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...Hammonds’ office will work to establish stronger mentorship structures, survey the entire faculty, and attempt to collect data on more subtle indicators of discrimination such as amounts of lab space given to male versus female faculty members. The survey will be similar to the one examining internal bias conducted by MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins in 1999.“I think this is a huge step,” Lamont says. “The fact that a parallel study will be conducted and that there is a structure to do it is humongous...
...both in terms of faculty and the student body, which in 1981 possessed a mere 19.8 percent of women amongst its approximately 500 students.Such pressure resulted in gaining student seats on all three of the KSG’s admittance committees, in an effort to counter any perceived institutional bias that might have affected the judgements of the faculty and administration.Today, the KSG is very aware of the weight of its history. “We have worked hard on the[se] issues,” Dean of the KSG David T. Ellwood ’75 says, mentioning...
...same standard of accuracy. Traditional media has to draw a very distinct line between fact and opinion—interpretations are explicitly designated, conflicts of interest are expressly named. In contrast, live-blogging reports and online analyses carry the semblance of factual objectivity without any sort check to personal bias, and when they’re the public’s primary information source, this semblance can be mistaken for authenticity...
...because stepfamilies are just as populous in red states as blue, and no politician can use it to their advantage. Nor are stepfamilies subjected to the same degree of prejudice. Stepparents might be vilified, but they are vilified one at a time - not as a class. However, the systematic bias against them is very real...
...dark spot on her tibia may not be a deadly bone cancer but something more benign, like a Brodie's abscess. He may still remove the abscess but not have to do a whole invasive tumor workup. Doctors talk privately about the cost--economic and physical--of the bias toward overtesting. They are less beguiled by flashy technology, more aware of the risks of even simple procedures and thus more willing to trust their doctor's instincts. If everything in his experience tells your doctor that the lump on the back of your hand is a ganglion...