Word: biased
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...circumspect about whom they approve. An irrevocable tenured position is a huge risk to take when a young scholar's work may later become irrelevent, obsolete or discredited. (Occasionally, this happens after the person has already received tenure--one of the primary flaws of the tenure system.) The strong bias against offering tenure is understandable and unavoidable, but destructive nonetheless...
Questions of racial bias have become one of the foremost stumbling blocks for the modern women's movement, a prominent feminist writer told a group of about 30 people last night in the keynote address of this year's Women's Expo...
...order to combat racial bias, people of different races need to work together to overcome harmful stereotypes which perpetuate the problem on both overt and psychological levels, Morales said...
Consequently, people can only overcome racial bias by discussing the problem with those who have experienced it Morales said, encouraging audience members to share their thoughts with one another...
...only bias of the aspirin study was not unusual. As an article in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association points out, medical research often appears to ignore women. In studies of everything from the link between smoking and cataracts to the benefits of eating fish after having heart attacks, the subjects have all been men. That concerns some medical experts and political leaders...