There are multiple IAT tests ranging from subjects such as gender and race to weapons, religion and age. I suggest checking them out (I plan on doing more than one):
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html
At the beginning of the test I filled out some information regarding my feelings toward people of different sexual orientation. Next, I performed a test where the computer output a word or image and I had to press the letter "E" (left category) or "I" (right category) depending on which category I thought it fell in. At first, gay was on the left, straight was on the right. And then gay and bad were paired (still on the left) and straight and good were paired (still on the right). Then, on the third and forth test, gay and straight were switched from the "E" (left) category to the "I" (right) category, and gay was paired with the word good and straight with the word bad. The test ended with questions about your ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, where you grew up, etc.
My outcome was:
"Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Straight People and Gay People."
The overall data showed:
The hardest part of the test was responding immediately without taking time to think. The hardest part for me was remembering which category was on which side. I think it is an interesting test, however, because you do have to react immediately and associate words and images to the categories of gay, straight, good and bad, which you might not usually feel inclined to put in one category or the other.
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