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How bad smells, hand sanitizer, and Israeli judges affect your evaluation of an event. Yes, our bodies guide our judgments!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/10/how-bad-smells-hand-sanitizer-and-israeli-judges-affect-your-evaluation-of-an-event

#meetings #evaluations #bias #psychology

Evaluation of an event—three photographs of a pile of trash bags outside a gate, a wall-mounted hand sanitizer dispenser, and a hand rapping a judges gavel.

#media #journalism #bias #superannuation #australia #economics #taxtherich
@grogsgamut 🙏
“The reason why we don’t have free dental in Medicare is because we subsidise the inheritance of the wealthiest people in Australia”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/jun/26/super-tax-debate-highlights-everything-wrong-with-australias-media-and-economic-system

🔬New paper: "Emotional Witness Effect" [open access]
We look at how emotionality & gender norms affect perceptions of credibility, memory accuracy & susceptibility to misinformation.
Emotions matter. So do gender expectations.
w/ @Cody_N_Porter

#eyewitness #psychology #jurydecisionmaking #bias #emotions

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mirceaz_forensics-eyewitness-emotion-activity-7343616043686260737-tyTO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAfS7u8B8vGGwlgHLwyV75qSSsJ_ymrtjBE

OpenAI shows that fine-tuning on biased data can induce misaligned 'personas' in language models, but such behavioral shifts can often be detected and reversed.

#Bias #OpenAI

Join us tomorrow for our first Bitesize class of 2025 - the Ethics of AI: key questions for our changing world. With Dr Hazem Zohny.
Register here: https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-ethics-summer-2025
#AI #ethics #bias #accountability #culture

Back in 2010 Dr. Charlie Glickman noticed that people who talk about "porn use" are red flagging their anti-porn bias:

"Talking about porn in a way that makes it sound like drug use...reinforces the idea that porn is inherently dangerous. And by linking sex and drugs, two almost-universal experiences that are especially prone to moral panics, we continue to reinforce the erotophobia that has kept us in the dark for so long."

https://www.erosblog.com/2010/03/27/on-using-porn/

#Porn #Bias #RedFlag #MoralPanic #PornUse

Can We #trust #ai to #make #ethical #decisions ? The Hidden #bias Behind the #code

https://youtube.com/shorts/n0JuQaSrMLo

From Norbert Wiener's early warnings to today's AI shaping our news and healthcare, ethical choices in machines remain a challenge.

Can We #trust #ai to #make #ethical #decisions ? The Hidden #bias Behind the #code

https://youtube.com/shorts/n0JuQaSrMLo

From Norbert Wiener's early warnings to today's AI shaping our news and healthcare, ethical choices in machines remain a challenge.

Falls ihr es nicht packt zu #48h-Neukölln - die Installation "Bias&Bias" goes digital. Sie ist vom 4.-6.Juli online bei der Chaos Feminist Convention
Danke allen @haecksen , die das großartige Event ermöglichen.

Check it out: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025
Programm: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025/schedule

#cfc25 #promptart #bias #stablediffusion #mixedmedia #chaosfeministconvention25

Salisbury vigil and exhibition reminder

Another vigil, number 81 and a reminder that the exhibition starts on Monday 23rd

June 2025

Still it goes on and today was number 81 in our series of vigils with around 35 in attendance. What was encouraging was an increasing number of people who are noticing it. It is hard to tell of course but over 100 seem to stop, pause or look at the banner and to at least be aware that we were there to urge peace in this troubled part of the world. The local MP, Mr John Glen has never appeared at one of the vigils nor referred to them in his column in the local paper.

The war with Iran is taking up most of the news with less attention being paid to Gaza. The death toll is now at 55,700 and the reports of people being killed seeking food at the limited number of food stations are distressing. Claim and counter claim are made but from the footage, it seems as though the crowds are of ordinary if desperate people. To be shot seems unjustifiable. As Israel does not allow journalists in to independently assess the situation it is difficult to come to a conclusion but it does look like gratuitous killings of unarmed individuals.

The BBC featured in the news this week for finally deciding not to show the documentary film Gaza: Doctors Under Attack allegedly for not meeting its high journalistic standards. This may come as a surprise to many listeners and viewers of the BBC output which has singularly failed to challenge the language and false narratives during this war. The journalist Peter Oborne has reported on the bias of the broadcaster and this clip from Middle East Eye is an example. They cannot be blamed for not being allowed into Gaza – along with other news outlets – but in comparison with Channel 4 for example, their coverage has been woeful. Essentially it looks as though they are frightened of the anti-Semitism gibe and of following propaganda put out by Hamas.

Israeli representatives are not challenged properly over highly dubious statements. The endless claims that destruction of property, hospitals and other buildings are because there are Hamas control centres underneath without ever providing evidence is shameful. Looking at the massive destruction does no one in the BBC newsroom ask themselves ‘hang on, there seem to be an awful lot of control centres in Gaza’. As the IDF control well over half the territory now, why has none of the interviewers ask ‘can you give us some evidence or footage of these control centres please?’

Over 100 BBC have complained about the coverage and some have left the corporation.

The exhibition of photos from the vigils takes place starting tomorrow, 23 June in the Methodist Church in Salisbury from 09:30 in the morning.

#bias #Israel #Salisbury #vigilBBC

BBC HUMILIATED Over Israel Bias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052e22XabME

Public Showdown And DEVASTATING New Report

#BBC #Showdown #Genocide #Complicit #Statistics #Bias #Agenda #Clear #Racism #Politics #Israel #Palestine #Outcomes #Headlines #Intent #Reality

Algorithmic Hiring and Diversity: Reducing Human-Algorithm Similarity for Better Outcomes https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.14388
"… achieving gender parity at the shortlist stage does not inherently guarantee #gender parity in final hires, even if hiring managers are gender-unbiased.
… the effectiveness of the equal selection constraint is highly job-specific, driven by the correlation between screener and hiring manager evaluations. Notably, technical roles requiring measurable “hard skills” (e.g., software engineering) tend to exhibit higher correlations, diminishing the effectiveness of equal selection precisely in fields where women are most underrepresented.
… equal predictive accuracy of screening algorithms across genders is insufficient in multistage hiring processes. It is equally important for screening algorithms to maintain gender neutrality concerning their alignment with #hiring managers’ criteria—specifically, algorithms should exhibit no gender differences in their correlation with managerial assessments.
… higher correlations between screeners’ and hiring managers’ assessments not only reduce the effectiveness of equal selection constraints but also negatively affect the expected quality of hires. This suggests a critical design insight: screening algorithms should be constructed to complement, rather than replicate, managerial evaluations."
#LaborMarkets #jobtech #bias

Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?
https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/

#sociology #psychology #bias #extremism

#Business #Findings
AI assistant biases · Google AI Overviews vs. ChatGPT vs. Perplexity https://ilo.im/164rwl

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#Bias #SEO #SearchEngine #AnswerEngine #Google #ChatGPT #Perplexity #Visibility #Website #Comparisons

This is how LLM distorts
https://kocka.news/en/article/software/307/this-is-how-llm-distorts

#mit #bias

There is an untenable #bias against #AI generated content. No one questions that a professor's assistants #teach or that an artist's workshop creates *his* #art. So why should #writing be any different? In a #knowledge economy, the #idea matters, execution is merely a means to an end.