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Racial bias in criminal news reporting in the United States is a manifestation of this bias. (wikipedia.org)
Racial bias has been recorded in criminal news reporting from the United States, particularly with regard to African American individuals, and a perceived fear of African Americans among European and White Americans. (wikipedia.org)
Dana Mastro's research on racial bias in the United States reveals persistent racial prejudice among whites, characterizing African Americans as violent and aggressive. (wikipedia.org)
Multiple prestigious US biomedical research awards have rarely or never been granted to a scientist with Asian ancestry, illustrating racial bias within American research societies and institutions, a researcher argues. (the-scientist.com)
Justifying science funding through the lens of global competition risks fostering racial bias and discrimination. (the-scientist.com)
The biggest concern with the technology is the same concern across America right now: Racial bias. (nbc-2.com)
Questions about racial bias in the criminal justice system have been front and center since protests erupted across the country following the death of George Floyd after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on the handcuffed Black man's neck for several minutes. (indianapublicmedia.org)

Racial biases are a form of implicit bias, which refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect an individual's understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. (wikipedia.org)
Police officers have implicit bias, regardless of their ethnicity. (wikipedia.org)
Veda Handa LLM'22 shares her reflections on the Spring 2022 "Policy Lab on AI and Implicit Bias" with Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis . (upenn.edu)
This spring, I joined a vibrant group of nearly 40 students in the "Policy Lab on Artificial Intelligence and Implicit Bias" at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, hoping to learn about ways to free algorithmic systems of structural biases. (upenn.edu)
Structural racism and implicit bias can play a role in the disparity. (cdc.gov)
Implicit bias is a well-recognized contributor to the ongoing dilemma of healthcare disparities. (medscape.com)

Media Matters also recently revealed an internal Fox News email in which Sammon ordered network journalists to stop using the phrase "public option" in favor of a term cooked up by prominent Republican pollster Frank Luntz , who was helping Republicans turn public opinion against health care reform. (prwatch.org)
The mere existence of a bias in favor of the legalization of abortion" on the part of three judges "raises questions about their impartiality and good faith" the group added. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Our press is biased in favor of America and its allies, and not fair to opponents of America, like Cuba, North Korea, and Iran. (blogspot.com)

It's no secret in 2019 that objective media sources are being drowned out by outlets producing extremely subjective content or even "fake" news. (sanjosepeace.org)
In 2019, Anaïs Llorens and Athina Tzovara - one a current, the other a former University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral scholar at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) - were attending a scientific meeting and pleased that one session, on gender bias in academia, attracted nearly a full house. (neurosciencenews.com)

Unconscious gender bias can be especially difficult to identify, as it is frequently part of organizational systems and processes that developed over time (e.g., performance evaluations that reward stereotypically male criteria)," the report reads. (heraldextra.com)
We know that actions like hiring and retaining a diverse workforce and providing health care provider trainings on unconscious bias and stigma can help improve the quality of care. (cdc.gov)

It was a pleasure seeing computer scientists, engineers, lawyers, policy-makers and business-persons join hands to engage in a discourse on systemic biases in AI and how these can be mitigated. (upenn.edu)
The research refers to this effect as "serial dependence", which describes a systemic bias towards recent past experience. (neurosciencenews.com)
In contrast, for CCP, the severity of health effects generally, skin, eye, and upper respiratory irritation and, rarely, sensitization or systemic reactions did not meet the same level of concern, nor was the strength of the association (generally odds ratios less than 2.0 and extensive potential for recall bias) or experimental evidence strong enough to generate an Alert. (cdc.gov)

When maths teachers think gender equality has been achieved and women no longer face discrimination, they tend to be biased against girls' mathematical abilities . (ericsson.com)
In addition, numerous court decisions, such as those barring racial discrimination in jury selection5 and those permitting the consideration of race and ethnicity in college decisions,6 have tried to eliminate opportunities for bias or correct for past discrimination. (prisonlegalnews.org)
To address racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality, CDC supports the work of Maternal Mortality Review Committees around the country to get quality data about the circumstances surrounding a pregnancy-related death, including the documentation of bias, discrimination, and racism. (cdc.gov)

Prosecutors and judges see no evidence that Capitol rioters can't get a fair trial in the district and believe the process of weeding out biased jurors is working. (apnews.com)

Since such examples are so difficult to come by, media bias scholars must continue to search for best ways to measure that concept. (salon.com)
The US Congress and media says political bias is impacting social media and search engines. (equities.com)
According to the US Congress and media coverage, political bias is impacting both top social media sites and search engines. (equities.com)
And in that world, wouldn't it be a shame if it is considered to have a political bias the same way search engines and social media are today? (equities.com)

On 17-21 October 2022, 37 scientists from 12 countries met in Lyon to participate in a Scientific Workshop on Epidemiological Bias Assessment in Cancer Hazard Identification , which was jointly convened by the Monographs programme of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics of the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI). (who.int)

Twitter, one of the more widely used forms of social media, with over 271 million active users, is the choice of the Millennial generation to get breaking news. (wikipedia.org)
Take a recent example, when the GOP complained on Twitter that 92 percent of immigration news coverage related to President Donald Trump's policies is negative. (salon.com)
The group also rated Google's parent company Alphabet and Facebook owner Meta as highly prone to bias, together with Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit. (rt.com)

Despite these widespread beliefs, academics are unable to agree on whether the media are, in fact, biased. (salon.com)
These prejudices "are widespread among men and women suggesting that these biases are deeply embedded and influences both men and women to similar degrees", the report says. (khaleejtimes.com)

Staying updated on COVID-19 variants can prove challenging to online users who can face a continual flow of news about the disease and its developments, leading them to a sense of fatigue and potentially making them more susceptible to resharing known conspiracy theories about the pandemic through confirmation bias or social media echo chambers. (who.int)

Trump's lawyers had suggested for weeks that they would ask for a mistrial, first raising the issue after the conservative news site Breitbart News published a citizen complaint in early November that accused Engoron's chief law clerk, Allison Greenfield, of violating court rules by making monetary donations to Democratic causes. (wkrn.com)

The aim of the workshop was to bring together global experts in cancer epidemiology and statistical methodology to develop a toolkit of methods to evaluate bias and confounding in cancer epidemiology studies. (who.int)
We are pleased to announce that the IARC Monographs programme and the National Cancer Institute, USA, are jointly conducting a scientific workshop convening experts in statistical and epidemiological methodology who will examine and compile developments relevant to the assessment of bias (including its direction and magnitude) in observational epidemiology studies. (who.int)

Just be sure you are using news sources thoughtfully so you don't unintentionally spread misinformation about topics you care about. (sanjosepeace.org)

An important goal here is to improve how we, in the presence of our biases, collectively consume online news stories and engage in the discourse that surrounds them. (hawaii.edu)

Stair climbing was self-reported via questionnaires and recall bias is a possibility. (medscape.com)

She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports. (cbsnews.com)
This is a very real trend in local news, with local outlets covering more national stories than in the past. (gallup.com)
Some media outlets stoke our cognitive biases by presenting opinions or persuasive editorials (sometimes presented as facts or without including facts), propaganda, made-up facts or only part of the whole story. (sanjosepeace.org)
In other words, mainstream news outlets in America, liberal or conservative, suffer from a patriotic bias. (blogspot.com)

A July 20 report , analyzing news content from The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that Republican politicians get roughly 2.5 times as many mentions as Democrats. (salon.com)
However, if you look at the original article on the BBC News site , this isn't content from the article itself, as News Sniffer records it, but the captions for the photgraphs included in the article, which have changed. (currybet.net)
They also cause consumers of local news to express concern for a variety of reasons, including cuts in staffing and resources, the nationalization of news content, and the potential for greater bias in news coverage. (gallup.com)
In addition, planners have reviews content to ensure there is no bias. (cdc.gov)

Today we are talking about GSMA's latest Mobile Gender Gap report, flexible working for onsite workers, gender bias at school, and an autism-friendly city in the US. (ericsson.com)
Our conversations with technologists such as Deborah Raji further taught us that implicit biases in technology can run across gender, race, and class divides. (upenn.edu)
With a focus on the Global South and gender equality, we attempted to identify a new generation of biases such as immigration status, zip code, and address, etc., creeping across AI tools. (upenn.edu)
On Wednesday, the Utah Women & Leadership Project released a research and policy brief on perceptions of gender bias in the Utah workplace by evaluating wages, education, health and political empowerment. (heraldextra.com)
Biases may be rooted in expectations around gender roles-what behaviors are considered appropriate for men and women in different settings-that developed through societal conditioning. (heraldextra.com)
Depending on participants' response to the question of their gender, participants were then asked to complete the original Gender Bias Scale developed for women or a modified GBS adapted for men. (heraldextra.com)
The study findings confirm that women and men in Utah's workplaces perceive gender bias differently - women perceive it to a larger degree. (heraldextra.com)
Male privilege was the gender bias factor with the largest differences in perception between men and women, consistent with literature reporting that male privilege may be invisible to those who benefit from it. (heraldextra.com)
For instance, future research should consider how men and women perceive racial or age bias and how each interacts with perceptions of gender bias. (heraldextra.com)
The application process is transparent and blinded for name, age, gender, and university to minimise potential recruitment bias. (imperial.ac.uk)
Smash down the concrete walls': How do we abolish gender bias in the Australian construction industry? (abc.net.au)
Despite significant movements such as MeToo, gender bias against women has barely decreased during the past decade. (khaleejtimes.com)
Among both men and women, "biased gender social norms are prevalent worldwide: almost 90 per cent of people have at least one bias" among the seven analysed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). (khaleejtimes.com)
Without tackling biased gender social norms, we will not achieve gender equality or the Sustainable Development Goals," it said. (khaleejtimes.com)
The lack of progress on gender biases comes as the UN also reports declining human development metrics in general, linked in particular to the Covid-19 pandemic. (khaleejtimes.com)
Researchers set forth a new summary of the forms gender bias can take and propose a new checklist to remedy the problems they discovered. (neurosciencenews.com)
More than 75% of all tenured faculty in Ph.D. programs around the world are men, making their participation key to solving the problem of gender bias, which negatively impacts the careers, work-life balance and mental health of all women in science, and even more so for minority women and members of the LGBTQ+ community. (neurosciencenews.com)
That was only one of the incidents that led the two women to round up 45 men and women from 40 institutions across 10 countries and 18 nationalities, divide them into small groups and task them with scouring the literature for practical tips - proven and unproven - on how best to counteract all aspects of gender bias in academia. (neurosciencenews.com)
The study, with Llorens and Tzovara as first authors, appears today in the journal Neuron , and provides a comprehensive summary of the many forms that gender bias takes, along with a checklist that individuals, lab leaders, university administrators, journal editors and grant reviewers at funding agencies can use to remedy them. (neurosciencenews.com)
In a Q&A, Llorens and Tzovara talk about their motivations and the problem of gender bias in the ivied halls. (neurosciencenews.com)

Although most people probably bring their own inherent biases with them when they enter the healthcare workforce, it is also known that they may acquire biases along the way as a result of interactions with other clinicians, including during education and training. (medscape.com)

It's unsurprising that, in a time when Republicans dominate politically, they also dominate in political news coverage. (salon.com)
Previous research from Gallup and the Knight Foundation established that perceived bias in news coverage is a top concern for Americans in the current politically polarized climate. (gallup.com)

In rebuttal, the first camp cite the "biases and errors" from the third quoted sentence. (cdc.gov)

The commissioner's office also had questions about a 2020 cyberthreat assessment that then health minister John Haggie spoke publicly about last year, to rebut CBC News reporting about flaws identified in the system by a consultant. (cbc.ca)
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh decided to attend to question Johnston himself, and in the hearing he went down a line of inquiry focused on on the former governor general's "appearance of bias" and what underpinned his assessment that neither the prime minister nor his ministers have "knowingly or negligently failing to act. (ctvnews.ca)

A researcher at Birzeit University submitted findings Saturday outlining what she found to be un-objective coverage around "the question of Palestine" on BBC Arabic's broadcast news. (blogspot.com)
So, according to this unbiased Palestinian Arab researcher, the BBC should call the Israel Defense Forces the "Israel Offense Forces" because, in her weird world, that wouldn't be biased. (blogspot.com)

But this shift appears to stem from decisions made by local news organizations, rather than a response to increased consumer demand for such news. (gallup.com)

The journal Ethology is the first to adopt the guidelines, aimed at clarifying experimental design and the potential biases within. (the-scientist.com)
This latest survey finds that although majorities are concerned with all three potential risks to local news, the political views of national owners influencing local news coverage troubles Americans the most. (gallup.com)
All express concern over these three risks of national news ownership of local news but show particular concern about the potential for political bias. (gallup.com)
The latest Gallup/Knight polling builds on these findings and shows that Americans' greatest concern about the trend of ownership consolidation of local news is the potential for political bias seeping into their local news coverage. (gallup.com)
This concern is far greater than concerns about potential budget cuts or a decrease in unique local news coverage. (gallup.com)
However, the potential for selection bias is frequently overlooked when linked data is available only for a subset of patients. (lu.se)
We highlight the importance of accounting for potential selection bias by evaluating the association between antipsychotics and type 2 diabetes in youths within a claims database linked to a smaller laboratory database. (lu.se)
Linked database studies may generate biased estimates without proper adjustment for potential selection bias. (lu.se)

Surveys repeatedly show the overwhelming proportion of reporters identify as Democrats , which further reinforces the perception among conservative Americans that reporters are biased against them. (salon.com)

If a Democratic president imposed similar immigration policies and the resulting coverage was more positive, that would indicate political bias. (salon.com)

The UK Biobank participants do not represent the entire population of the country, with a healthy volunteer selection bias previously reported. (medscape.com)

Instead of assessing the factuality of news claims, our work explores the impact of these claims on reader beliefs. (hawaii.edu)

Facebook disproportionately shows certain types of job ads to men and women, raising questions about efforts to eliminate bias in its algorithms, according to University of Southern California (USC) researchers. (acm.org)

In short, many on both ends of the political spectrum view the media as biased against their political side. (salon.com)
With the 2017 Alabama senate race as the empirical context, we examine how readers on both sides of the political spectrum evaluate online news stories considering their preconceived beliefs and values. (hawaii.edu)

If a sweeping generalization or unlikely detail shows up in one article but not the others, you can assume that it is a suspicious, and likely biased, claim. (sanjosepeace.org)

Growing ranks of researchers on the spectrum are overcoming barriers-from neurotypical bias to sensory sensitivities-to shape autism science. (the-scientist.com)
One of the reasons that it's so difficult to measure bias is that researchers struggle to establish a baseline of what the unbiased coverage should look like. (salon.com)

The study conducted in the article Race and Punishment states that current crime coverage strategies aim to increase in the importance of a crime, thus distorting the public sense of who commits crimes, and leads to biased reactions. (wikipedia.org)
Another study by Dixon and Williams had also concluded that is still the case in cable news channels with one difference. (wikipedia.org)
This particular study also came to the conclusion that when studying this bias they would need to include a larger population of programs with more "polarizing on-air" personality, and across different parts of the country with different age groups. (wikipedia.org)
A recent Pew study found that most Americans think their local news media are doing well financially, despite evidence to the contrary. (gallup.com)
The study, focusing on the daily news program World News This Evening's broadcasts between 8 November and 8 December 2008, found external political motivations swayed coverage of Palestine only weeks before Israel launched its Operation Cast Lead on 26 December 2008. (blogspot.com)
Masters student Buthayna Hamdan, who pioneered the study, explained that she measured the objectivity of the reports by BBC's own standards, and basic precepts of news coverage. (blogspot.com)
During the study period, the research found 25 news events in Palestine, including the death, injury and detention of Palestinians including children, that went unreported by the news program. (blogspot.com)
The entire association [seen in INTERPHONE] can be explained by bias," said Joachim Schz from the German study. (cdc.gov)
Short bursts of high-intensity stair climbing are a time-efficient way to improve cardiorespiratory fitness and lipid profile , especially among those unable to achieve the current physical activity recommendations," study author Lu Qi, with Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, said in a news release . (medscape.com)

We then prepared a class report setting out our key findings from the data collected, including the algorithmic biases that we identified as having bled into AI-driven recruitment mechanisms. (upenn.edu)
Media Matters uncovered another internal email sent out by Fox News ' Washington, D.C. Managing Editor Bill Sammon which ordered Fox Network journalists to slant coverage of the climate change issue by "refrain[ing] from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. (prwatch.org)
Data tracking biases against women has shown no progress over the past decade, with prejudices remaining "deeply embedded" in society despite rights campaigns such as MeToo, a UN report said Monday. (khaleejtimes.com)
The data was clear: observers don't rate each painting consistently but are biased by what they just saw. (neurosciencenews.com)

De-Mainstream YouTube is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and other browsers based on Firefox or Chromium code, that reduces the bias of the YouTube algorithm in regards to mainstream media. (ghacks.net)
Perceived bias in the news reduces trust, which could erode overall trust in local news as an institution. (gallup.com)

Exposure of the two emails has led the Los Angeles Times to print a rare rebuke of another mainstream news organization in an editorial saying that Fox News needs to either "come clean" about the partisanship within its newsrooms, or "stop pretending to be an objective news source. (prwatch.org)
Less than half can name an objective news source. (gallup.com)

Analyses of television news consistently indicate that African American males are overrepresented as perpetrators and underrepresented as victims, compared to both their white male counterparts on TV as well as real-world Department of Justice arrest reports. (wikipedia.org)

But the summons argues Justice Blanch demonstrated 'apprehended bias' in his conduct of the inquiry, by constraining the scope of the inquiry, and by refusing Folbigg leave to lead evidence about the context of her diaries. (abc.net.au)

News provided by The Associated Press. (cbsnews.com)
The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. (apnews.com)

We further discovered several contexts, as varied as housing, social media platforms, and primary education, where such biases have trickled. (upenn.edu)
Verifying the information presented on social media or in any article or story is essential to confirming whether or not it is biased and, if so, if that bias has resulted in fake news. (sanjosepeace.org)
How can we critically examine media, breakdown and recovery across news, radio and television, film, arts and museums, digital and social media? (lu.se)

A common rallying cry among conservatives is that the media have a liberal bias . (salon.com)

So, does the Media Matters report - which demonstrates that the mainstream newspapers cited 2.5 times as many Republicans than Democrats in May and June of this year - really show media bias? (salon.com)
In my doctoral dissertation, I examined over 170,000 news stories from The New York Times and Washington Post, like the original report, but over a much longer period of time. (salon.com)
More than a year ago, CBC News asked for that report, through an access-to-information request. (cbc.ca)
Alexa, play the Yonder Report podcast' or 'Alexa, what's my news flash? (publicnewsservice.org)
Following the analysis, and citing works by British journalist Robert Fisk, the report suggested that BBC Arabic's news coverage was influenced by an Israeli lobby , and a mass supply of Israeli government-produced news and information. (blogspot.com)
These types of stories are frequently seen on websites like InfoWars and FOX News on the right and Alternet and the Bipartisan Report on the left. (sanjosepeace.org)

And people have their own biases. (equities.com)
There is this notion of survivorship bias - often we look at people who have made it, and we forget all the people who did not have a straightforward career path and are not there yet. (neurosciencenews.com)

The idea of monitoring BBC News for changes is one that has been done before for the homepage alone as one of the backstage.bbc.co.uk prototypes - "BBC News front page archive" by Matthew Somerville - and I know one member of BBC staff who built a similar system for inside the BBC that showed up differences in articles as they were republished. (currybet.net)

More than nine in 10 Americans are 'very' (66%) or 'somewhat' (26%) concerned that the owners' views would influence coverage if a large company purchased their local news organization. (gallup.com)

Get the latest significant legal alerts, news, webinars, and insights that affect your industry. (ballardspahr.com)

Denmark's Novo Nordisk Foundation says it hopes that adding a randomization step to its award process will reduce implicit biases in selection and lead to funding more innovative, impactful research. (the-scientist.com)
Selection bias related to parental As unta M, Chapman S (20 4a). (who.int)

Is the site biased? (ghacks.net)
It is a site that monitors online news output to detect revision and bias. (currybet.net)
One of the articles from the BBC News site that has had the most votes for bias is this one . (currybet.net)
On the News Sniffer blog I saw that the person behind the site had recently contacted Biased BBC about it . (currybet.net)
One commenter suggested that the News Sniffer site would turn out to be biased itself. (currybet.net)

dangerous idea: What is the great bias of the mainstream news media? (blogspot.com)

It attempts to capture all the comments that have been moderated off the BBC News " Have Your Say " section. (currybet.net)
Attempts to Address Bias in the Justice System. (prisonlegalnews.org)

The Scientist interviewed clinical pharmacologist Clara Locher, coauthor of a new survey aimed at detecting editorial bias, regarding her team's findings about biomedical publishing. (the-scientist.com)
Many readers interpreted its findings as evidence of media bias. (salon.com)

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