#Biases

Sheilah Birgen

SheilahBirgen

We are all biased. Each and every one of us. Biased based on experience, information, beliefs, faith or lack of it, comfort, perception, treats and fear. Each of us! And

Duncan Astle

DuncanAstle

As promised. Here are some good references if you want to demonstrate the socio-economic biases that operate in recruitment. A thread: 1st up. Very nice paper using a birth cohort

profound thots

runawaytonight

Privilege is being outraged by the destruction but indifferent to its casualties https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/ https://www.physiciansweekly.com/nonwhite-patients-get-less/ https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-p

Shreyas Doshi

shreyas

The 7 Cognitive Biases of Product Teams, a video thread for very busy product people:(these ~15 minutes could save your company ~15 million or more on opportunity costs) (1/15)Why care

Kiennefarious 😈💖

KiennaS

So a handful of the comments I saw say something along the lines of, "I don't mind diversity, but I want my historical games to be accurate"Let's break down what

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gracefulksj

♢ Biases/Bias Wreckers list ♢ - This thread will most likely be updated a lot! -My bias wreckers May change and/or another member of each group will be added lol.

Ann Marie Lastrassi stan

naledimashishi

No one even said you have to add a dark skinned friend to your friendship group for wokeness points. The point was that if you’ve gone your whole life without

Nyadol Nyuon 🐯

NyadolNyuon

Probably true (for me). But analysis about criticism of journalists should also include an analysis of power. Journalists, good or bad, have power. How they use that power is not

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

The reason machine learning algorithms show bias is that the goal of these algorithms is to learn ALL the patterns in the data including the biases. The "bias" is actually

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Brief EBM thread on cognitive bias related to interpreting early information, or "How to assess if an unconventional arguments is based on shared vs selective facts". Inspired by posts

James K.A. Smith

james_ka_smith

There is now an entire industry of writers who leverage their insider experiences of evangelicalism/Catholicism/Mormonism, etc to confirm the biases of secularist, anti-religious elites. This is my least favorite religious

Hilary Agro

hilaryagro

This is a good question, so I'm going to write a short thread about the lens that anthropologists work from. We try to combine a radical ethical awareness of what's

Jennifer Bonhomme

JenBonhomme

Has anyone else checked out this fascinating start up @italic. It’s luxury clothes, bags, homewares at cost, claiming “from the same manufacturing as..” and listing high end designer. They are

George Kibala

gfkkb

*Two Cents* - These "Africa is doing great with COVID" takes are as problematic as the "Africa is hopeless in the face of this crisis" takes. They lack nuance, downplay

Dr. Pragya Agarwal

DrPragyaAgarwal

In an unconscious bias and anti-racism workshop yesterday someone asked me a great question: How do I know as a white person that I am being a good ally &

✶ nicole⁰⁹²¹ ✧ #lidiabaebee

hamjinsteabag

everglow question thread!!dedicated to forevers -quote to answer-rt to spread -i don’t wanna see any fanwars or fights