Sentences with phrase «of other biases»

I believe many people don't recognize the far - reaching implications of their own actions (or lack there of), not out of narrow - mindedness, but out of other biases (e.g., cultural, educational, conditional, etc.), which appear as authority bias.

While it is not possible to eliminate this bias entirely due to the use of non-probability (self - selection) sampling, the study has put in place multiple measures to help mitigate this risk and the risk of other biases.

Yet the Buffetteers seem to only admire one tool for finding cheap stocks (size constraints), when myopia, ignorance, and a host of other biases are just as powerful in creating misvalued securities.

They are likely to view any policies proposed as expressive of other biases and interests.

Goodreads doesn't have people dropping one star on something just because they don't like the price it's selling for on the Kindle, or because the release date isn't what they want, or for any host of other biased reasons.

Not exact matches

In a sense, what Silver is pointing out is similar to what we see in the rise of so - called «fake news» that circulates through Facebook and other social platforms — namely, a massive case of confirmation bias.

Or as the research team puts it: «On the other hand, the bias may very well decrease the frequency of analytical reasoning by making it easy and commonplace for people to reach analytical response without engaging analytical processing.»

In practical business terms, if I quickly establish myself as credible through just a few good decisions in a row, a few good first impressions, or any other set of positive interactions, I am establishing positive confirmation bias.

Because even though the automobile, the airplane, the artificial heart, and a whole lot of other important products were invented far from the coasts, the bias against Middle America persists.

We must continue to foster an ecosystem where founders of any gender of startups and established companies alike can confront unconscious bias, develop the skills necessary to navigate and disarm the biases of others and become the role models necessary to dismantle systemic bias.

Carson and Leno played it straighter, but their tolerant - centrist orientation (sympathetic to gays and other minorities, scornful of the religious right) struck some conservatives as liberal bias.

Kids, like the rest of us, fall prey to this cognitive bias, which causes people to blame other people's bad actions on their horrible character and our own on circumstances beyond our control.

While she started her research last year, gender bias has long been a topic of debate at Facebook and other Silicon Valley tech giants.

In another one of our working papers, which links our result to various probability puzzles and statistical biases, we found that the simplest version of our problem is nearly equivalent to the famous Monty Hall problem, which stumped the eminent mathematician Paul Erdős and many other smart people.

These and other studies reveal the prevalence of what's called implicit bias, a scenario in which people screening resumes don't realize they are stereotyping non-white and non-male job candidates as less qualified.

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

This bias was demonstrated in an experiment at Stanford University in which a group of students was asked to guess the songs tapped by others on a table.

I encourage entrepreneurs and other readers to explore the many cognitive biases that affect their lives in various ways, and find effective tools to mitigate the negative effects of those biases.

It's a harder problem to solve - you can always improve the quality of information you spread, but it's harder to come up with a mathematical algorithm that sorts data that doesn't have some kind of bias, one way or the other.

Since Help Scout is a help desk, it would be foolish to claim that I'm approaching this without a slight brush of bias, but I promise you my stance comes from experience; specifically, seeing new founders suggest to other new founders why they think a convoluted system of Gmail filters is «okay for now.»

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced Thursday that it had reached a voluntary agreement with Airbnb to monitor whether some hosts on the platform act with racial or other forms of bias when choosing guests.

During the voir dire process the potential jurors come in and they're asked a series of questions by the parties and by the judge to determine whether each potential juror can be completely unbiased and impartial and objective, to make sure they're not biased towards one party or the other.

The written feedback means that one person's strong opinions will not bias the ideas of others.

You can't add another layer on top of that of worrying about other people's biases.

In a nutshell, because it has given more ammunition to supporters of Donald Trump and other right - wing gun advocates who argue that the media is biased against their cause and uses tricks to discredit them.

Lateralisation of limb use — that is, a bias towards one side or the other — usually begins in the brain.

Tom DiFilipo, president and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children's Services, said UNICEF and other institutions in the international aid community have a definite «bias» against international adoptions.

When the interests of successive layers of management are «aligned» in this manner, the corporation may become so biased toward the narrow interests of its current shareholders that it fails to meet the requirements of its customers or other constituencies.

This is true anywhere in the world, but if you move to downtown Vegas and bring with you the entrepreneurial qualities of resiliency, resourcefulness, and optimism, you're much more likely to form a strong network of true friendships with people who have a bias for building new relationships, looking out for each other, and helping each other out.

The other problem that he argues is exacerbated by mass surveillance ad - targeting online business models is filter bubbles — aka the strategy of platforms using people's own biases as a tactic to keep them clicking by reductively feeding them more of the same stuff.

Marlene Williamson, CEO of Watermark, a Silicon Valley organization dedicated to women in leadership, said not only will Kalanick's resignation help Uber get back on track — his departure will have ramifications for other Bay Area tech companies struggling with their own issues of gender bias and sexual harassment.

The private listing data in San Francisco is not as obviously skewed as some of the other cities we analyzed, but the maps above still show a bias toward zip codes in and around the more costly downtown area of the city.

Familiarity tends to produce a bias in people's evaluations of products and other people.

Still, bogus content on Facebook is arguably a symptom of a bigger problem — the «filter bubbles» created by blogs, social media, and other distribution platforms that help people consume only information that appeals to their existing biases and opinions.

«There are a great many Americans who I think are deeply concerned that Facebook and other tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship,» said Sen. Ted Cruz, R - Texas.

The result is that growth of «other exports» is artificially boosted, whereas growth rates for exports of metals and total resources are biased downwards.

Cruz said there are a «great many Americans who I think are deeply concerned that Facebook and other tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship.»

The Digital Currency Space includes a vast array of digital currencies competing against each other and being too biased on Bitcoin is not a community for Digital Currency enthusiasts.

In their March 2018 paper entitled «Self - Attribution Bias and Overconfidence Among Nonprofessional Traders», Daniel Czaja and Florian Röder employ data from a large European social trading platform to examine: (1) how self - enhancement (attributing successes to self) and self - protection (attributing failures to external factors) components of self - attribution bias affect non-professional trading performance; and, (2) how social trading platforms transfer any such effects to other non-professional traders.

I am immune to the contagions of other's moods, biases, and desires.

In other words, notable public discontent away from coastal regions need to be factored into investors» macro outlook, and if significant number of individuals consider a $ 400 emergency expenditure «more challenging to handle,» then investors should be biased to position portfolios more defensively (i.e. in curve steepeners).

Many debate if it's a problem of bias, pipeline, or other factors, but what we know for sure is the current state isn't good enough for the industry or Costanoa.»

To use smart algorithms responsibly, companies — particularly financial services firms — must identify potential problems early and have a well - conceived plan for addressing and removing unintended bias before it leads to discrimination in their lending practices, as well as potential discriminatory biases that may reach beyond lending and affect other aspects of a company's operations.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

The combination of fear, social proof [other investors are selling], loss aversion [we feel losses twice as much as gains] and recency bias [we overweigh what has happened recently and underweigh or ignore the long term evidence] counteract the average investors attempt to make a rational decision.

Neither light reading nor cheap (it's hard to find online for less than about $ 75), this book is the most thoughtful and objective analysis of the long - term returns on stocks, bonds, cash and inflation available anywhere, purged of the pom - pom waving and statistical biases that contaminate other books on the subject.

There is evidence of non-response bias for other ethnocultural variables (e.g., Filipino population group could be overestimated in the NHS).

It is true that people often believe things for bad reasons — self - deception, wishful thinking, and a wide variety of other cognitive biases really do cloud our thinking — but bad reasons only tend to work when they are unrecognized.

Can you see why equality under the law and equal rights for everyone means throwing out the bias of religion, as none of them agree with the others on anything.

Okay, here goes: You are engaging in a perceptual bias, a fallacious bit of reasoning, and you have no reasonable argument as to thinking some other species» mental idiocy to be significant in any way whatsoever beyond the mere biological curiosity of their neurological problems specific to them.