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Prejudice Against Native Americans
The results of my IAT test were kind of confusing, but it said that I preferred Native Americans and whites the same, so the way I took it is that I’m not prejudice against Native Americans. Yes, I do think that the results were valid; I do wish that they were easier to understand but the test was actually fun I have never taken a test of prejudice before and it was really interesting. I do not think that measuring prejudice would be that easy, because there are dishonest people in the world that may not want others to know that they are prejudice.
Other forms of data collected to measure the amount of prejudice; one is income data to show vividly the disparity in income between African Americans and White people also between man and women,

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