Sentences with phrase «of systemic bias»

An outspoken critic of the systemic bias against pro se litigants, she is a key member of the team that created LegalYou as the answer to the staggering access to justice problem that has plagued middle and lower income families.

In 1998, under the leadership of Executive Director Steve Jubb, BayCES changed its name to the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools to emphasize our focus on addressing disparities among student groups that we believe arise from racism, classicism, language bias, and other forms of systemic bias.

It is not just the quality of data collection that worries me, but, more importantly, the prevalence in China of systemic biases in the way the data is collected.

An excellent discussion of these systemic biases can be found in an article by the prolific writer Ida Abbott (www.idaabbott.com/publications/articles) titled «How Political Dynamics Undermine Gender Balance in Law Firm Leadership and What Your Firm Must Do About It.»

Not exact matches

Systemic biases, legacy barriers, and current explosions of inequality conspire to undermine wealth generation among minorities, and especially women in these communities.

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.

Science itself can drive our conversations about the importance of diversity, as it provides us with the data to understand how systemic bias and discrimination impact our communities and how best to change it.»

The systemic bias against women that exists in the VC - startup world yields investment opportunities, said Jason Seats, managing partner at the Austin location of the Colorado - based Techstars Central LLC accelerator.

Collectively, this disparity fuels what has been called the «school - to - prison - pipeline,» a systemic bias that civil rights advocates say pushes children and young adults of color out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system.

Saying that you're dedicated to tearing down systemic race - based bias doesn't mean that you have to make sure that you go hug a black person, it means that you no longer find yourself as the center and most important part of your story.

Moreover, samples are often unrepresentative of the population, introducing systemic biases by overweighting the preferences of certain demographics: Yair Lapid had always predicted that he would win more seats than he was forecast, because pollsters relied on calling people by landline, and his supporters, predominantly young, had only mobile phones.

Late 1960s In a series of experiments, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrate the downside of the way humans make decisions, identifying several unconscious, systemic biases that consistently distort human judgment.

In fact, it increasingly appears that, if there is any systemic bias in the climate models, it's that they understate the gravity of the situation.

«There is kind of a systemic racial bias pretty much in every dating site I've ever looked at,» Rudder said in his interview.

March 27, 2018 • Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a «systemic and unconscious bias» against women that is rooted in «what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.»

It says ««we have found enough evidence of legally actionable gender bias going on with a certain company, or group of companies, and it's so systemic that we're actually going to charge all the major studios or TV networks or even the talent agencies.»»

«To see a woman operate successfully, but still find those barriers a result of that historical and systemic bias in her pursuit to the top, is a really interesting struggle.

The summit's agenda was to «drill into the systemic causes of gender bias in the industry and craft solutions,» a spokesperson said in a statement.

Even more, we know that students of color are most likely to be taught by white women, so larger systemic shifts are necessary to ensure that hiring managers recognize and counteract institutional biases that prioritize creating formal and functional opportunities for women of color to drive change.

Since schools and teachers are not always equipped to serve their students effectively, over time, small everyday practices of educators and school leaders can amount to systemic institutional bias.

Two years in a row, teachers responded that they desperately wanted the type of training that Equity & Diversity University provides (i.e. explicit conversations around implicit bias, racism and systemic oppression, culturally responsive classrooms, family engagement strategies).

Systemic and / or historic issues such as individual and institutionalized racism and classism; language barriers; gender bias; cultural blinders and a variety of prejudices represent profound challenges and obstacles to positive parent - teacher relationships.

«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.»

A selection of Cindy Sherman's legendary «Untitled Film Stills» serves as a bridge between the necessarily aggressive second - wave feminism of the 1960s and»70s and our modern era, where women have emerged on the mainstage of artistic innovation but still find themselves struggling with deep cultural undercurrents of bias and systemic suppression.

Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a «systemic and unconscious bias» against women that is rooted in «what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.»

It's more about systemic bias, the ultimate source of funding unavoidably having some influence — eg by selecting which institutions get money.

Now for climate change work, we don't care so much about the actual temperature, but do want to know about the trend, so it is possible to create an alternative algorithm that is free from the systemic biases caused by attempts to merge thousands of low grade temperature records together.

Use of anomalies also removes any potential systemic bias in those measurements.

by Zeke Hausfather All of these changes introduce (non-random) systemic biases into the network.

In fact, it increasingly appears that, if there is any systemic bias in the climate models, it's that they understate the gravity of the situation.

Could unrecognized systemic bias from excluded or unrecognized physics be causing the major disconnect between observations of climate sensitivity and projections from global climate models?

Jeff Tollefson in Nature points to the 2C scenarios in the fifth IPCC report as a source of hope for policymakers, yet their unreasonable reliance upon negative emissions technologies like BECCS — a systemic bias, as Chris Mooney in the Washington Post reports — suggest there's limited or distorted hope in models.

Extrapolation of a lot of data that comes from places that probably have a systemic bias built in being used to paint a picture that seems to vary signficantly from the real world.

The notion of cascading systemic bias, induced by government funding, does not appear to have been studied much.

With any automated homogenization approach, it is critically important that the algorithm be tested with synthetic data with various types of biases introduced (step changes, trend inhomogenities, sawtooth patterns, etc.), to ensure that the algorithm will identically deal with biases in both directions and not create any new systemic biases when correcting inhomogenities in the record.

While some variance of this is expected, as observers won't reset the instrument at the same time every day, these departures should be mostly random and won't necessarily introduce systemic bias.

Between 1960 and today, the majority of stations switched from a late afternoon to an early morning observation time, resulting a systemic change (and resulting bias) in temperature observations.

As such, they were «entirely congruent» with the complaint of institutional bias the Registrant sought to have heard by the Committee, which was essentially a complaint of systemic discrimination because of racial origin.

The JAAC is bringing in the OHRC to strengthen member training and education in the hopes of addressing any systemic barriers — such as unconscious bias — that may exist in the recruitment process.

The fact that many of the stops of racialized men for «criminal offences» and «suspicious activities» did not lead to a charge, arrest or detention suggests that racial profiling — through conscious or unconscious bias, systemic racism, or otherwise — may indeed be responsible for the large number of unnecessary stops.

Would Robo Cops eliminate racial bias or merely reflect the systemic nature of racism?

This shows a systemic bias against protests in common law courts and the lack of implementation of Charter rights when corporations sue individuals and community groups.

The danger of AI is algorithms that are designed on historic / past patterns of decision - making in case law which may be inherently flawed / biased and do not address systemic / institutional problems and biases.

«A constitutional rule that racial bias in the justice system must be addressed — including, in some instances, after the verdict has been entered — is necessary to prevent a systemic loss of confidence in jury verdicts, a confidence that is a central premise of the Sixth Amendment trial right,» Kennedy said.

Our research methods in this study included a respectful approach to women's lived experiences, informed by the recognition of existing inequalities, systemic discrimination, and gender bias in our society.

Although anchoring biases, difficulties in predicting the duration and degree of a crime victim's future emotional response, and poorly written jury instructions challenge juries, each of these impediments can be counteracted through thoughtful and conscientious systemic responses.

«If you think there might be significant biases embedded in emails sent among employees of Texas oil - and - gas company that collapsed under federal investigation for fraud stemming from systemic, institutionalized unethical culture, you'd be right.»

The Copyright Office has come under scrutiny for alleged systemic bias in favor of major media and entertainment companies to the detriment of Internet users, technology companies, and independent creators.

But said it found no evidence of systemic political bias, though it couldn't discount that a lone wolf might be able to game its system.

This is likely a consequence of the systemic barriers that hamper access to higher education and training for people of color, as well as the more implicit biases that continue to affect wages and upward mobility within a given career field.