Reminder: Overcoming Age Bias : In my last column, I turned the tables and asked for readers' advice on handling age bias in the job market and workplace: As a practical matter, what can workers and managers do about it?
'We appear to have a bias toward being nice to attractive people even when the rewards to ourselves, such as increasing the chance of a date, wouldn't apply,' Little said.
economic data and have therefore curtailed the strong dollar bias, the majority of economists still believe that the Fed will hike in September," said Boris Schlossberg, managing director of FX strategy at BK Asset Management.
" "Sovereign funding flexibility rests mainly on the massive stock of savings of the Japanese private sector and the strong 'home bias' with which these savings are invested.
First, talented employees with unconventional backgrounds may have to overcome the unconscious bias of superiors to reach senior roles.
The pejorative use of the word 'witch' as a substitute for 'bitch' is offensive to pagans, and illustrates your religious bias.
Humans have a 'hemispheric bias' when it comes to communication, with different aspects of language favouring the left or right side of the brain.
Another characteristic is "confirmation bias" — the tendency to interpret new information as support for pre-existing beliefs.
Thanks to an innate human bias that's become known as the "what is beautiful is good" effect, beautiful employees are seen as more intelligent, more competent, more everything-that's-good.
Sometimes,people define it as self-discipline which has a bias passive meaning.
To remove gender bias, only women rated the faces on a nine-point scale for trustworthiness or attractiveness.
The first is it creates a global recessionary bias during and after financial crises because it places the burden of adjusting to payments imbalances on nations which run a deficit.
McArdle cops to possible selection bias (if you don't trust your spouse, you're not going to be pooling money), but also notes that couples that don't pool their earnings fight more about money.
But it is still not clear to what extent this might be due to 'selection bias' - cancer patients over-reporting mobile phone use on the side of the head where their tumour arose.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954 There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender.
Bias I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I've come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.
