Word: biased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until recently, American strategic machinery was ill-prepared to act in Kahn's terms. First, bureaucrats rejected as "unrealistic" theories which implied that the government needed extensive re-education. Second, there was a strong American bias toward giving authority to "the man in the field," undercutting attempts to create a highly-centralized strategy. Finally, America had traditionally regarded the aggressive use of force as criminal or insane, to be countered with a "crusade" to destroy the out-law and imprison the sick...
...Reporter's stories often lack concision, or show a progressive bias; its treatment of secular events-the Viet Nam war, for example-sometimes displays more naivete than knowledge. Nonetheless, many Catholic editors agree that the Reporter has inspired other church journals to greater boldness and initiative, and its own readers are responsive. In its first year, circulation rose from 11,200 to more than 50,800, and is still climbing...
...elaborate screening process, agreed on by Government and party attorneys beforehand and designed to ferret out both pro-and anti-Communist bias, Judge William B. Jones asked the eight women and four men picked to hear the case in U.S. District Court to swear that they 1) did not regard the Communist Party as "subversive" or a threat to themselves or their families; 2) felt no "hostility" toward the party; 3) had "not read, seen or heard anything derogatory about the party," and 4) would not doubt the truthfulness of any officer of the party or the party itself...
...others: Castro, Jan. 26, 1959; Che Guevara, Aug. 8, 1960; Exile Leader Jose Miro Cardona, April 28, 1961; and Communist Boss Bias Roca, April...
Similarly, the experts have tried to take the "cultural bias" out of much testing. The more a test depends on verbal ability, for example, the more it favors the kid whose parents speak well or who read to him. The Otis all-picture test includes sketches of beehives and birds' nests, which may be more familiar to a country child than to a kid from a metropolitan housing project. Still, the question of cultural bias can lead to equally difficult problems. It may be, as Theodore Stolarz, director of the Chicago Teachers College Graduate School, contends, that IQ tests...