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- Why We’re Biased About Being Biased http://nautil.us/blog/-why-youre-biased-about-being-biased 15 comments
- Why You’re Biased About Being Biased http://nautil.us/blog/why-youre-biased-about-being-biased 12 comments
- A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard https://www.oodaloop.com/technology/2019/11/12/a-i-systems-echo-biases-theyre-fed-putting-scientists-on-guard/ 282 comments
- Report reveals racially-biased enforcement of drug laws in Cuyahoga County, Ohio: if you’re African-American, you are many times more likely to be arrested and incarcerated for a drug law violation http://blog.aclu.org/2008/08/01/report-details-racially-biased-enforcement-of-drug-laws-in-cuyahoga-county-ohio/ 4 comments reddit.com
- U.S. regulators warn they already have the power to go after A.I. bias — and they’re ready to use it https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/us-regulators-warn-they-already-have-the-power-to-go-after-ai-bias.html 2 comments technews
- U.S. regulators warn they already have the power to go after A.I. bias — and they’re ready to use it https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/us-regulators-warn-they-already-have-the-power-to-go-after-ai-bias.html 171 comments futurology
- Four Strikes And You’re Out - An analysis of umpire bias when calling strikes http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/four-strikes-and-youre-out/ 14 comments baseball
- Scientists avoid gender bias when they know they’re being tested for bias https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/scientists-avoid-gender-bias-when-they-know-theyre-being-tested-for-bias/ 255 comments nottheonion
- Re-evaluate your bias: Is a job in science a good job? http://philip.greenspun.com/careers//women-in-science 7 comments reddit.com
- We’re obviously biased, but we think Meg’s GMI https://youtu.be/DyPm0u8pvBc 11 comments btc
- Platypuses and other Australian mammals aren’t weird, ‘they’re victims of colonial bias’ https://www.watoday.com.au/world/europe/platypuses-and-other-australian-mammals-aren-t-weird-they-re-victims-of-colonial-bias-20210627-p584m1.html 4 comments nature
- Democrats see most news outlets as unbiased. Republicans think they’re almost all biased. http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/06/democrats-see-most-news-outlets-as-unbiased-republicans-think-theyre-almost-all-biased/ 53 comments politics
- The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain: Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/cognitive-bias/565775/ 11 comments cogsci
- Study finds that "SF doesn’t really make you stupid. It’s more that if you’re stupid enough to be biased against SF you will read SF stupidly." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/23/science-fiction-triggers-poorer-reading-study-finds?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks 62 comments books
- The AI job interviewer will see you now - AI interview services say they’re eliminating bias — but not everyone agrees. https://restofworld.org/2024/ai-interview-software-hiring-practices/ 115 comments futurology
- Science AMA Series: Hi, we’re leaders from the American Association from the Advancement of Science, and we want to talk about identifying, confronting, and overcoming implicit racial bias in science. Ask Us Anything! http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6307/1586 1203 comments science
- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 8 comments philosophy
- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 43 comments philosophy
- [Scuderia Ferrari] “It doesn’t matter if we’re male or female, it doesn’t matter where I come from or what language I speak, we’re all just part of this team”. For International Womens Day, some of our female employees talk about how they started working at Scuderia Ferrari and Break The Bias https://twitter.com/ScuderiaFerrari/status/1501139411106504710?s=19 49 comments formula1
- “Bitcoin represents a system where censorship is impossible, with no bias, no favoritism, no handouts, and no money printing” ... Except the subreddit they’re posting in, and everywhere else the BTC dev team or other core maximalists control... https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/lb7gq1/gamestop_stock_craze_is_basically_a_20_billion_ad/ 6 comments btc
- Racism leads to science that is biased, exclusionary, and even harmful. We’re experts on the ways racism and lack of diversity harms STEM and perpetuates inequalities - let’s discuss! https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ihktdt/racism_leads_to_science_that_is_biased/ 4024 comments science
- European openly expressed more racial bias in surveys shortly after Trump's 2016 election, and less racial bias after Obama's 2008 election. Bush's 2004 election and Obama's 2012 re-election had no impact on self-reported racial bias. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/global-racist-contagion-following-donald-trumps-election/222d3ac82a8e3bd95880f262eb3f1f87 29 comments science
- We’re using confirmation bias by assuming extraterrestrial life would require the presence of water. It’s hurting us in the discovery for potential life outside of Earth https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/93obkg/were_using_confirmation_bias_by_assuming/ 12 comments aliens
- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 763 comments philosophy
- Falcons DT Grady Jarrett on officiating bias: "They’re a team that gets away with a lot of stuff as far as holding calls and everything. So, when the thing isn’t going his way, when the game’s played fairly, it tends to be a problem.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/falcons/2017/01/22/defense-rattled-aaron-rodgers-robert-alford-atlanta-packers/96936314/ 1202 comments nfl
- Falcon DT Grady James on officiating bias: "They’re a team that gets away with a lot of stuff as far as holding calls and everything. So, when the thing isn’t going his way, when the game’s played fairly, it tends to be a problem.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/falcons/2017/01/22/defense-rattled-aaron-rodgers-robert-alford-atlanta-packers/96936314/ 8 comments nfl
- Science AMA Series: Hi Reddit! We’re Dr Rhys Hester and Dr Todd Hartman. We published a paper on racial bias in criminal sentencing which highlights inequalities in incarceration rates and sentence lengths for minority offenders. Ask us anything! http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/criminology/journal/10940 663 comments science
- PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi Reddit, we’re Malcolm MacLeod and David Howells, and we published a paper in PLOS Biology that found an elevated average risk of bias in work from leading institutions or work published in high-impact factor journals – Ask Us Anything! http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/clinical-brain-sciences/people/principal-investigators/professor-malcolm-macleod 71 comments science
- Study about search engines & elections: “What we’re talking about here is a means of mind control on a massive scale that there is no precedent for in human history.” [...] "Specifically, we show that biased search rankings can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more." http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2015/08/internet-search-engines-may-be-influencing-elections 3 comments politics
- Study about search engines & elections: “What we’re talking about here is a means of mind control on a massive scale that there is no precedent for in human history.” [...] "Specifically, we show that biased search rankings can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more." http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2015/08/internet-search-engines-may-be-influencing-elections 24 comments technology
- Britain’s Success Story: we’re seeing ideological bias of many in the news media. France believes in a strong welfare state and so it is reported as a failure, never mind the numbers. Austerity in Britain is politically approved, so it is pronounced a success on the shakiest of grounds. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/britains-success-story/?module=blogpost-title&version=blog%20main&contentcollection=opinion&action=click&pgtype=blogs&region=body 13 comments worldnews
- NIH gives $10.1 million for gender-balanced research: "The [NIH] want to end a long-standing bias in biomedical research, towards men. It turns out when researchers do what are called pre-clinical studies, most of the time they’re using male animals and male cells." http://www.marketplace.org/topics/health-care/nih-gives-101-million-gender-balanced-research 11 comments politics
- We don’t have democracy in this country. It’s so biased. If you’re in a third party, you can’t — I can’t get in debates as a third party candidate. I can’t — when I did it as a third party I spent over half my money just trying to get on the ballots. - Ron Paul http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/06/05/ron-paul-on-cnns-state-of-the-union-652011/ 3 comments politics
- "Those who bias the torture debate by pandering to fear and casting it as “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists” are as disingenuous as those who try to justify terrorism by perverting Islam." http://www.crimesofwar.org/commentary/torture-finding-our-moral-compass/ 10 comments politics
- "The next time an issue sparks you interest, step back and analyze how you react. What preconceived notions are you bringing into the issue? How do your biases color your initial response? There’s a good chance that you’re already 80% settled on your stance with only 20% of the information. " http://www.griffinwrites.com/groupthink-and-the-redundancy-of-knowledge/ 35 comments philosophy
- Wikipedia has decided that the Badder-Meinhoff phenomenon/cognitive bias does not exist and now re-directs to the synchronicity page which is a completely different thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/baader-meinhof_%28disambiguation%29 3 comments reddit.com