Growing up in Michigan, Courtney Bonam moved from the predominantly black community of Oak Park to the predominantly white town of Ann Arbor. Her new middle school, which had the largest racial minority enrollment in the ...
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2018
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A paleontologist returns to her lab from a summer dig and sets up a study comparing tooth length in two dinosaur species. She and her team work meticulously to avoid biasing their results. They remain blind to the species ...
Mathematics
Nov 19, 2018
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African-American job candidates are more likely to receive lower salaries in hiring negotiations when racially biased evaluators believe they have negotiated too much, according to research published by the American Psychological ...
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2018
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Amazon decided to shut down its experimental artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tool after discovering it discriminated against women. The company created the tool to trawl the web and spot potential candidates, rating ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 1, 2018
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Members of a majority group tend to hold negative views of minority-group individuals who claim more than one identity, according to new Yale-led research. The negative bias is driven by fear that dual-identity individuals ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2018
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With 11 people killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue, racially motivated shootings in a Kentucky store, and bombs in the mail, it seems like ethnic, religious, and racial hate are increasingly running unchecked in America.
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2018
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An investigator's belief that a person is guilty may be the reason innocent people get convicted, according to a recent study.
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2018
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Organizations are eager to find innovative workers because of their ability to see opportunities for improvement in areas that might otherwise go overlooked. But research shows that if these innovative employees are women, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 16, 2018
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President Donald Trump is weighing an executive order that would open federal antitrust and criminal probes into Google, Facebook and other social media firms, US media said Saturday, though the White House promptly distanced ...
Internet
Sep 23, 2018
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Australia's parliament has a problem retaining experienced women. As a workplace, it's not alone.
Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2018
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