Sentences with phrase «face more biases»

Studies have found that female coaches face more biases than their male counterparts when applying for head coach positions.

«A slam dunk for women head coaches — so drop the bias: New study shows female basketball coaches face more biases than male coaches despite performing as well.»

Not exact matches

While women typically face gender - discrimination or bias in traditional sources of funding like venture capital or banking, crowdfunding «enables and empowers far more female decision - makers — as project backers and «micro-VCs» — than within traditional finance,» the report argues.

Still, Mr. Brafman added, «in today's climate, defendants facing political corruption charges must be concerned about potential juror bias that may be based more on perception than fact.»

«This finding shows that these effects aren't just due to more odious criminals advertising their malice through their faces but, rather, suggests that these really are biases that might mislead people independent of any potential kernels of truth,» say Wilson and Rule.

«Our findings provide evidence that the stereotypes we hold can systematically alter the brain's visual representation of a face, distorting what we see to be more in line with our biased expectations,» explains Jonathan Freeman, an assistant professor in NYU's Department of Psychology and the senior author of the paper, which appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

According to Scherf, the researchers did not find any evidence of another commonly held belief that women could recognize faces of their own biological sex more easily than the other, also referred to as «own gender bias.»

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Schools now face a painful dilemma, I fear that as the grade weighting has changed so will the bias towards the more academic pupils, bringing us back to a similar situation to which the new «fairer» progress 8 measure was to negate against.

Instead of basic workshops about bullying, Villenas says more targeted information about bias - based bullying, specifically, would help teachers understand the issues faced by particular subgroups in their schools and how they play out among students.

Following the example of counter-protesters who took action in the face of hate (including a great many educators), we are steadfast in our belief that we must be even more committed to owning our personal responsibility to dismantle white supremacy in our institutions - be they nonprofits like Leading Educators or the school districts from which our students and families rightfully expect excellent, bias - free education.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the lMore specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the lmore or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

That Nicoll faced considerable odds — from frail health to the bias against women artists all too common in her lifetime — makes her achievements all the more remarkable.

I had just picked up Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction, which devoted much of a chapter to the dangers of predictive policing, and though I really wanted to write something explaining all of the dangers such a well - intentioned competition was likely to face, I wasn't sure what more I could add to the growing chorus of concern surrounding algorithmic bias.2 Then I hit on the canary idea.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

From this, we can deduce that if businesses are to truly thrive in the face of this inevitable disruption, then leaders must make a conscious effort to overcome these biases and adopt a more inclusive style of leadership.

More study is needed to determine if there is a true difference, or if psychologists have a bias in favor of face - to - face psychotherapy, as the authors propose.

However, the implications of items on tests with clear face validity is that they are more vulnerable to social desirability bias.

Second, in line with the results of other studies that unexpectedly found a negative association between triadic coordination and marital satisfaction in parents (Favez et al., 2011), it is likely that parents in a more positive family context — e.g., with a lower level of coparenting conflict — might be more able to develop reflexive thinking and thus be more critical in their assessment of child symptoms, whereas parents facing difficulties within the family might trigger defense mechanisms, such as denial, leading to a bias in the assessment of their child in a falsely positive way.