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...pitches thrown - but that's still one pitch per game, and it could be the one that makes the difference. "One pitch called the other way affects things a lot," says Hamermesh. "Baseball is a very closely played game." What's more, says Hamermesh, a slight umpire bias affects more than just the score; it also has an indirect effect on a team's psyche. Baseball is a game of strategy. If a pitcher knows he's more likely to get questionable pitches called as strikes, he'll start picking off at the corners. But if he knows...
Green said that while the study reveals bias regarding the prescription of treatment, it’s unclear whether the administration of that treatment would be affected by those biases...
Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji, an expert in the field of bias study who has developed tests to measure bias in the past, said it’s no surprise that physicians are susceptible to bias in their work...
Green said the reason for such differences in bias is largely cultural...
...envy of every chimpanzee, and that’s the ability to look inside our minds and see what’s there, and this is a nice case of something like that,” she said. “If doctors who do not wish to have bias in their treatment would like to fix that particular behavior, then I’d say we have access to becoming aware of it and watching our social interactions carefully...