Word: biases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer is that not even a President can be fully trusted with money because he is inevitably a political creature-and any moves to tighten money are political poison. European central bankers are particularly happy that Martin has so much power. They figure that politicians have a clearly inflationary bias and that the U.S. needs a man with Martin's independence and integrity to take the necessary, if politically unpopular, steps required to help stabilize demand and prices. When rumors went around in 1967 that Martin might not be reappointed as chairman, some European central bankers observed that...
History, Jean-Paul Sartre once observed, is a bad joke played by the present upon the past. The perception has more to do with the inevitable bias of historians than with history itself. It emphasizes, however, the value of the practice that allowed a suitable interval to elapse before the present tried to judge the past. Today Presidents have taken to employing historians as personal aides, partly in the hope that they will be written up lovingly. Sometimes they are-witness Arthur Schlesinger's study of John F. Kennedy. And sometimes the joke is on the Chief Executive. Eric...
Jensen also makes elaborately clear the built-in bias of traditional intelligence tests, and their inadequacies as measures of intellectual ability in the twentieth century. Intelligence tests, he points out, grew out of formal European education at the turn of the century and have remained essentially unchanged since...
...remained "the most democratic institution I know anything about" largely because everyone's work was measured by the standard f grades. Regardless of background, a man could prove his worth by doing well on first-year exams. Grades left no room for racial, religious, or class bias. All students could compete on an equal footing and be judged impartially. The system, said Frankfurter, "creates an atmosphere and habits of objectivity and disinterestedness, respect for professional excellence, and a zest for being very good at this business which...
...think these problems can be resolved by the faculty working alone." Berkson emphasized. The large majority of Harvard Law professors are graduates of the school. Berkson charged that they thus "have a tremendous institutional bias in favor of the status quo, having succeeded very well in it." "It might be tough to convince them of the present system's problems," he added...