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CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: Baseless Bias and the New Second Sex. ?Claims of bias against women in aca?
CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: Baseless Bias and the New Second Sex. “Claims of bias against women in academic science have been greatly exaggerated...

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...

Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias
Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

A Conscious Bias Against ?Unconscious Bias?
Yes, I?m biased. I have a conscious bias against the very idea, or at least the uses of the idea, of ?unconscious bias,? a faddish notion lovingly surveyed and endorsed in this New York Times piece in which Charles M...

The Elitism Bias/In-Group Bias
The financial crisis has given us insight into a blindness bias that affects the elite. Ask yourself: How furious were you to learn the details of the bail outs? Unless you're reading this blog from a Goldman Sachs network, you were likely outraged...

Bias in the Beth Din: State Court Vacates Judgment of Religious Court Due to Bias
Courts in various countries are increasing being asked to enforce the judgments of religious courts — a trend that bothers many civil libertarians...