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JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Fairly definitive proof of media bias. I actually think ?bias? is the wrong wo?
JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Fairly definitive proof of media bias. I actually think “bias” is the wrong word, now. It’s more like “deliberate lying...

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...