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28 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The police officer, according to the working group, brings a bias to the job of criminal justice, a bias that perhaps protects all but the most serious white criminals from getting arrested. [read post]
26 Feb 2022, 6:53 pm by admin
 In 1989, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit resolved an appeal involving expert witnesses who relied upon epidemiologic studies by concluding that it did not have to resolve questions of bias and confounding because the studies relied upon had presented their results with confidence intervals.[4] Judges and expert witnesses persistently interpreted single confidence intervals from one study as having a 95 percent probability of containing the actual parameter.[5]… [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 3:30 am by Andrea Boyack
Over the past year, this increasing awareness of systemic racial bias has sparked an angry backlash. [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 1:50 am by Kevin Kaufman
Remove tax barriers from personal saving: Just as Americans enjoy the benefits of saving for retirement through a 401(k) or Roth IRA, they should also be able to save for any purpose—e.g., to finance education, housing, a new business venture, or career transition—without getting penalized for it. [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 10:52 am by Tom Smith
Score one more victory for the parental revolt against woke K-12 education. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 11:36 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Having long convinced themselves that higher education (and, more recently, even K-12 education) is a hotbed of leftist indoctrination, they will surely enforce their orthodoxy without compunction. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 1:17 am by Jason Kelley
The New Future of Privacy Forum “Student Privacy Pledge” Has New Problems (and Old Ones) The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) originally launched the Student Privacy Pledge in 2014 to encourage edtech companies, which often collect very sensitive data on K-12 students, to take voluntary steps to protect privacy. [read post]
23 Dec 2021, 8:45 am by Tom Smith
  Some high schools are already teaching lessons and units on CRT, where students write papers demonstrating their facility with applying the theory, while other schools are introducing CRT concepts, such as systemic racism, white privilege, microaggressions, implicit bias and intersectionality. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 8:50 pm by Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer
And rather than every single legal research lead or law librarian or K manager repeating that same problem in every city, it’s a 50 state survey. [read post]
13 Dec 2021, 2:56 pm by Steve Lubet
Quite frankly, BDS activism creates divisions and polarizes the campus community.[9] For example, research shows that pro-BDS student activism leads to a marked increase in antisemitic incidents and bias reporting on campus.[10] The Statement inaccurately asserts that the Israeli academy is “complicit” in the oppression of Palestinians and is “profoundly implicated in supporting and perpetuating Israel’s systematic denial of Palestinian rights. [read post]
3 Dec 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Experts have argued some bias is unavoidable in a political environment in which most Democratic voters are packed in urban areas and most Republicans live in more rural ones. [read post]
30 Nov 2021, 2:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Improve treatment of business capital investments, raising the Section 179 expensing allowance for small businesses and offering permanent full expensing like that available under IRC Section 168(k) to reduce the tax code’s bias against investments in machinery and equipment. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 4:15 am by Paul Cole
" However, Boltzmann’s entropy formula S = k log W where S represents entropy, a concept associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty, and W represents the number of possible states in the relevant system, leaves an unforgettable impression on those who have studied it. [read post]
21 Nov 2021, 7:01 am by Brian Hausle, Matt Montazzoli
” Although the defense of U.S. troops and civilians at the airport added urgency, the confirmation bias, target identification errors and tragic outcome illustrate the hazards inherent with over-the-horizon strikes. [read post]
15 Nov 2021, 6:17 pm by John Jascob
Crenshaw also said the presence of XBRL for financial data in SEC filings had improved transparency and market efficiency by, among other things, reducing informational gaps between insiders and non-insiders and by lessening local bias (with respect to local bias, one academic article cited by Crenshaw in a footnote suggests that an institutional investor's portfolios tend to favor the securities of firms within the institutional investor's geographic locale).Other… [read post]
The first recommendation involved implementing procedures in similar situations to mitigate the risk of confirmation bias. [read post]
30 Oct 2021, 9:43 am by Tom Smith
The solution is improving K-12 education, not introducing discrimination at late stages. [read post]