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...have always been deeply grieved by the situation in Africa, but I resent the bleeding-heart bias of Sachs' book. No one forces people in poor countries into the irresponsible sexual behavior that leads to AIDS and neglected, even orphaned children. So what if the U.S. gives so little aid? Other nations also contribute. At any rate, money is not the answer. Cindy Clark Decatur, Georgia...
...have always been deeply grieved by the situation in Africa, but I resent the bleeding-heart bias of Sachs' book. No one forces people in poor countries into the irresponsible sexual behavior that leads to AIDS and neglected, even orphaned children. So what if the U.S. gives so little aid to the poor? Other nations also contribute funds. At any rate, money is not the answer...
...country has learned that we cannot judge people on the basis of minority status, but for some reason we have not erased our prejudice against disability. One insidious form of this bias is to distinguish cognitively disabled persons from persons whose disabilities are “just” physical. Cognitively disabled people are shown a manifest lack of respect in daily life, as well. This has gotten so perturbing to me that when I fly, I try to wear my Harvard t-shirt so I can “pass” as a person without cognitive disability...
...Faculty wants to take a more accurate look at Summers’ leadership, there must be a properly designed survey to take the Faculty’s temperature (I declined to respond to the GSAS survey because it has the same bias problems as the faculty questions). Here’s one quick way to do that: for every survey sent out, randomly determine which statement is presented: the vote of confidence, or that of no confidence...
...Mahzarin R. Banaji first performed an “implicit attitudes” test—which tests the unconscious associations people make—on the entire audience. She explained that the audience’s comparative difficulty in associating scientific words with female names reflected an unconscious bias that associated males with science...