Editorial Bias
Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations.
Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations.
Do not worry that machines will rise up, take power, and create a completely new world, Broussard argues. Worry that they will silently reproduce and reinforce the world that already exists.
Beware your biases – reviewers award higher marks when a paper’s author is famous.
Your brain has stored associations that help it to quickly answer questions. Impact on biases?
Determining sample size: how to make sure you get the correct sample size.
In 2018, NASA changed the way it evaluates requests for observing time on Hubble Telescope to reduce biases, and it’s working.
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.
Take the Harvard implicit bias test here. Everyone has implicit biases – thoughts and feelings outside your conscious awareness and control which influence your decisions. Once you’re aware of them, you can start taking steps to address them.
Do you perform statistical analyses? Think you’re pretty good at it? Maybe have a read of this before you judge your statistical prowess.
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