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...believe you don’t deserve that job, that fame, or that money, you can prove them wrong by being nothing short of impeccable at what you do. Of course, some will still hold onto their perceptions—they are often a result of deeply held confirmation biases??but taking care of your end is all you can really do. Etching out your existence as a successful person is far more critical than worrying about the attitudes of others...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Don't Knock the Hustle | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...school’s campus—and have tried, with great success, to see their brand of radical theory seep into the curriculum and influence the next generation of lawyers. Most perniciously, Crits have attempted to remake society through laws, to purge society of all its biases??racial, gender, or otherwise. They try to do this through censorship of all dissenting views, Thomas argues, and the results are disastrous...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: What Kiwi Taught Us About HLS | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

Barbara Gross, the Radcliffe science dean, responded by saying that while overt discrimination is not occurring, “our implicit biases?? have lead to the dearth of offers to women...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS To Up Female Tenure | 12/15/2004 | See Source »

Barbara Gross, the Radcliffe science dean, responded by saying that while overt discrimination is not occurring, “our implicit biases?? have lead to the dearth of offers to women...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS To Up Female Tenure | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

According to Weinberg, our accepted theory of physics is the way it is simply because it can be no other way. Science works by starting with a set of observations and developing a model that matches them and predicts new results. There are no “cultural biases?? to these truths—an experiment either worked or it didn’t. Or as Weinberg puts it, “Nature cares little about what scientists prefer.” Only the Standard Model, despite its various weaknesses, comes close to explaining our world...

Author: By Ya’ir Aizenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What Is Science, Anyway? | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

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