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...also defended network news against accusations of liberal bias. Any bias, he said, results from self-selection in the field, and journalists’ tendency to “question authority.” To counter perceptions of bias, he said news agencies need to be “overtly aggressive in seeking multiple points of view...
...without a disaster," says Michael Lindell, a professor at the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. "So, the most reasonable reaction when something bad happens is to say, This can't possibly be happening to me." Lindell sees the same tendency, which disaster researchers call normalcy bias, when entire populations are asked to evacuate...
...which it wants the Hong Kong government's performance to improve, and it will release the details next month. The Forum's report will call for a single, omniscient harbor authority, and transparency in the planning of projects. At the same time, the group says there should be a bias toward developing the harbor with public spaces, and that the 2004 court ruling banning nearly all reclamation should be respected. "The strength of feeling about the harbor has become conspicuous," says one of the participants at last week's meeting. "The business community should use its resources, its skills...
...Spelke did an amazing job,” said Adam N. Sternthal ’08, who is currently enrolled in Pinker’s class, Science B-62, “The Human Mind.” “[Pinker] never really responded to that ubiquitous bias that her studies pointed...
...naïve as to think that simply bringing people into the same room will instantly cure all of society’s ills; bias is too evolutionarily inbred into our tribal psyches for that to happen so long as visible differences exist between...