Twenty years ago, while in the middle of my PhD on implicit testing and advertising, I read an academic paper describing a variation on using millisecond reaction time (RT) to reveal unconscious biases. A few years later, the paper describing the Implicit Association Test (IAT) (Greenwald et al 1998) was highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's (2005). book Blink.This prompted many research companies to start investigating RT based testing. I myself began using RT for brand testing around 2003 (probably the first to do this). Fifteen years on though, it's time to ask how useful actually is RT data?...
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