Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most powerful nation in the world, with high ideals of human rights, lead efforts to preserve peace. America's actions in Kosovo to protect the Albanians, a Muslim people, from genocide and abuse of their human rights show a commitment to a just and peaceful world without any bias of race, religion or nationality. DWIGHT M. GOWDEY Seattle
Kiely says he began to hear a more pronounced bias from both students and Faculty on campus, who grumbled that Adams nourished nonconformists...
Your cover lines showed a typical bias: "The latest research...reveals that women are tougher, stronger and lustier that anyone ever thought." Anyone? Some men, perhaps. Women have always known these facts. KEITHA LEONARD Boulder, Colo...
...strong women are. But then you proceed to "honor" us by putting pictures of nude women throughout the story. And your table-of-contents listing for the story has the title "What Little Girls Are Made Of." I was hoping my daughter's generation would be free of this bias. SANDY KOGUT Montreal...
That's the good news. The bad news is that a subtle, often unconscious, bias toward ourselves, our kin and our friends can narrow altruism and color moral judgments. "Deception and hypocrisy are very human devices for conducting the complex daily business of social life," wrote Edward O. Wilson in Sociobiology (1975), which brought the new paradigm to the world's attention...