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  • Finally, Economists Acknowledge That They’re Biased

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    Forbes: Finally, Economists Acknowledge That They're Biased … It’s striking that so many economists have praised his [Tyler Cowen] op-ed: usually, economists (with much reason) point to how their conclusions are dispassionate, fact-based and (quasi) scientific as evidence for their validity. You would think that Cowen’s conclusion that most economists are not just disembodied scientists…

  • Social Scientist Sees Bias Within

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    New York Times: Social Scientist Sees Bias Within SAN ANTONIO — Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting. Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s conference, where psychologists discuss their research on racial prejudice, homophobia, sexism,…