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Bias
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Siri, Are Feminine AI Voices Sexist?The leading tech companies all offer feminized assistants that perpetuate gender stereotypes.
By Brian Feldman
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life in pixels
The White House’s ‘Tech Bias’ Reporting Form Is a Masterpiece of TrumpismThe White House’s call for stories of bias on social media is the apotheosis of the administration’s belief system.
By Max Read
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life in pixels
The Rise of Busybody JournalismIn “see for myself” reporting, individual sentiment crowds out institutional facts.
By Max Read
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Amazon’s Facial-Recognition Software Mistakes 28 Congressmen for CriminalsThe software misidentified a disproportionate amount of representatives of color, including six members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
By Mack DeGeurin
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Grammys Announces Bias Task Force After Its President Tells Women to ‘Step Up’Recording Academy president Neil Portnow had said women need to “step up” to win awards.
By Lisa Ryan
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discrimination
Former Female Google Employees Come Forward About Discrimination“When you speak up, you’re going to be negatively impacted,” one woman said.
By Dayna Evans
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Banker Sues Goldman Sachs Over Alleged Race DiscriminationShe claims she was discriminated against for being black and for her Jewish faith.
By Dayna Evans
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A New Book Explores How Science Has Misrepresented WomenA conversation with Angela Saini, author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong — and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story.
By Lily Carollo
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Black Girls Are Perceived As Less Innocent Than White Girls — Starting at Age 5The findings build on past studies that surveyed respondents’ perceptions of black boys.
By Natalie Jacewicz
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The Bias That Trump (Like Reagan) Uses to Fool AmericaA claim doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be sticky.
By Drake Baer
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mean world syndrome
The Bias That Explains Why Americans Fear Terrorism More Than GunsYou’re over 3,000 times more likely to be killed by a firearm than a jihadist.
By Drake Baer
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What Good Is Hope?Does optimism make you foolish, human, or both?
By Drake Baer
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Facebook to Train Employees Against ‘Political Bias’Earlier reports indicated that conservative sites and stories were being ignored.
By Brian Feldman
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Why Americans Ignore the Role of Luck in EverythingIn a talk about his new book on luck, the economist Robert Frank offered some ideas for increasing luck awareness.
By Jesse Singal
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Will Making a Murderer Change How Jurors Think?Potential jurors’ familiarity with Making a Murderer “will be a significant question on criminal cases from here on out.”
By Kenny Herzog
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Black Boys Are Perceived As Older and Less Innocent Than Their White PeersA striking study provides context for the consistent comments about Tamir Rice seeming older than the 12-year-old child he was.
By Melissa Dahl
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weighty issues
Do I Make This Quesadilla Look Fat?A new study suggests that weight bias affects how we perceive food info online.
By Susan Rinkunas
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What a Poetry Kerfuffle Can Teach Us About Bias“If I’d pulled the poem then I would have been denying that I gave the poem special attention because of the poet’s Chinese pseudonym.”
By Jesse Singal
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michael lacour
Is Social Science a Giant Liberal Conspiracy?It obviously is, opines The Wall Street Journal in the wake of the Michael Lacour scandal.
By Jesse Singal
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Do High-Tech Promises Turn Us Into Rubes?Our brains go a little bit crazy when someone presents us with exciting new technology.
By Jesse Singal
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The Bias That Can Help Explain Endless ConflictsWe have pure motives — they are driven by hatred.
By Jesse Singal
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productivity
How Narrow Defeats Mess With Our HeadsWe tend to overreact when we just miss out on a goal.
By Jesse Singal
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A Harvard Professor Explains How Women Can Negotiate BetterEven when they get the raises they’re asking for, women are a lot more likely to be “punished” socially for negotiating.
By Jesse Singal
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Trophy Wives May Not Really Be a ThingA new study argues that biased readings of data have led to a sexist myth.
By Jesse Singal
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Kill the Cover Letter and RésuméOur standard way of applying to jobs is a bad system for employers and employees alike.
By Jesse Singal
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Overweight Political Candidates Get Fewer VotesFemale candidates are punished more than males ones for being overweight, of course.
By Jesse Singal
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Real Estate
By Jay Barmann
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master debaters
By Margaret Hartmann
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Party Like It’s 1959
City Investigates Continental’s Door PolicyOwner Trigger Smith says “there’s not a prejudiced bone in my body.”
By Daniel Maurer