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Bias
Bias is a term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result. All information and points of view have some form of bias. A person is generally said to be biased if a reasonable observer would conclude that the person is markedly influenced by inner biases, rendering it unlikely for them to be able to be objective.
Bias in support of our conclusions, and a mental exercise to test that bias
Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard?s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Pantheon Books 2008) at 191, urges that ?We should learn to spend as much time looking for evidence that we are wrong as we spend searching for reasons we are...
Overcoming Bias
Yet another thought-provoking post on Overcoming Bias. I liked these paragraphs: There's chocolate at the supermarket, and you can get to the supermarket by driving, and driving requires that you be in the car, which means opening your car door, which needs keys...
The "Bias" Of Blogs
By Big Tent Democrat Speaking for me only At Open Left, Tremayne does a study of the so called bias in the respective blogs...
Leonard on Bias
Adam Leonard has a nice post entitled Explaining Bias on Brains. Here is an excerpt: The ability of fMRI scans to detect which modules of the brain are active during cognitive processes provides a crude, but nonetheless revealing window into...
WSJ on Arbitration Bias
Last month, San Francisco sued the National Arbitration Forum, accusing the arbitrator of unfairly favoring credit card companies in disputes with their customers...
Racial Bias
ACLU Capital Punishment Project state strategies coordinator Christopher Hill writes, "Racial Bias Highlights Rampant Problems in Death Penalty System," at Daily Kos...















