Sentences with phrase «ethnic bias»

Three screening tools for depression were used to counter concerns about ethnic bias and validity in linguistic translation.
He accused the police of displaying ethnic bias in its investigation and this is not good for the unity of Nigeria and its people.
«We should all therefore disabuse our minds of ethnic bias by denying the narrative of inter-ethnic conflict between the Yoruba and Hausa community in Ile Ife, because it was not.
Recent studies by social psychologists have found that mindfulness can reduce racial ethnic bias by preventing the automaticity of negative associations that originate in the subconscious mind.
The insider squealed that the Presidency was aware of the foregoing hence its worries that aside possibly being the sole candidate of the North and being believed by most Nigerians to be a liberal Muslim without ethnic bias or other sentiments, the former Number Two citizen stood a better chance to defeat Jonathan at next February's presidential election.
«Owelle Rochas Okorocha had the vision to look beyond ethnic bias and align his political interest and that of his people with that of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), even when many in this region did not have such foresight.»
This was as he extolled his virtues saying he had the foresight to break from ethnic bias and align with the All Progressive Congress (APC) when others in the South - East did not.
«In my own opinion, the investigation so far conducted by the police was done with ethnic bias and I demand a thorough investigation that is devoid of ethnic sentiments.
Some observers of the case accused the Manhattan District Attorney's office of selective prosecution, claiming it demonstrated ethnic bias in going after the Sungs.
The third group of Christian schools, affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, has a more specific ethnic bias but seems to mirror the fundamentalist Baptist schools in its emphasis on creationism in science classes.
For example, a 2010 study examined teachers» implicit and explicit ethnic biases, finding that their implicit — not explicit — biases were responsible for different expectations of achievement for students from different ethnic backgrounds.16
We wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture.
With site - specific projects and print campaigns around the world, the feminist activist art collective Guerrilla Girls exposes gender and ethnic bias in art, politics, and pop culture.
However, handling of crime must be without ethnic bias
«I do not subscribe to the politics of ethnic bias and never have.
The sheer comprehensiveness of his political error recalls the old joke about the bigot who denies any specific form of racial or ethnic bias.
This shows the ethnic bias that some have within the Muslim religion.
«The fact that women are capable of contributing to the nation's scientific and engineering enterprise but are impeded in doing so because of gender and racial / ethnic bias and outmoded «rules» governing academic success is deeply troubling and embarrassing,» wrote the authors of a 2007 report on women in academic science and engineering issued by the National Academies [7].
For example, they had to monitor such issues as racial, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic biases in the text and photographs, plus lab safety concerns.
Student evaluations frequently reflect popularity or grading standards, rather than genuine instructional quality, and exhibit gender, racial, and ethnic biases, [v] while peer reviews are subject to «halo effects» resulting from evaluators» knowledge of a faculty member's research record.
Matthew McBee, a psychologist who edits The Journal of Advanced Academics, which focuses on gifted education, recently called referrals «the elephant in the room,» a largely unexamined source of racial and ethnic bias in the identification of gifted children.
Students answered questions about their level of trust in their school and whether they perceived racial and ethnic biases in their school's policies and practices.
Disparities in disciplinary practices can reinforce a negative cycle, where students who perceive racial and ethnic bias are less likely to trust their schools and become more likely to be disciplined by school staff.
I thought the works were expressing a «political correctness» in that they appeared to have an ethnic bias... at least the works I wandered by... lots of blacks and people of color portrayed.
Curated by Jean - Hubert Martin, it aimed to counter the ethnic bias and colonial complicity of the contemporary art world.
The Oregon Supreme Court Tuesday rejected the State Bar's request to end a requirement that lawyers educate themselves about ways to eliminate recial and ethnic bias, according to a report in the Statesman Journal.
Justices voted 5 - 1 to leave intact a requirement that lawyers educate themselves about how to eliminate racial and ethnic bias.
Oregon Justices voted 5 - 1 to leave intact a requirement that lawyers educate themselves about how to eliminate racial and ethnic bias.
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