Recognizing the presence and impact of news outlets' biases on public discourse is a crucial challenge. Biased news significantly shapes how individuals perceive events, potentially jeopardizing public and individual wellbeing. In assessing news outlet reliability, the focus has predominantly centered on ...
@klauscanth thanks :)
Because of the increasing use of data-centric systems and algorithms in machine learning, the topic of fairness is receiving a lot of attention in the acad
Recent work highlights individual-level variation in negativity biases in news selection. There has, however, been limited work exploring the source of this individual-level variation. This study considers predispositions in information processing as a source of difference in news selection. We explore ...
"Even qualities that many women in the study regarded as valuable aspects of their style, like empathy and communication, sometimes have perverse consequences such as longer consultation times with patients which impacted their pay. "The good news is that if small biases are significant, then so ...
In the midst of a pandemic that has claimed more than 2 million lives worldwide and disrupted nearly every facet of society since it appeared more than a year ago, understanding the factors that create and facilitate disease ...
In his research with theHistory of Cartography Project, Edney, a cartographic history professor, said he learned “to ask why maps (were) made, and what cultural, social and instrumental value they have.” Sometimes biases in maps are easy to recognize — like this U.S. map: ...
Including African researchers in the design and conduct of research, rather than simply bringing them in at a later stage when key decisions have been made is a good starting point, he adds. In the Nature Index, institutions in Africa primarily partnered with those in Europe, followed by North...
(doctors should really follow this advice :) as it may be very easy to do harm if the patient was first informed that about 80% of people with the same disorder usually die within a year or so while in the end further tests reveal that the patient was actually suffering from something ...
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has excluded the opposition MDC Alliance from its provisional consultations in provinces meant to discuss electoral deve...