Employees could face ‘racism test’

Diversity training could be set to become a more daunting experience in future after psychometric tests that establish whether a person holds discriminatory attitudes hit the market.

“Implicitly”, licensed by psychology firm Hogrefe, is a series of eight tests to establish to what extent the subject is instinctively racist, sexist, homophobic or biased against disabled or old people. The tests work by presenting the sitter with a series of pictures of people, which they must match with “good” or “bad” words as they appear in quick succession. The subject’s prejudices are shown by how long they take to accomplish the task correctly, and by how many mistakes they make.