Itamar MedeirosAug 27, 2023
In many ways, our #DesignEducation was preparing us to make the world more homogenous and exclusive, rather than more #diverse, #inclusive, and richly expressive. #Biases in #design: hiding in plain sight in a world full of visuals https://flip.it/ydnxey #GraphicDesign #DEI #DecisionBias #DesignDecisions
Itamar MedeirosFeb 28, 2023

The #pandemic has forced organizations to recognize that they need to address #ProximityBias to adapt their #WorkCulture to the #hybrid and #remote #FutureOfWork through creating a culture of “excellence from anywhere.” https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/glebtsipursky/2023/02/26/addressing-proximity-bias-for-a-successful-hybrid-and-remote-work-culture/amp/

#RemoteWork #HybridWork #HRPolicies #HRStrategy #TalentRetention #Bias #Biases #DecisionBias #TalentAttraction via @Forbes

Addressing Proximity Bias For A Successful Hybrid And Remote Work Culture

The pandemic has forced organizations to recognize that they need to address proximity bias to adapt their work culture to the hybrid and remote future of work through creating a culture of “excellence from anywhere.”

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Gábor BékésFeb 23, 2023
New @cepr_org paper out. https://cepr.org/publications/dp17924
#socialpressure #decisionbias #football
DP17924 Favoritism under Multiple Sources of Social Pressure

When social pressure leads to favoritism, policies might aim to reduce the bias by affecting its source. This paper shows that multiple sources may be present and telling them apart is important. To illustrate this point, we revisit the much-quoted paper by Garicano, Palacios-Huerta, and Prendergast (2005), who found that football referees help the home team by allowing the game to last longer when it is losing. This bias was attributed to conformity: social pressure stemming from home supporters in the stadium. Instead, we argue that referees may be affected by multiple sources of social pressure: the supporting crowd in the stadium as well as the host team organization. To test this hypothesis, we compile and combine new and comprehensive datasets on the top 5 European leagues over 10 seasons that cover all match events, referee decisions, team backgrounds, and referee career paths. Relying on exogenous variation in crowd size due to stadium closures during the Covid-19 pandemic, we confirm the presence of referee bias, but find that it remains unchanged despite the lack of crowds. Instead, we show that the hosting (home) team organization may have an influence on referees since the bias is twice as large when it favors an influential (top-ranked) team and is even higher when an influential team is losing at home to a minnow. However, we show that the favoritism bias of the referees is uncorrelated with career benefits. An important adverse aggregate effect relevant for policymakers is that social pressure benefiting influential teams helps maintain the ranking and makes it more difficult for smaller teams to catch up.

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Itamar MedeirosFeb 2, 2023
What is the opportunity or problem that a novel #technology could solve? From a #designer’s perspective, this is a particularly difficult type of #design: finding problems for solutions. #DecisionBias #ProblemFraming #AI #ArtificialIntelligence https://medium.com/@panu/ai-is-a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem-ab4c6e818206
AI is a solution in search of a problem - Panu Korhonen - Medium

A designer identifies user problems or opportunities and creates desirable, viable and feasible solutions. Recently there have been questions like “How could we use AI, machine learning or GPT3 for…

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Itamar MedeirosJan 19, 2023

#DecisionMaking expert Annie Duke says #goals and #resolutions need a way out or an “unless,” and that a pros and cons list is a “bias amplifier;” one that allows you to game which option looks best.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2023/01/11/to-make-good-decisions-dont-use-a-pros-and-cons-list/

#Bias #ThinkingBias #DecisionBias

To Make Good Decisions, Don’t Use A Pros And Cons List

Decision-making expert Annie Duke says goals and resolutions need a way out or an “unless,” and that a pros and cons list is a “bias amplifier;” one that allows you to game which option looks best.

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Itamar MedeirosDec 1, 2022
Seeing both sides is especially helpful for overcoming #confirmationbias and attribution error, and help you make #smarter, more #empathetic choices. #decisionmaking #decisionbias #decisionquality #decisionchoices #choices #alternatives
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