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...Cambridge-based National Center of Fair and Open Testing (Fair Test) said in a study released yesterday that this difference is the result of gender biased questions. Fair Test says that this bias not only impairs fair college admissions processes, but also denies women the chance to win the financial awards offered in the National Merit Scholarship competition, since the qualification for award is based upon test scores...
Brett A. Gordon, Executive Director of the Boston Office of The Princeton Review, agrees that the tests exhibit gender bias...
...Bias in the test] has a lot to do with the way questions work. Here's an analogy that's been used in the past--racquet is to tennis, as: spring board is to diving; horse is to polo;glove is to boxing; club is to golf; gun is to hunting. First, racial discrimination is a problem. I am a middle-class white male, and I know what polo is, but someone in the inner-city might not know. And like it or not, males tend to know more about sports," Gordon said...
Attorneys for O.J. Simpson plan to file a motion accusing Judge Lance Ito of showing bias toward the prosecution, CNN reports. The defense is said to be particularly upset by Ito's treatment of DNA expert Barry Scheck. In court today, Ito at times grew visibly impatient with Scheck's deliberate and repetitive style, several times refusing requests for sidebar discussions from Scheck and prosecution attorney Hank Goldberg, and at one point curtly telling Scheck to sit down. When Fung concluded his testimony, Ito began questioning jurors about allegations of racial tensions on the jury, denying a request from Simpson...
...overwhelmed in one, but it is easy to imagine Joan Crawford or Bette Davis stalking an errant lover using the costume as a weapon. Ghost, designed by Tanya Sarne -- who is also English -- was back in the black-and-white era too: waterfall dresses, flowing crepe trousers and handsome bias-cut skirts...