Sentences with phrase «human bias toward»

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In our video chat, he and the other authors acknowledged the challenge in gaining traction, even with such findings, given the deep - rooted human bias toward immediate gratification and the development and energy gaps that mean today's poorer nations have few affordable choices other than fossil fuels.

But does that knowledge of human biases toward the «near and now» get taken seriously in the realms where policies are shaped and the money to carry them out is authorized?

Not exact matches

The convergence model represents human communication as a dynamic, cyclical process over time, characterized by (1) mutual causation rather than one - way mechanistic causation, and emphasizing (2) the interdependent relationship of the participants, rather than a bias toward either the gisource» or the «receiver» of «messages.»

A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.

The host, «Brian Lehrer, I think, is a fine human being, and harbors no bias toward anyone,» said the mayor, who is also of Italian heritage.

In the case of Ebola, they argue that the sampling of fruit bats after human outbreaks may have biased subsequent investigations toward bat - Ebola virus ecology, and other, possible host species may have been overlooked.

Our knowledge of eye growth is meager by comparison to brain growth, and heavily biased toward anthropoids (humans and macaques in particular --[14]--[17]; but see [8] regarding fetal growth of the eyes in Tarsius bancanus).

Human physiology is biased toward fat - burning.

My own biases point me toward the coming surge of inexpensive, ubiquitous, accessible human enhancements — from prosthetics that enhance our motor outputs to sensory input devices that will give us entirely new perceptual experiences.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Human nature and the political systems that are shaped by it both create a bias toward the near and now.

My emphasis on the second component derives from all the biases toward the quick fix that are built into the human brain, political institutions and culture.

Bleating bias — the panel skewed toward the widely held scientific consensus that climate change is real and humans are causing it — the infiltrator proceeded to hijack the panel.

The human brain is biased toward the negative; the amygdala is constantly trying to sniff out trouble, to protect us so we can survive.