Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tobin responded by saying that because he was from Baltimore, Kiper had some kind of bias against the NFL Colts. (Now why would he suppose a thing like that...
...independence. This is a falsehood. Our political views are not created in a vacuum. Our personal beliefs are influenced by the values of our families and communities, our educations and our personal experiences. To pretend, as the thinking liberals do, that one's view have evolved entirely free of bias is to commit an act of dishonesty. To idealistically proclaim that we can, through the cult of rationality, break free of these biases is to exhibit the most extreme naivete...
...case challenging an alleged a pattern of gender bias, a former administrator at Yale Medical School is suing the university for employment discrimination based on sex and age, retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress...
...find myself in exactly the same situation, as if I am watching one of those optical illusions that consists of a vase, depending on the Organizational whimsy of one's brain. Stokes continues: "But I am sure of this: One of these books --McNamara's -- is pervaded by a bias that fatally cripples its argument...
This is a rather strange assertion to make, especially after he has admitted that both of these books paint rather murky pictures of the story. Why does he resort to accusing one of the authors of bias, even as he is unconvinced by the other author's argument? After all, the Chafetz book is not without its own likely bias; in his preface, Morris Chafetz notes that he was (like Bean-Bayog) a member of the Harvard Medical School department of psychiatry and (like Bean-Bayog) a specialist on alcohol abuse and alcoholism...