It’s also helpful to realize that affinity bias is essentially a shortcut, allowing our brains to save valuable energy by skipping real critical thinking and simply associating “similar to me” with “good” and “worth including in my life.” Effects of affinity bias Unfortunately, sometimes ...
In business, this bias surfaces as short-sighted decisions. And on slow-burning problems like climate change, it translates into the unwillingness to make small sacrifices (牺牲) today that could make a major difference tomorrow. Instead, all t...
Life is full ofchoices, someinconsequential, some reallysignificant. But sometimes it can be hard to make the correct one. What are the obstacles that stand between us and agood outcome? Some of us just find it hard...
The tendency to be overly confident in one’s own abilities or judgments. This bias can lead people to take unnecessary risks or make poor decisions based on their own overestimation of their abilities. Hindsight bias. When people claim to have known something all along, after it has been pro...
Some AI researchers are confident that this will become known in the next 5 to 10 years; others are unsure it will ever be fully understood. Here’s an overview of what we do know about how generative AI works: Start with the brain. A good place to start in understanding generative AI...
This chapter examines a number of cases where bias is said to be present and tries to generalize from them to an accurate account of the concept of bias. The root idea is that bias is a slant, an angle, a leaning, or a limited perspective. This idea seem
Nonresponse bias is almost impossible to eliminate completely, but there are a few ways to ensure that avoids additional error in your survey.
It can reveal information about protected characteristics likeage,race,nationality,disability,gender,religion, etc., and that could bias a hiring decision. Pictures or comments on a private page that are taken out of context could ruin a perfectly good candidate's chances of getting hired. This ...
These models still need to be trained and fine-tuned to represent a brand accurately. They often produce results that are not explainable and there are ethical issues with bias and copyright, as well as security issues with being able to lock these models down. Recent examples such as Google...
or any researcher with a good idea but without an already-stellar reputation, might struggle to get their foot in the door. Status bias means the name of the individual on the paper can matter as much as the findings when it comes to what gets published, suggests the study, which was re...