Women are on average 30 percent less likely to be called for a job interview than men with the same characteristics. In addition, gender bias is higher for candidates with lower qualifications than those who have knowledge ...
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2019
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When people think about artificial intelligence, or AI, they can be quick to jump to the all-too-common sci-fi depiction of a heartlessly rational computer willing to kill people to fulfill its programming.
Machine learning & AI
Mar 26, 2019
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University students, like many in society, demonstrate bias against women and particularly women from non-English speaking backgrounds.
Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2019
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Students are more likely to rate male university teachers higher than their female counterparts in some areas of STEM and Business, according to Australia's largest review of student experience surveys.
Education
Feb 13, 2019
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A study by Deb Raji, a fourth-year student in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is underscoring the racial and gender biases ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 12, 2019
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Women's representation in science and medicine has slowly increased over the past few decades. However, this rise in numbers of women, or gender diversity, has not been matched by a rise in gender inclusion. Despite increasing ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2019
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Citizen science is a boon for researchers, providing reams of data about everything from animal species to distant galaxies.
Ecology
Jan 28, 2019
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Changing language in job advertisements and de-identifying CVs during recruitment can significantly boost a person's prospects of landing a job by overcoming unconscious bias, new University of Melbourne research shows.
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2018
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Google's CEO faces a grilling from U.S. lawmakers on how the web search giant handled an alarming data breach and whether it may bend to Chinese government censorship demands.
Business
Dec 11, 2018
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Google said Thursday it was tweaking its translation application with the goal of reducing gender bias.
Internet
Dec 7, 2018
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