Showing posts with label bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bias. Show all posts
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Implicit Bias

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  If you think you aren't biased, you're mistaken. Everyone who has personal preferences or a sense of right vs wrong is biased.  Bi...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Election Year Bias

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  If you are looking for examples of bias , it's hard to beat an election year. The 2020 national election in the United States stands o...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Rosenstein on the "rule of law" and education

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Rod Rosenstein image source: Wikipedia Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, has been in the news a lot lately. Today he defends hims...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Monkey This Up

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The interest (reaction) generated by this phrase is worth noting: “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embr...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Summer Full Circle Resource Kit

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Bias Detection is the newest Kit in the Full Circle series . One of the most popular MicroModules on the Information Fluency site is Bia...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Fallacies

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Fallacies (mistaken beliefs based on an unsound argument ) appear in many forms, as the author of pearls and elephants recently posted: ...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Investigate before you pass it along

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Thanks to my beautiful spouse, here's an excellent example of the benefits of a little fact-checking. Unfortunately, the person who ...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Bias, Power and Authority

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By itself, bias is unremarkable. It's a part of being human. Bias doesn't always amount to much, especially if no one pays attention...
Friday, April 30, 2010

The Value and Challenge of Unsolicited References

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I've been busy developing a new Information Fluency assessment and training program for Northwestern University's Center for Talent ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"My Predicament (I need your help)"

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First thing Saturday morning I was confronted with an appeal sent from my daughter-in-law's gmail account. Here is the full text of the...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Bias Literacy: Pick the Low-Lying Fruit

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We all grow up in a world of bias. It's so much a part of our everyday experience that it's easy to overlook. The troublesome thing...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Detecting Bias

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Objectivity is a characteristic of information that adds to its credibility. An objective article or posting either avoids taking sides or r...