It happened in a fraction of a second - the instant you read each name, some part of you sorted strangers by where they're from, long before reason got a say. Fast, automatic, and almost invisible. Which is exactly why it's worth seeing.
This is a "would you rather" played across the nations of the Earth. Two countries at a time, one quiet question about closeness, and a choice made before you can talk yourself out of it. Forty seconds in, a map of your instincts begins to take shape.
Anonymous by default · no sign-up to take it · results saved only if you choose. How it works ↓
The whole thing rests on a quiet trick of psychology: your considered opinions and your instant reactions are not the same system, and only the second one answers in time. Here's how the instrument gets past the first to reach the second.
No "they're all equal" button. Forcing a choice between two nations slips past the part of you that knows the right answer and asks the part of you that simply reacts.
Every choice is a match. Winners take rating from losers using the Elo system. Hundreds of tiny verdicts settle into one honest number per country.
Your numbers become a world map and a named bias type - a portrait of a pattern you carry but have probably never seen drawn out.
You won't feel any of these happening. That's the point. Each is a well-documented shortcut your mind takes - here's what to watch for in your own result.
Two minutes, and at the end you don't just get a number - you get a portrait of a pattern you've never seen laid out before.
One of eight archetypes, with an honest, gentle reading of what your snap choices were actually made of.
Every nation you weighed, coloured by how far toward or away from it you instinctively leaned.
Download the full result as JSON or CSV - and, if you choose, compare yourself anonymously against everyone else who's taken it.
What's true about this. It's a teaching tool built on the Bogardus Social Distance Scale (1925), not a clinical test - it measures your choices, never the countries. Your result is recorded anonymously for research (your choices and your country, derived from your connection - we never store a raw IP), with no name and no ID tracking. Before you start we ask your country and ethnicity (it keeps the result accurate and fair, and neither identifies you); joining the study adds a few optional extras. You can also optionally create an account to save your results over time and compare with a friend. Treat what you find as a mirror, not a verdict. Methodology & evidence → Privacy →
Don't think - just lean. Out of time - we'll ask that one again.
One last thing - no timer
Take your time and answer honestly. Comparing this to the snap choices you just made is how the tool checks itself - and the gap between the two is the whole point.
Your bias type
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A personalised, literature-grounded breakdown of your specific pattern - the documented mechanisms driving it, your exact cultural map named in full, and what to actually do with it. Written from the same peer-reviewed sources as the methodology.
A quick revalidation of your own session - whether your snap answers measured something stable, or mostly noise. How these are computed ->
* About the numbers. Every country starts at an Elo rating of 1,500 - the same system that ranks chess players. Each choice you make moves the winner's score up and the loser's down. The "rating spread" is the gap between your highest- and lowest-rated nation: a bigger gap means your snap choices were more lopsided. How the scoring works ->
How to hold this. A wide spread doesn't make you prejudiced - it means that under time pressure, your snap choices weren't evenly spread. The gap between the choices you made here and the values you'd say out loud is the whole subject of implicit-bias research. The useful question was never "what's my score." It's: which of these leanings would I actually stand behind in daylight?
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How the world leans
Among people who took the same - the same countries and scale as your run.
Each number is 0-100. Higher means more selective, more partial to a few regions, or more homeward-leaning. See how your snap profile sits against the consensus.
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Numbers against the crowd are one thing - putting your map head-to-head with someone you know is another. Invite a friend, and see exactly where your instincts pull apart. Needs a free account; unlocking a comparison is $1 (yours to view for 24 hours).
Your Prejudice Map