, Clinton and McCain about even, and Huckabee down at the bottom.

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

Clinton scores on the high end of good for me, which is actually not surprising. I like her personally, I just don't like her policies or her campaign team or her husband.

McCain and Obama are tied at neutral, with Huckabee a shade below. This doesn't surprise me. McCain is personable, but I don't trust him. Obama is charismatic, but I was skeptical of him for a long time before I made an affirmative decision to support him.

Huckabee was the wild card, as I find him personable and creepily evil at the same time. I think the results bore that out. He scored the lowest on implicit association, but still not that low.

And I actually think the presidential fields on both sides are much better than average this year, even though I have problems with all of them and particularly the Republicans. The fact that none of them score really low on implicit associations is consistent with that impression.

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I took the test again. Hillary Clinton was still the highest, but at neutral. Obama and Huckabee were tied just below neutral. McCain was a couple steps below. All candidates scored lower. It might just be time for bed.

[smarier.livejournal.com]

Obama at the high end, Clinton almost the center, McCain a ways below her and Huckabee near the bottom. Whats funny is it almost matched the number rating I gave in the last section. 9,6,3,0

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Huh. Apparently I haaaaaaate McCain, he's all the way down at the bottom. But even more surprising is that Huckabee came in a titch below neutral. Because my conscious brain finds him utterly horrifying.

[ypawtows.livejournal.com]

is it broken?

My results put everyone on the same line in alphabetical order in the middle.

Maybe that just means I'm hella undecided. :b