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...with the greatest average life expectancy--81.3 years--were all in Colorado. (Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Park and Summit, for those of you thinking about packing a U-Haul.) Exactly what's so special about Colorado is not entirely clear, since the study authors controlled for any bias caused by race or income. Perhaps the residents' good fortune has to do with the fact that they all live in mountainous areas, where being physically active is easy, as opposed to more lowland, sedentary portions...
Then too there's what Ropeik and others call "optimism bias," the thing that makes us glower when we see someone driving erratically while talking on a cell phone, even if we've done the very same thing, perhaps on the very same day. We tell ourselves we're different, because our call was shorter or our business was urgent or we were able to pay attention to the road even as we talked. What optimism bias comes down to, however, is the convenient belief that risks that apply to other people don't apply...
...racial discrimination. “We raised concerns about the issue of whether it’s necessary for any staff to be laid off in this new environment with the new machinery, about how to determine who should be laid off, and about the concerns of racial bias or hateful behavior in the workplace,” he said. “We’re going to have some of the [Office of Animal Resources] workers themselves involved in figuring out the answers to these hard questions,” he said. One member of the Harvard CREW?...
More than one person is killed each month due to transgender-based bias, according to the Web site for the organization Gender Education and Advocacy...
With that move, Harvard recognized that bias against transgender individuals might not be addressed by policies protecting gay men and lesbian women...