Word: biases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets who are complaining have a clear political bias. Virtually all of their targets are thought to be enemies of Mikhail Gorbachev's program of restructuring society, while the accusers are mostly progressives. If Gorbachev wants to remove accused officials from their posts, the growing scandal could make it easy...
...opponents of randomization on the residential committee say bias in favor of non-ordered choice has blocked the committee from fairly considering alternative proposals...
Rent control in Cambridge isn't perfect. But its problems--especially the bias towards wealthier tenants--would only be exacerbated by the passage of the referendum. In the guise of increasing tenant "choice" and increasing the supply of affordable housing, Proposition 1-2-3 seeks to make a financial killing for Cambridge landlords at the expense of some of the city's poorest residents...
Trying to address the security problem with a 24-hour shuttle system also betrays a disturbing bias toward undergraduates who live in the house system. Students who live in Currier House are home when the shuttle drops them off. But graduate students and students who live off campus may face a 10 to 15-minute walk, during which time they are again vulnerable...
Political bias is only one element of the unchecked-error syndrome. Another could be labeled the pseudoauthoritative dodge. Washingtonian, a prosperous, glossy monthly, does an annual salary survey. This fall's version, listing hundreds of names linked to specific monetary figures, appears to be based on serious research. Eight TIME staffers were cited. Mystified, several of us agreed that the figures were wrong (by 30% in one case) and that none of us had been consulted by Washingtonian. The writer, Robert Pack, explained, "You don't call hundreds of people and ask them what they make because they...