Maybe not who your conscious mind prefers. Want to find out? Take the 10-minute online Project Implicit test designed by psycholowonks at the U of Washington, the U of Virginia and Harvard. The test is fun, made me laugh, and will crack that oh-so-dark door to your secret feelings about the main candidates. Thanks to Peter Aldhous at Short Sharp Science for the heads-up on this, and for his results revealing a secret crush on Hillary. He’s not alone, the test shows that many rate Clinton higher on the implicit test than their conscious attitudes speak—for both men and women.
As for my unconscious, it’s, well, so unconscious and insists on paralleling my conscious, which rates Clinton high anyway… The really fun part, the one we’ll surely never know, is: Who would the candidates themselves secretly prefer?
Julia Whitty is Mother Jones’ environmental correspondent, lecturer, and 2008 winner of the John Burroughs Medal Award. You can read from her new book, The Fragile Edge, and other writings, here.
