Show threadDaniele de RigoNov 24

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The study [9] warns: "reasoning bots introduce nonrandom, #SystematicBias [...] Unlike random noise, which often attenuates effects, synthetic demand effects can produce results that appear plausible or even compelling"

#EvidenceSubversion risk:

"insidious because hypothesis-confirming data can be more difficult for even conscientious researchers to detect"
"risk is that such data [...] could inadvertently lead to a proliferation of false positives, undermining the scientific process"

AlsoPaisleyCat 🇨🇦Dec 21, 2024

Indicators of structural sexism and racism are associated with greater memory decline in older women in the United States.

A new study from Columbia University researchers: ‘Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women’

From the Columbia University posting:

“The difference between being born in the most versus the least sexist state was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.

The study is part of a growing body of research that has investigated links between structural sexism and health. Structural sexism, like structural racism, does not refer to personal incidences but to inequality in resources and power that stem from social policies and societal norms. Hate crimes or slurs are individual acts of racism or sexism, whereas unfair lending practices and underrepresentation in government are structural.”

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/sexism-risk-factor-memory-decline-among-women

#Memory #PublicHealth #Misogyny #WomensHealth #StructuralSexism #Sexism #Racism #StructuralRacism #SystematicBias #UnitedStates #Intersectionality #Dementia #CognitiveDecline #HealthGradient #StructuralDeterminants #SocialDeterminants #HealthEquity

Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women

Columbia researchers have found that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experience faster memory decline in later life compared to women born in the least sexist states.

Columbia University Irving Medical Center