Word: bias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Benacerraf says. He is on the fourth floor of Building D at the stolid gray Med School quadrangle, and when he alludes to other investigations of cancer, it is usually by reference to the floor or building on the quadrange where the research is being conducted. His only apparent bias seems to be against the clinicians, whose "gross" methods of extinguishing cancer do not deal with the cause of the problems, but assume the pathologic presence of tumors in actual patients...
...whether or not genes influence specific traits, Campbell believes that there is a biological bias in favor of self-seeking, uninhibited behavior. To counter this bias, human societies have evolved strong ethical and religious rules favoring the group over the individual...
Thus "Love thy neighbor" and "Honor thy parents" served as brakes on too much antisocial behavior. These commands were absolute and uncompromising in order to balance out the biological bias in the opposite direction. "In Moses' day, as in ours," said Campbell, "honoring one's parents would have been dysfunctional carried to the 100% extreme, but such excesses were so little of a social problem that in the limited list of reiterated commandments, 'Thou shall show independence from thy parents' was usually omitted...
...occurred to me before I got here that there was anything sexist about all this Radcliffe bitch talk; I just assumed that they must all be bitches. But I have since come to see the bitch myth as one of the more overt manifestations of Harvard's anti-female bias. It seems to me that many Harvard men feel threatened by Radcliffe women, and having this "bitch" category to slip them into gives the men a form of self-defense--or, more often, provides them with an excuse for not getting involved with women...
Gregory R. Dube '76, the project supervisor, said yesterday that "ignorant, misinformed and negligent comments by members of the upper echelon" which have solidified a built-in bias against "inflexible" systems is the major reason for rejecting the Identimation system...