#Biases

Lore FergusonWilbert

lorewilbert

Becoming aware of cynicism in my life recently. Cynicism is, at its root, a type of judgmentalism. It comes with its own set of facts, perceptions, biases, and preferences. Usually

Dave 🥔🌐 #StopTheStupid

desertdave2012

One of the downsides of the paywall model. Back when we read physical newspapers, ads, especially classifieds, paid for the majority of newspaper budgets. We, the readers, mostly paid for

The Dread Pirate Jussim

PsychRabble

As promised, the slides and video for my talk, given to the inaugural Merton Series in Physics (yup, the physicists wanted to hear about it):Implicit Bias: Racial Gaps and Scientific

Brendan Kent

brendankent

Facts vs. ProxiesIn sports analytics, it's important to be able to distinguish between metrics that are facts and metrics that are proxies.A thread 1/ Put simply:- A metric is

Jake Anders

jakeanders

How should universities select students? #covid19 challenges have shone a spotlight on this issue both last academic year and this. In a new @CEPEO_UCL briefing note, I unpack key aspects

Matthew Facciani, PhD

MatthewFacciani

Most of these people who said such ignorant things to me have identified as liberal or progressive too. I worry sometimes that liberals/progressives believe they are above bigotry and fail

Sam Freedman

Samfr

This is an understandable and I imagine widely held view but it isn't right. The vast majority of schools worked hard to make these grades as fair as they could

Angel Eduardo

StrangelEdweird

Something about me:Every time that I have gotten fed up and angry and thought to myself, "Fuck this. Fuck them. I'm standing up for myself. I'm telling this asshole off

christa, veritable trash panda ✨💖

christaleisays

I don’t think instructors understand how important accessibility is to differently-abled learners. If you’re teaching on a regular basis: shell out the $ for live transcription/CC. There are also FREE

Juan Wilson

xjuanwilson

I want to share a story about something that happened to me today. At the end, I don’t want anyone feeling sorry for me. My hope is to share my

LL McKinney says pre-order Nubia: Real One

ElleOnWords

Right SO.When people say we need to #DisruptTexts, what they’re NOT saying is non-white readers can’t/don’t know how to/are incapable of/are too different too/aren’t smart enough to relate to white

Hannah Director

HannahDirector

Since inquiring minds want to know, I’m inspired to offer a tweetorial on how statisticians can interpret the weather. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/daniela_witten/status/1343245828945833988 Let’s say the news reports that there is a 30%

Taylor Pearson

TaylorPearsonMe

For my next trick, I will now attempt to summarize @ole_b_peters very insightful paper in @nature : The Ergodicity Problem in EconomicsAt the risk of being hyperbolic, I think it

Helen Tran 🇨🇦

tranhelen

In some professions, women have become well represented, yet gender bias persists—Perpetuated by those who think it is not happening:https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/26/eaba7814 Managers were given identical descriptions of a wor

SocialDistanced MedStudent

DrSomedayMaybe

If you’re defending, dismissing, or diminishing the actions of Sarah Mojarad and her doxxing Twitter crew I encourage you to examine your own biases, ESPECIALLY if you are a healthcare

Kevin Bird

itsbirdemic

A lot of responses to this are expressing some naive, but commonly held perceptions about science. How can science be racist if it is just a method that can only

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