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ER patients may care less about a doctor’s race and gender than previously thought

February 21, 2020 sarah Jonas bias, Emergency Medicine, Gender, Patient Satisfaction, Race

Black or white, man or woman, providers got similar satisfaction and confidence scores from simulated patients in new research with implications for quality reporting

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We Know AI is Biased; This Design Approach May Help Fix It

February 6, 2020 sarah Jonas AI, Algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, bias, design thinking, Equity, Hiring, Machine Learning, Racism

Bias in artificial intelligence is well established. Researchers are now proposing that developers incorporate the concept of “feminist design thinking” into their process as a way of improving equity – particularly in the development of software used in hiring.

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You create your own false information, study finds

December 9, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments bias, Fake news, False belief, Misinformation

Along with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there’s another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics – it’s you. A new study found that people given accurate statistics on a controversial issue tended to misremember those numbers to fit commonly held beliefs.

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Astronomy fellowship demonstrates effective measures to dismantle bias, increase diversity in STEM

December 6, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Academia And Leadership, bias, Biases, Diversity, diversity in academia, diversity in engineering, Equity, Fellowship, Grant, Inclusion, Postdoc, Postdoctoral Fellowship, stem

Joyce Yen of the University of Washington worked with the Heising-Simons Foundation to dismantle bias and promote diversity in a prominent grant that the Foundation awards to postdoctoral researchers. Here, Yen shares the ways bias can work against greater diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM.