Sentences with phrase «for political bias»

Fletcher had named lawyer C. Dodd Harris IV to direct a new Office of Merit System Referrals, which would look for political bias in merit job recommendations.

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But the move appears not to be going on planned, in part for a reason that could have been anticipated: AI technology is, like people, prone to bias — a bias as human as the political leanings of an editor, but coming from different sources.

«ACT for America has never, and will never, tolerate any bias, discrimination, or violence against anyone, based on their religion, gender, race, or political persuasion,» Act for America told Newsweek in a statement.

Facebook said its investigation found no evidence of bias but held a meeting with big names from conservative political and media circles that seemed to mend fences for a time.

As Wired reported, Facebook conducted an internal investigation of bias and even invited conservative political figures to their Menlo Park, California, offices for a meeting in 2016.

What about when CNN becomes a hated minority for not reporting without political bias?

They will likely respond in terms of political and economic biases rather than theological ones, for the theological education of the laity has suffered in recent years.

CT also noted why religious people should be the leading voices for political compromise and why all Christians are biased voters.

«Since there is no Supreme Arche as source of meaning and value, there is no need to set the world right... Unless we free ourselves from the bias that forces us to conceive the Cosmos as a single - ordered world which it is our responsibility to recreate in social and political dimensions, we shall surely not escape the temptation to exploit the instrumental power born of our narrow and perverse anthropocentrism for totalitarian ends (EI 251).

While the soldiers of the radicals» class conflict changed from proletarians to people of color and victims of gender bias, the structure of the radical paradigm was maintained: the division of society into the «people» and those identified as the «enemies of the people,» into «us» and «them» — the prescription for cultural and political war.

I wanted to agree with my students; it's natural for Christians to insist that only our «Jesus bias» informs our political attitudes.

(Though according to Glenn Greenwald, Paul along with Edwards and Huckabee still aren't getting the recognition they deserve for reasons that reveal profound biases in our political system.)

And, accordingly, can be perceived as playing upon the emotional fears and biases of their constituents for their own political benefit at the expense of the very constituency who might elect them.

The emotionality embedded in identity issues must be accounted for as it is a strong generator of political biases within and across state borders.

Do they have blurbs in main articles pointing to percieved political biases (for example, MSNBC or NBC itself, or New York Times, all 3 of which are just as frequently accused of political bias in the other directon as Fox News is).

Do they have blurbs in main articles pointing to percieved political biases (for example, MSNBC or NBC itself, or New York Times?

Evidence on the ground in many mining communities shows clear political bias and discrimination in selecting people for skills training.

The former President criticized his successor for not showing his commitment to the promises he made to Ghanaians, to ensure opportunities for everyone devoid of political bias.

«Some voices, for political or ethnic reasons are making unguarded statements accusing the government and myself in particular of religious bias.

He said: «It is an open fact that the successive democratically elected governments in the State since 1999 have been totally committed to democratic principles, rule of law, strengthening of democratic institutions as well as implementation of programmes and policies that would enhance the wellbeing of all Lagosians, without bias for tribe, religion, political belief or gender.

Those who disagree with what she has fought for — namely equal marriage, the campaign against FGM and work to reduce gender and racial bias — are merely taking an easy shot at a political opponent.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

She said it will therefore be absurd for one to suggest that the implementation of a law passed by Parliament is a threat to media plurality and a calculated attempt by government to kill some radio stations because of their perceived political bias.

The fact that both political parties in this country are so utterly convinced that it's biased again them is probably the best evidence you could hope for that the BBC is doing its job.

This view of mass media as being partisan and untrustworthy was popular among Republicans well before Trump's entrance to political arena (and accounted for a big reason of popularity of Fox News cable channel, which positioned itself as «not liberal biased» from the start).

Assuming me to be a Conservative delegate, she went straight in for a sell based on open political bias.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

While in some instances this feedback is easy to see — changes in marine life after a water pollution event, for example — in other instances it can be subtle, variable and subject to distortions, which can include political motivation or bias.

This bias, say the authors, has a tendency to diminish the political dedication for preventative measures against extreme weather, regardless of whether they are caused or intensified by humanmade influences.

In response to separate allegations of political bias in its autocomplete algorithm, Google wrote in a June blog post that it designed its autocomplete algorithm to avoid completing searches for personal names with «offensive or disparaging» words.

Vote for everyone's best interest, and when you're forming your political beliefs, form them based on information and learning, not on the basis of quick thinking, anger or bias.»

As these changes almost dictate, there is also a shift in political partisanship: for with the socially disadvantaged comes a big influx of Democrats, and the original Republican bias is reduced considerably.

Constructively challenge teens» biased assumptions, many of which are explicit — for example, men are better political leaders and women are better childcare directors.

For educators, explaining this sociopolitical moment presents a unique challenge of how to present political situations without too much bias.

While he was unable to recall what the content specifically said, Johnson said that it was not right for children's homework to contain a political bias.

Policy makers, civic leaders, and media outlets are encouraged to scrutinize this report with skepticism, recognizing it for what it is: an error - ridden document commissioned by a biased organization with a political agenda and conclusion in mind.

«Far from being mere anecdotal incidents - and there are lot of those - political bias is becoming systemic in public school systems and has turned many public schools into indoctrination centers for progressive ideologies and causes.»

This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an «improved» use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective.Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking.

This has led to a political bias for steadily rising prices and stock values.

And that's not even getting into today's sorry excuse for a «media», which wear their political biases on their sleeve and will happily give scores based on how «moral» they think a game is rather than how good it actually is.

Through their work, they are searching for ways to make language testify to some socio - political injury that is otherwise structurally invisible most of the time: heteronormativity, media - bias, structural racism and sexism, psycho - normativity, the foundational nature of slavery to the US economy, and US - backed authoritarianism abroad.

They're fine for allowing a young rookie to get his or her name known in the business, but award juries are mostly biased, political, paranoid, incestuous, smug, nasty entities, a refuge for self - satisfied, backwards - looking mediocrity.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

Corresponding to her critically acclaimed exhibition Harriet Tubman and Other Truths [which was co-produced by Grounds For Sculpture and Goya Contemporary, with guest curators Patterson Sims and Lowery Sims], this latest exhibition [curated by Amy Eva Raehse] further develops narrative around social and political injustices, sexism, racism, violence, systems of power, and biases within the artist's personal history, and our collective experience.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

For example, before proposing that the expert consensus for AGW is politically biased, shouldn't you in all humility trace the political biases of Joseph Fourier, John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius and so forth through the present, and show us where a «liberal» bias crept For example, before proposing that the expert consensus for AGW is politically biased, shouldn't you in all humility trace the political biases of Joseph Fourier, John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius and so forth through the present, and show us where a «liberal» bias crept for AGW is politically biased, shouldn't you in all humility trace the political biases of Joseph Fourier, John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius and so forth through the present, and show us where a «liberal» bias crept in?

On the one hand, it is very important for the political right to have this echo chamber out there — and the arguments generated by conservative think tanks would interact with the biased reasoning processes that are the subject of my piece in a kind of one - two combination.

The core problem, I believe, is the interaction between our penchant for biased reasoning on the one hand, the deeply polarized political climate (which pushes emotional buttons rather than encouraging calm deliberation), and the rich misinformation environment (there's a ready - made argument in defense of anything and everything).

Perhaps the cognitive ability to consider variations that might be more successful has some correlation with the liberal political bias because the authoritarian preference for fixed forms among conservatives is less adaptive.

As an author of the paper calling for greater political diversity, my view is that the solution is NOT to defund fields where political bias is a problem.