Bias

Common Method Bias in Academic Papers: Cause for Rejection or No Big Deal?
Business and Management INK
June 30, 2023

Common Method Bias in Academic Papers: Cause for Rejection or No Big Deal?

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Interview Describes Biases That Manifest In Artificial Intelligence Systems
Impact
June 7, 2023

Interview Describes Biases That Manifest In Artificial Intelligence Systems

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NIST Report: There’s More to AI Bias Than Biased Data
Industry
March 28, 2022

NIST Report: There’s More to AI Bias Than Biased Data

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Jennifer Lee on Asian Americans
Social Science Bites
July 1, 2021

Jennifer Lee on Asian Americans

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Olivier Sibony on Decision-Making

Olivier Sibony on Decision-Making

In the context of human action, management professor at HEC Paris and former McKinsey senior partner Olivier Sibony defines “noise” as the unwanted variability in human judgment.

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It Is Not a Joke: Racist Humor Normalizes Anti-Asian Racism and Must Stop

It Is Not a Joke: Racist Humor Normalizes Anti-Asian Racism and Must Stop

For decades, American society has normalized the presence of anti-Asian humor. Caricatured on television, belittled at comedy clubs, targeted on social media, and mocked in private conversations, this subtle, yet widely accepted form of racism dehumanizes the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

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The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic

The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic

The author of a new book on the response to the coronavirus tries first to understand how apparently sane people could think it made sense to implement damaging policies, and secondly asks how the public might ensure that such a disastrous episode can never happen again.

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Mahzarin Banaji on Implicit Bias

Mahzarin Banaji on Implicit Bias

“The brain is an association-seeking machine,” Harvard social psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast. “It puts things together that repeatedly get paired in our experience. Implicit bias is just another word for capturing what those are when they concern social groups.

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Tom Chatfield on Critical Thinking and Bias

Tom Chatfield on Critical Thinking and Bias

Philosopher Tom Chatfield’s media presence – which is substantial – is often directly linked to his writings on technology. But his new book is on critical thinking, and while that involves humanity’s oldest computer, the brain, Chatfield explains in this Social Science Bites podcast that new digital realities interact with old human biases.

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Iris Bohnet on Discrimination and Design

Iris Bohnet on Discrimination and Design

“As a behavioral scientist,” Iris Bohnet tells David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast looking at implicit bias, “I strongly believe that we now do have the insights and the tools to help us promote behavior change, not by changing mindsets but changing organizations.”

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Daniel Kahneman on Bias

Daniel Kahneman on Bias

Thinking is hard, and most of the time we rely on simple psychological mechanisms that can lead us astray. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast, the Nobel-prizewinning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, talks to Nigel Warburton about biases in our reasoning.

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Is Transparency Always A Good Thing?

Is Transparency Always A Good Thing?

In today’s management world, the growing consensus holds that transparency is good for any organization. But a study in the Journal of […]

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