If you are going to report #HumanRights abuses, cite your sources. If for some reason the media is silent, which is believable, find some way of showing a confirmation that what you are saying is real. Do not boost what does not offer a guidelines of truth other than what simply fits your bias.
Short-term traditional meeting evaluations are unreliable. They tell you nothing about the long-term effects of a session. We can do better.
#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #bias #unreliable #HowToImprove #eventprofs
"New evidence suggests a hidden force quietly distorting this process: accent bias. Across a plethora of digital platforms, we found that speakers with nonnative English accents consistently receive less engagement. These findings support previous research that suggests the same bias can affect in-person judgments of credibility and competence, including in organizational contexts like hiring and evaluation."
https://hbr.org/2026/03/research-how-the-accent-penalty-determines-who-gets-heard
At American firms, accent bias can quietly shape whose ideas gain traction at work by depressing attention and engagement for speakers with nonnative English accents. Drawing on an analysis of 5,000+ English-language TED Talks, research finds a consistent “accent penalty” in views and likes that persists even after accounting for topic, speaker expertise, visibility, and other indicators of content quality. A follow-up experiment with 1,300+ U.S. adults helps explain why, showing that accented speech increases cognitive effort and reduces perceived warmth and trust, which in turn lowers interest and willingness to share. Because attention functions as a form of organizational currency, these dynamics can distort recognition, influence, and learning in global teams. Leaders can mitigate the effect by redesigning meetings and evaluations and by raising awareness of processing fluency–driven bias.
We were not racists. We did not come from people who owned slaves. Our family were not members of any supremacist organizations. We watched The Cosby Show and we listened to Charley Pride. We were clearly not racists.
#race #bias #prejudice #grooming #racism
> Analysts say Iran’s Islamic government has survived the loss of its top leaders...
What could be the point of squeezing "Islamic" into that sentence other than to suggest that there is something unusual or dangerous about it, the same way my dad (and others indoctrinated into sexism and patriarchy in India and elsewhere) would say "lady doctor"?
It would be one thing if adjectives were dished out to other governments in equal measure. The "genocidal Israeli government issued a statement...", "the Christofascist US government"...
Sigh. I need to lean on my other news sources and walk away from the Guardian.
#statstab #510 A Note on Dropping Experimental Subjects who Fail a Manipulation Check
Thoughts: Another paper to consider when "removing participants who failed our manipulation check"🤷♂️
#manipulationcheck #estimand #experiment #design #bias #guide #assumptions #missingdata
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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃
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