#Bias

Upstate Federalist

upstatefederlst

Yes, indeed. Joe Biden is so popular that we're having an inauguration with no attendees, surrounded by the US Military, despite him having received votes from roughly 50% of the

Carrick Ryan

realCarrickRyan

A quick thread:There are two things I spend a lot of my time trying to highlight: media bias, and conspiracy theories. I feel it's important to stress how it isn't

Norman Ornstein

NormOrnstein

When and if the sorry history of this era Is written, the anchors, producers and bookers of Sunday talk shows, the editors and many reporters of mainstream media, will not

Adam Olsen

AdamPOlsen

Today the Special Committee on Reforming the #BCPoliceAct heard from the Ministries of Health, Mental Health and Addictions, Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation and Public Safety and Solicitor General. Consistent themes

Obaid Omer

obaidomer

The executive order bans training that scapegoats or stereotypes people by race or sex. It doesn't mention anything that Crenshaw lists. If the banning of stereotyping and scapegoating makes her

ecommerce

ecommerce

Google have put out a new 'playbook' on how to encourage purchases.It's 98 pages long, but *this* is the key part. These are common ideas, but 'the 6' provides a

Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri 🦀

bascule

Trying a horrible experiment...Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama? "It's the red tie! Clearly the algorithm has a preference for red ties!"Well let's see... Let's

Sam Johnson

SamuelGBJohnson

Some applied behavioral science for your Saturday morning. (First thread...Hope this works.) One thing I do to fight #twitterbubble culture: If I get annoyed by someone's political posts, I am

Caitlin Gorback

CGorback

My first academic publication feels very bittersweet.This new addition to my professional CV comes with personal loss for millions of people across the globe. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119020300632?dgcid=author1

Kostas on F.I.R.E. 🔥

itsKostasOnFIRE

Recency Bias and InvestingHow your memory can turn you into a lazy investor/THREAD/ 1/ Recency bias is a cognitive bias that makes us favor recent events over historic ones.Also known

FIRE Journey

FIREJourney4

Emotional pitfalls to avoid in investment decision making// Thread // 1. Confirmation biasWe all tend to seek for info that support our beliefs or conclusionsSometimes it leads to

Katie Perry

katieeperry

Following my steady diet of cable news this week, I have never been more convinced that networks + platforms need to be better about educating people about the difference b/t

Conor Harris

Conor_Harris_

A thread on how to maximize your hamstring trainingThe average trainee is quite quad-dominant in my experience. So let's address that by learning how to attack the hamstrings.The hamstrings as

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

Good morning to everyone but University of Texas Computer Science department @UTCompSci, which has been using a biased machine learning system, flagged by their diversity office, to evaluate...*checks notes*.. PhD

Rod Graham

roderickgraham

Evidence assymetry is a problem in convos about "isms".This is a well done, but rather normal study about "isms" showing perceptions of bias. The research can certainly be critiqued (probably

Progress SA 🇿🇦

ProgressRSA

Threa - please read till the end. This week we conducted a survey on the idea of Cape secession.We were interested in gauging public opinion and hearing arguments to inform

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