BITCH-100

In 1972 Robert L. Williams, professor of psychology and head of Black Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, published a 100-item vocabulary test drawn from the Black American experience, to show what a test does when its content is familiar to one group and foreign to another. Black and White high-school students in St. Louis scored 87 and 51 out of 100, a 36-point gap, and in a later study of police applicants the two distributions did not overlap at all while their IQs did. The name is Williams's own; a 1970 draft was the "Black Intelligence Test Counterbalanced for Honkies".

The test was sold by Williams's own firm and was never digitised. This version has the 69 items that have been printed in textbooks, newspapers and casebooks since 1973, with Williams's keys where they were printed. For eleven items one or two distractors, and for four items the answer options, were written to match the printed ones; the vocabulary is that of Black St. Louis around 1970, so some answers have shifted since. Directions as in the original: choose the correct definition as Black people use the words and expressions. There is no time limit.

Your result gives your score, where it falls among everyone who has taken it here, and where it would have fallen among Williams's 1972 Black and White students, assuming the missing 31 items would have gone as these 69 did.