I am reading a peer-reviewed article that describes a study that featured 5 drivers; 4 male, 1 female. It includes the following analysis:
"It shows that male is more impulsive and daring in operating their vehicles by 22% than a female who is more hesitant and less daring, which is consistent with the physiological nature of women."
Do I reject all further findings or?
A new study finds that people tend to overestimate the size of small demographic groups because of cognitive errors in estimation of small proportions, not necessarily because of misinformation, ignorance, or animus. The authors emphasize that their findings do not negate the existence of those effects.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2413064122 (not open access)
Preprint at https://www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2024_misperceptions.pdf
(27 Mar) Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets
Researchers ascribe it to “animus or prejudice against minority drivers.”…
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/erx1l
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/swf2q
#bias #minorities #science #speeding-tickets #structural-racism #tickets #traffic-violations
Automating Injustice: “Predictive” policing in #Germany - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/automating-injustice-predictive-policing-germany/ #bias
Surprise surprise:
“AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say”
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-miss-disease-black-female-patients
Liberated from Paywall: https://archive.is/jEcbH
Nope! Not surprised at all!
Lest we forget:
As historian AJP Taylor wryly remarked, the BBC’s first Director General [Baron John] Reith had
"managed to preserve the technical independence of the BBC by suppressing news which the government did not want published. This set a pattern for the future: the vaunted independence of the BBC was secure so long as it was NOT exercised."
Not so @BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4?
Veteran UK anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony #Greenstein, eviscerates the BBCs coverage of the Gaza genocide in his most recent blogpost!
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/03/in-1930s-bbc-appeased-and-even_20.html?m=1
“In the 1930s the BBC Appeased and Even Attempted to Justify the Nazi Regime’s Anti-Semitism – Today It Loves Israel and Zionism - Has Anything Changed?”
Researchers at Kaiser Permanente developed algorithm to reduce #bias in #multiplesclerosis treatment decisions, ensuring more equitable access to highly effective therapies. A study tracking over 6,000 #MS patients in Southern California found that after #algorithm was implemented, the use of highly effective therapies increased by 90 percent among Hispanic patients, 87 percent among Black patients, and 80 percent among white patients. #healthcare #bias #discrimination https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/news-posts/2025/03/07/algorithm-help-reduce-racial-ethnic-inequality-ms-treatment/
“The Guardian’s latest propaganda for Israel is absolutely shocking”
by The Canary @thecanaryuk @EFJEurope
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/03/17/guardian-israel/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
Agree 100%
The idea that the density of good people is different among different categories, whether races or genders or degrees of ableness or whatever, seems completely suspect to me. So there's that.
But also, abstract goodness is not always the entirety of what is needed of employees. Regardless of what score anyone might get open whatever test you could throw at them, there is intrinsic value and having people who come from different backgrounds. Diverse groups have a better mix of origin stories, and are not just diverse in nature but in nurture.
Diverse groups have walked more paths, seen more things, experienced more situations. There is a greater breadth of empathy. There are more varied sources of inspiration. Inspiration comes in odd ways from different situations.
When solving mysteries, differences in people's personal histories will lead them to see the same situation differently, sometimes shaking them out of overly narrow, limiting, or even toxic assumptions.
When creating policy, having folks present who can more directly represent those impacted can help to call out and perhaps avoid biases, prejudices, indignities or injustices that might be invisible to or unappreciated by a narrower group that is so used to things going a certain way that they don't realize or find it easy to relate to that full space of potential negatives others might endure.
When creating stories, diversity brings more richness of life experience to draw on.
When innovating, diversity brings more points of view a greater breadth of traditions and techniques to draw on, better thinking outside the box because the boxes people have inhabited are so many and varied.
When entertaining, more sources of music, jokes, artistic tools and media. Even with 5000 TV channels and as many grocery store products, we crave variety, which better comes of diversity than a sea of cultural sameness.
One can allege there is a kind of dogged efficiency in eliminating diversity, but there is no reason to suppose it will do anything other than destroy all that has made the US an interesting place to visit, study, and buy from.
The monocultural sludge we are becoming is the farthest thing from smart, safe, healthy, entertaining, or free. Even a highly efficient from of that toxic sludge will still be sludge and will not thrive economically or socially. The stock market is just an early warning sign but there will soon be other even more visible indicators. Our society is melting down before our eyes and the present experiment in selfish, bigoted authoritarianism is the cause, not the cure.
This cesspool of feigned expertise and mindless leadership being thrust upon us claims to be motivated by a desire to avoid bankruptcy, but in fact is the shortest path not only to economic but also moral, cultural and intellectual bankruptcy that anyone could have devised. If there is an efficiency to be claimed it is in the swift path ruin it has charted. Future generations of locusts will study the raw, ruthless, and ultimately pointless efficiency it has required to dismantle and plunder a thriving society in such short order.
#diversity #DEI #DOGE #efficiency #politics #bigotry #monoculture #inspiration #justice #bias #prejudice #injustice
H/T @salixsericea
“Israel is continuing the genocide - but the UK media will not tell you”
by Hamza Yusuf in Middle East Eye
@palestine
@israel
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
“A ceasefire does not mean that Israel has dropped its goal to annihilate Gaza. [..]. But the British public will not be privy to such details - not if they rely on the mainstream media to report them accurately”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-starving-gaza-uk-media-will-not-tell-you
I followed a few different pro-Ukraine Twitter Lists.
They are gone.
Elon Musk, owner of X/Twitter could have ordered them removed or the creators of those Lists could have taken them down in protest against Musk's pro-Russia statements at a time when Russia commits war crimes. #socialmedia #Ukraine #politics #censorship #bias
Screw #azcentral with this nonsense headline. So sick of their complicity.
Musk called Sen Kelly a “traitor”. That is the story. Exactly what insult did Kelly trade?????
"An irrational belief in irrational ideas usually leads to irrational results" - Futurist Jim Carroll
So let's try and figure out what's going on.
I took today's quote, fed it to ChatGPT, and got the picture above which I used for today;'s 'inspiration' image.
Look, in the last little while, I've looked into the Science of Stupidity, the Science of Mistakes, and The Science of Regret. So why not the Science of Irrational Decisions, which I learned is often referred to as "cognitive distortions." There's a lot to be found online to explain where we are. Charts and stuff that explain the many different types of irrational decisions aka cognitive distortions.
There's even a course or two to take on it.
It's a fascinating topic, and as expected, there's a lot of research to be found. It's a wonderful rabbit hole to plunge into because you will find such papers as
Overcoming Cognitive Distortions; How to Recognize and Challenge the Thinking Traps that Make You Miserable.
That tracks. People seem to be pretty miserable right now because of the cognitive distortions they've gone through that got us to where we are today.
And, as might expected, there is to be a leadership / personal growth book about it, with the title Predictably IrrationalL: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions, released back in 2008. It probably could use an update!
So let's dig in, shall we? Let's talk about why folks make poor choices about big economic and political issues that end up hurting everyone.
Here's what the science tells us. When people vote against their economic interests or support harmful policies, it's rarely because they're stupid. Their brains just don't always work in their best interest when dealing with complex global systems. Why is that? Our brains take shortcuts. We use mental rules of thumb that help us make quick decisions. This works fine for everyday choices but fails miserably when considering trade policy, inflation control, voting, or healthcare systems.
What happens to people in this circumstance? They get emotional about political and economic issues. Fear, anger, and tribalism cloud their judgment. When someone supports tariffs that will ultimately hurt local businesses because they sound "tough on foreign competition" - that's emotional reasoning drowning out economic reality. It's cognitive dissonance, plain and simple.
The kicker is that the condition leads to great uncertainty, which fuels itself creating more uncertainty in a vicious spiral.
It's complex, folks, and there is no easy way out.
Buckle up.
Read the rest of the post.
**#Irrationality** **#Cognition** **#Distortion** **#Economics** **#Politics** **#Decisions** **#Tribalism** **#Uncertainty** **#Bias** **#Denialism**
Je profite du fil de @kfort et des échanges qui en ont découlé pour présenter un article accepté en Findings à NAACL (co-écrit avec @kfort, Aurélie Névéol, Nicolas Hiebel et Olivier Ferret), déjà dispo sur hal (https://inria.hal.science/hal-04938811) :
De plus en plus de facs de médecine songent à faire plancher les étudiant·es sur des cas cliniques générés par des modèles de langue (LLMs). Pourtant, on sait que ces LLMs sont biaisés, et que les biais des modèles peuvent créer/amplifier les biais d'humains (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42384-8).
Notre étude prouve, grâce à un corpus de 21 000 cas concernant 10 pathologies et générés par 7 LLMs affinés (fine-tunés), que :
- Les modèles génèrent par défaut des patients (et non de patientes)
- La sur-génération d'hommes n'est pas liée aux prévalences médicales réelles (les proportions réelles de femmes sont sous-estimées par les modèles)
- Les biais sont parfois si forts que le genre donné dans l'invite (prompt) est contredit (voir image ci-dessous)
- Les femmes et les personnes trans sont plus à risque d'être impactées par ces biais, qui peuvent se traduire de manière très concrète : erreurs de diagnostics, errance médicale, traitements inadaptés, tabou, mégenrage, essentialisme biologique
“Former BBC journalist goes rogue, calling out the broadcaster’s pro-Israel #bias”
by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk @BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
Former #BBC journalist Karishma #Patel has called the broadcaster out for refusing to reach ‘reasonable, evidence-based conclusions’ over #Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As a result, she suggested, it has become ‘a vehicle in #informational #warfare’. And that’s why she resigned in 2024”
By 6, kids think boys are better than girls at computer science. These programs aim to change that
At age six, kids are typically building up their reading skills and starting to discover interests, but some also already hold the stereotypical belief that boys are better than girls at computer science and engineering, according to a recent study. Initiatives both inside and outsid...
#education #gender #STEM #bias #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/compsci-girls-stem-1.7473378?cmp=rss
