#Bias

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD

cfiesler

A thread on filter bubbles, confirmation bias, design against misinformation, and social media content policy. Or: how can people really think that the U.S. election was rigged, and is it

K2

ShitcoinSherpa

Researchers & pharma companies, especially in the US, produce very little in terms of achieving results, especially as it relates to cancer research & epidemiology.This is, in large part, due

Sam Levin

SamTLevin

So many police reform efforts of the last six years have fundamentally failed to stop brutality and violence. Here’s my look at some of the popular policies that have not

Maya Basudde

mayaspoken

Trigger Warning: Medical Racism*Deep Breath* What does medical racism look like for a pregnant Black woman in Ottawa? Well so far... It is the feeling of doom after notifying your

Hedy (Hedwig) Lee

hedwig_lee

From: @drdanaaindavis @cre2 + @WashU_OBGYN partnership grand rounds talk. @ebonycartermd @rogers_ce @drdanaaindavis definition of Obstetric Racism: Learning so much from @RJEpiOBWarrior: "We have changed time but not our

Andrew Jacobs

AndrewJacobsLnD

#LDInsight As a data-led, evidenced based practice, LnD should be able to speak truth to power, explaining why and how it is part of the way the organisation works.Unfortunately, it

Domestic Radicalization Project at UMD START

RaD_UMD

We have been receiving a lot of questions about the military backgrounds of United States extremists. Here are some stats from our PIRUS and BIAS datasets to help put the

Rem Koning

orgRem

Thanks @abhishekn for tagging me and @femonomics for starting the #TweetABlackEconomistsPaper threads.My training is in economics/strategy/sociology so I am going to highlight a black economist, strategy scholar, and sociologist! First

Michael Merrick

michael_merrick

Watch the response when Ofsted starts rocking up and giving grades again after all this. Will be like a perfect storm: schools in most deprived areas who for years had

Elizabeth C. McLaughlin, Esq.

ECMcLaughlin

It is really amazing how hard women will work to confirm their confirmation bias that posting B&W pictures of themselves serves some nebulous positive pseudo-feminist purpose originating from Turkey, rather

Katlyn

KatlynMTurner

Thank you to @WeAreNDProfiles for this article . It’s true that ten years ago I primarily was a secretary, babysitter, and occasional pet-sitter for the South Bend elitewho wanted to

I am the Lorax. I speak for the Deep State (& NWO)

joshuaicore

I have an academic and professional bias towards not jumping to conclusions, towards looking for evidence, towards testing hypotheses (and no, I am not a lawyer)./1https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1347332360325496833 Based on what

Jorah

jorah

If you ever wonder why people say that American misconceptions about mental illness cause worse outcomes, look at DJT. His family likely could never admit that any of them would

Sophia Moreau

MsSMoreau

The discrimination I face as a minoritised senior leader in the charity sector is blatant. It has been made abundantly clear that they’d be comfortable with me had I been

Kyle Becker

kylenabecker

It's not only Republicans vs. Democrats now. America is being splintered into hyper-partisan factions: Trump supporters vs. GOP; Nationalists vs. Constitutional Conservatives; Socialists vs. Liberals. Independents who seek 'balance&

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some more threads on human genetics. Firstly, as many people have noted, having a diverse group of scientists doing human genetics is healthy - it is healthy for *all of

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