implicit - 2025 ACF Nationals

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A 2004 paper criticizing applications of this adjective was rebutted by the later paper “No Place for Nostalgia in Science.” This adjective partly titles a 2010 paper in which Scott Barry Kaufman et al. assessed this type of learning “as an ability.” Krause et al. assessed the validity of tasks like ID-EAST for measuring this sort of self-esteem. (-5[1])This adjective partly names a theory contrasting “entity” and “incremental” views of intelligence, which informed Carol (-5[1])Dweck’s work on growth mindset. This adjective names a “project” co-founded by Brian Nosek, Anthony (-5[1])Greenwald, and Mahzarin Banaji that uses a harvard.edu domain (10[1])for a task that (10[1])times (10[1])users as they sort (10[1])categories (-5[1])like (10[1]-5[1])“fat/thin” (10[2]-5[1])and attitudes (10[1])like “good/bad.” (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, what adjective (10[1])partly names an (10[2])“association test” controversially used to study unconscious racial (10[1]-5[1])bias? ■END■ (10[3]0[6])

ANSWER: implicit [or implicit prejudice; or implicit learning; or implicit theories of intelligence; or implicit self-esteem; accept “Implicit Learning as an Ability”; accept Project Implicit; accept Implicit Association Test; prompt on IAT] (The critical 2004 paper was H.R. Arkes and Philip Tetlock’s “Attributions of Implicit Prejudice, or ‘Would Jesse Jackson “Fail” the Implicit Association Test?’”)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia State	Penn State	57	-5
Bryan Ugaz	Arizona State	British Columbia	73	-5
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU	Ottawa	88	-5
Ned Tagtmeier	Chicago A	Indiana	97	10
Swapnil Garg	UC Berkeley A	Stanford	101	10
Aryan Desarapu	Michigan	Illinois B	102	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Harvard	106	10
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Illinois A	107	-5
David Bass	Johns Hopkins	Texas	108	10
Gareth Thorlakson	Toronto A	Columbia A	108	-5
Joel Miles	Minnesota	MIT	109	10
Rosa Xia	Cornell A	Toronto C	109	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	UCF	109	-5
Henry Bon	Winona State	North Carolina B	111	10
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	Columbia B	113	10
Jeremy Cummings	WUSTL A	North Carolina A	113	10
Sarod Nori	Cornell B	Vanderbilt	113	10
Jem Burch	Yale	LSE	115	10
John John Groger	WUSTL B	Florida	118	10
Orion Keller	Virginia Tech	Chicago B	121	10
Aum Mundhe	Rutgers	Northwestern	121	10
Jeffrey Xu	Georgia Tech	Toronto B	129	10
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	Waterloo B	129	-5
John Chen	British Columbia	Arizona State	131	0
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	NYU	131	0
Mitch McCullar	Penn State	Georgia State	131	0
Isaac Mammel	Maryland	RIT	131	0
Cade Reinberger	RIT	Maryland	131	0
Geoffrey Wu	Columbia A	Toronto A	131	10
James Ah Yong	Waterloo B	UC Berkeley B	131	0
Alexander Nichols	UCF	Virginia	131	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Waterloo A	131	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	79%	0%	29%	114.68