Assessing bias in patient safety reporting by physician gender, race, ethnicity, faculty rank
About The Study: This study of 401 patient safety reports examined whether there is bias in how events are reported ...
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How a cognitive bias is blocking the rise of electric cars
What are the barriers to the adoption of electric cars? Although the main financial and technological obstacles have been removed, ...
Demographics, not bias, best predict traffic stops
When it comes to predicting how often Black drivers will be stopped by traffic police versus how often white drivers ...
Forewarning messages and annotations effectively raised study participants’ awareness of potential bias in political news articles
Forewarning messages and annotations effectively raised study participants' awareness of potential bias in political news articles Credit: Spinde et al., ...
‘Threatening’ faces and beefy bodies do not bias criminal suspect identification, study finds
We’re all familiar with the classic “look” of a movie bad guy: peering through narrowing eyes with a sinister sneer ...
Researchers outline bias in epidemic research—and offer new simulation tool to guide future work
A team of researchers unpacks a series of biases in epidemic research, ranging from clinical trials to data collection, and ...
‘Off label’ use of imaging databases could lead to bias in AI algorithms, study finds
Significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past decade have relied upon extensive training of algorithms using massive, open-source ...
New in the Hastings Center Report: Bias and inaccuracy in marketing noninvasive prenatal tests
Bias and inaccuracy are pervasive in the marketing of noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs), concludes an early-view study in the Hastings ...
Google’s ‘CEO’ image search gender bias hasn’t really been fixed
We use Google's image search to help us understand the world around us. For example, a search about a certain ...
Researchers find new way to amplify trustworthy news content on social media without shielding bias
TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 3, 2022) – Social media sites continue to amplify misinformation and conspiracy theories. To address this concern, ...
Gender bias in lab groups not rooted in personal preference
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Gender bias in physics labs – where women typically work more on the computer and on communication tasks, ...
Fossil research affected by significant colonial bias, study finds
The fossil record, which documents the history of life on Earth, is heavily biased by influences such as colonialism, history ...
A new way to find genetic variations removes bias from human genotyping
Credit: Photo by Elena Zhukova Since the first sequencing of the human genome more than 20 years ago, the study ...
New research in JNCCN raises concerns about clinical trial bias from undisclosed censoring
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA — New research in the December 2021 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network found ...
Persistent gender bias found in scientific research and related course materials: A long-term linguistic analysis
Two companion research articles published in the current issue of Language point to persistent gender bias in both peer-reviewed journal ...
Massive study reveals editorial bias and nepotism in biomedical journals
Scientific journals are expected to consider research manuscripts dispassionately and without favor. But in a study publishing on November 23rd ...
Clinician peer networks remove race and gender bias
A University of Pennsylvania study published today in Nature Communications offers striking evidence that network science can be used to ...
UTA researchers combatting bias in web database applications
A computer science and engineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington is using a grant from the National ...
Banishing bias across disciplines, genders and experience — new tool for fairer research metrics
h-index, g-index, i10 index, m-quotient, Journal Impact Factor, Altmetrics … it’s long been an intractable issue plaguing the research community — how to assess ...
Study shows motivation is key for teachers to overcome racial bias in classroom
New research focused on college students training to become K-12 teachers emphasizes the need to recruit and enroll more diverse ...