±«ÓãÖ±²¥ News - Bias /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Bias/rss en How our own identity impacts how we judge others /channels/channels/news/how-our-own-identity-impacts-how-we-judge-others-345764 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>How does our own identity impact how we perceive and judge others? Research from ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ has found that those who are most likely to be stereotyped based on their combined racial and gender identity, such as Black women and Asian men, were less likely to hold certain stereotypes against others.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/gettyimages-1145791506.jpg?itok=-PIt0wVl" width="160" height="87" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">8 </span><span class="month">February </span><span class="year">2023</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:11:14 +0000 webfull 187066 at /channels A new book reveals the hidden biases that can creep into Data Science models /channels/news/new-book-reveals-hidden-biases-can-creep-data-science-models-262549 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Yesterday (September 6, 2016) saw the launch of a new book by Cathy O'Neil with the provactive title <em>Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy</em>. O'Neil holds a Ph.D. from Harvard in Math and was a tenure-track math professor until 2007, when she quit academia to join Wall Street. That fledging second career came to an end just a year later with the Financial Crisis, after which O'Neil again changed careers and became a data scientist.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">7 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:27:40 +0000 webfull 121047 at /channels Gender Bias Issue /channels/news/gender-bias-issue-249207 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">30 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2015</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:09:09 +0000 webfull 109827 at /channels