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Originally Posted by Frownland
Or you just have better motor skills now.
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You can't outsmart Harvard, sorry. Motor skills have nothing to do with the test, it compares your reaction times between two categories.
An answer to a question similar to yours from the IAT FAQ:
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Could the result be a function of handedness or hand-eye coordination?
There is no evidence that handedness influences IAT scores. When thinking about the influence of hand-eye coordination or cognitive ability, keep in mind how the test works. In a gay-straight IAT we measure how long it takes people to categorize items when Gay People + Good / Straight people + Bad are paired together versus when Straight People + Good / Gay people + Bad are paired together. People who have better hand-eye coordination or higher cognitive ability might be generally faster to respond, but there is no reason to think that they would be faster in one category pairing versus the other. For this reason we do not think that hand-eye coordination will influence IAT scores.
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