Scientist Katie Bouman captures historic image of a black hole. Newsflash: Sex discrimination is systemic on English Wikipedia. To wit: Less than 18% of 1.6 million English Wikipedia bios are about women, up from 15% in 2014. Put another way: of about 1,615,000 bio pages, fewer than 300,000 are about women. Meanwhile, men account for […]
Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Bias and Perception. About Andreas Ekström’s TED Talk We think of search engines as unbiased sources of information. But they’re not—and they can be manipulated. Andreas Ekström asks: who should hold the burden of addressing bias in search engines? About Andreas Ekström Andreas Ekström is staff writer
EVANSTON, IL — The former Northwestern University student who reached a $1.25 million settlement with Evanston to drop allegations against the city and several of its police officers called for increased efforts to reduce implicit social bias. Lawrence Crosby, 28, who is black, was falsely identified as having broken into his own car by a
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TeroVesalainen / Pixabay Who did you vote for in the last presidential election (or if you’re not in the U.S., the top leadership position in your country)? Bring that person to mind. Now — do you still believe that this person was the absolute right choice? Think of all the negative things that have been
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Last Wednesday, a day after Google’s C.E.O., Sundar Pichai, sat before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the company’s search engine, Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, wrote a post on Twitter that ended with the hashtag #StopTheBias. Parscale, the digital director of Trump’s 2016 campaign, is considered a master of online
Say that you decided you wanted to get the help of a digital marketer. Do you envision working with a man or woman? Interestingly, Larry Kim, digital marketer and founder of WordStream, analyzed internal company data from 2014 customer satisfaction surveys and found that, when rating the company’s account representatives, the lowest male rated higher than the highest female.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai provided an unconvincing explanation of how the near-monopolist in internet search supports a free market and democratic principles of press freedom. Both are critical for a healthy publishing market, and Google’s outsized power to control what people see threatens the industry. Yesterday, Pichai appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to answer
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rawpixel / Pixabay As humans, we all have biases. We’d like to think we’re all perfectly logical all the time, but the reality is that we have moments when we aren’t thinking clearly and we make faulty decisions. Cognitive biases cloud our thinking because we stick with what we think we know. One of the
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Chatbots have exploded over the past few years, leading Gartner to predict that 80% of marketers will use chatbots by 2020, and that the technology will power 85% of all customer service interactions by that time. Though they are proliferating, that doesn’t mean that chatbots have reached their peak. They’re far from perfect, in fact,
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Marketing Podcast with Dolly ChughPodcast Transcript My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Dolly Chugh. Chugh is a psychologist and associate professor of management and organizations at the Stern School of Business at NYU. She’s also the author of the forthcoming book The Person You Mean to Be: How
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