At the core of every critical thinker is the ability to be an active learner who questions ideas and assumptions rather than simply accepting them at facevalue. That is, they are not passive recipients of information and will always strive to ensure that the information present best represents t...
Perception bias occurs because our perception is selective. Here, perception refers to the process of screening, selecting, organizing, and interpreting stimuli, such as words or objects, in order to give them meaning. Our brain chooses to hone in on one or very few stimuli out of the multitu...
Finally, such knowledge can also help to reduce the current research and conservation biases by highlighting least attractive species in need of higher attention both from the conservation and the scientific community, as well as the public. Methods Estimation of the attractiveness score for each ...
As this technology moves from prototype to product faster and faster, these have become questions for all of us. But (spoilers!) I don’t have the answers. I can’t even tell you what AI is. The people making it don’t know what AI is either. Not really. “These are the kinds of...
including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills.” Despite the fact that Strong AI and superintelligence is not imminent in society, the idea of it raises some interesting questions as we consider the use of autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars. It’s unrealistic to ...
This purpose of tests isproviding useful information about people, such as whether to hire them, certify them in a profession, or determine what to teach them next in school. Better tests mean better decisions. Why? The scientific evidence is overwhelming that tests provide better information for...
Artificial writing is permeating our lives due to recent advances in large-scale, transformer-based language models (LMs) such as BERT, GPT-2 and GPT-3. Using them as pre-trained models and fine-tuning them for specific tasks, researchers have extended the state of the art for many natural...
Conducting a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial helps to eliminate any bias that might occur due to knowledge of who receives which treatments. A patient or researcher would expect those who receive the active drug to have a better outcome than those who did not, and this knowledge...
What we propose is a measure for the combined effect of such constraints in order to capture the potentiality of the analyzed organization. Clearly with our measure we can not consider the origin of individual constraints. However, our measure provides a description of the whole organization and ...
In the last decades, wildlife diseases and the health status of animal populations have gained increasing attention from the scientific community as part of a One Health framework. Furthermore, the need for non-invasive sampling methods with a minimal impact on wildlife has become paramount in comp...