Hidden Assumptions

1.) I found my results to be true, for the most part, but I found the test itself to be ridiculous. The first test I took-the skin tone test-said I had a slight preference to light-skinned people. The reason it said slight preference is because my fingers pressed the wrong keys a few times since the test purposefully got them used to pressing a certain key for a certain topic. It has nothing to do with an immediate, unconscious preference, but simply a trained finger. It's almost as if the tests were trying to make you come out with racist results. For the second test, which was on gender and sciences, I got slightly to no association between gender and sciences. I could predict the results of my tests based on how many times my fingers slipped, so I was neither surprised, pleased, or angry.
2.) No I don't believe the tests say something about me that I should pay attention to. I know my views on the topics presented, and I don't think this style of test is designed well enough to properly display those views; as it's based on an immediate response from a twitchy figure. I think maybe if this way of answering questions was oral, or somehow unable to be manipulated by repetition, the tests could be more trustworthy.
3.) No I don't think these tests are valid. I don't think it's that easy to determine someone's unconscious preferences, as there's a lot of human error when taking them. I questioned the test's validity the second question #1 appeared, so I didn't really care what my test results would end up as, since either way they wouldn't be because of a mental analysis, but keyboard errors.
4.) One example of a general attitude that I find to be very common in culture is often in shows: the depiction of the rich, and well off as white people and the ne'er-do-wells/gangsters as black people. This shows white people with "superior" attributes, and black people with "bad" and "inferior" attributes.  I'd say that these attitudes toward these two races are generalizations that most certainly formed stereotypes. I think a stereotype is formed from a generalization, so the only way to distinguish between the two is by seeing which comes first. At first, there must have been a generalization that "gangsters" are mostly black people, and that must have eventually formed a set stereotype that has infiltrated shows and culture.
5.) In order to combat jumping to conclusions in general, to deal with this "rapid cognition," we need to    get used to knowing when we jump to conclusions. We have to basically train ourselves to recognize when this "rapid cognition" normally takes place, and allow ourselves to step back and properly analyze the situation. This will help to combat jumping to false conclusions, by trying to prevent ourselves from immediately judging something. I would argue that this is impossible, but able to be diminished. I don't think it's really possible to stop rapid cognition completely, but it can be combatted through calmness and recognition of situations through experience.