Sentences with phrase «ideological bias for»

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James Damore was fired by Google on Monday for circulating «Google's Ideological Echo Chamber,» a highly controversial 10 - page memo suggesting that women are underrepresented at the company because of biological differences that make them less inclined to tech and leadership roles and not because of bias.

(c) Because these interests are socioculturally situated they are diversely concrete, threatening to fragment «understandings» of God, and they are open to the suspicion of ideological bias; but because they are interests in God the capacities they guide also require cultivation of capacities for conversation with other concrete understandings and capacities for critique of ideological self - deceptions.

Our way of reading must therefore be examined for its implicit ideological bias and blindness.

Lacking a fertile ideological soil on which to stake a claim — even in respect to the once fashionable ideology of liberation for the blacks, the poor, the Third World — the theologian purports to turn his back on all ideologies and reclaim «raw» consciousness, which supposedly is free of any group or material biases.

While Sidney B. Simon at the University of Massachusetts and his colleagues claim that their values - clarification approach «does not aim to instill any particular set of values,» they certainly reveal their ideological bias toward the autonomous, bourgeois, rationalistic self when they talk about «learning a process for selecting the best and rejecting the worst elements contained in the various value systems.

These ideas of ideological bias are harder to dismiss when supreme court justices vote in a way that benefits the party that nominated them (as is true for the majority voting both sides of this case).

Wintemute's rigor has earned the respect of some ideological opponents, but others say that his work betrays antigun biases by, for instance, selectively citing the literature in a way that minimizes the value of firearms for self - defense.

Steiner faults courses in teacher education for what he perceives as ideological bias - specifically, for their contemporary and Western orientation.

Bring open eyes and an open mind, for if you cherish the ox of any aesthetic of ideological bias, de Kooning will gore it.

When scientists and advocates, motivated by these biased perceptions, take action by responding with tit - for - tat attacks on climate skeptics, it takes energy and effort away from offering a positive message and engagement campaign that builds public support for climate action and instead feeds a downward spiral of «war» and conflict rhetoric that appears as just more ideological rancor to the wider public.

I was interested in the climate wars prior to that — but hearing what she had to say piqued my interest because for quite a while I have been interested in what sorts of things bias how people reason I have been particularly interested in how people use pattern - finding to make sense of the world, and how people's cultural / social / ideological / experiential / psychological identifications affect their cognition and reasoning.

Fox's ideological bias is so well - known it's like the air around us; taken for granted.

For example, if you agree that people of all ideological and cultural and political stripes are vulnerable to identity - oriented «motivated - reasoning,» then what do you think about articles that finger point about about the biases among «liberal» scientists even as the political orientation of the author is dismissed as a potentially relevant factor?

The study also found that awareness of the scientific consensus can even offset ideological biases — «Consensus information also neutralizes the effect of worldview» (see this post for more details on this paper).

For sure we know there is a strong ideological bias and corresponding identity association, or you wouldn't get that polarization.

Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.

This polarization is a classic sign of ideological / cultural bias, yet your assignment of «correct» to one side automatically colors the rest of your investigation to only look for that bias on the opposite, Rep / Con side, and this is what drives the whole scope of your explanations above.

You reference several blog posts by J. Duarte - who seems to feel that the Cook et al authors were dishonest idiots (the paper passed peer review of methods and results by reviewers the editors respected for domain knowledge), that the raters were blinded by ideological bias (totally ignoring the author ratings giving confirming identical results), complaining about raters discussing criteria (when it's essential for everyone to agree on the same critera, clarifying ambiguities - and that radom presentation prevented collusion on any particular item), and in general making truly absurd and unsupported accusations.

Back in the day when science was not questioned because sciences asked questions instead of as the case for AGW where science just supplies answeres without even a question being asked, data physical measurement, and strict adherence to the scientific method were what drove science and there was no political or ideological influences biasing whart was done.