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• Ex-NBA Ref Tim Donaghy: Mob Threatened Me [VIDEO]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Winning bets on pro basketball games using insider knowledge only he as an NBA referee would know was "euphoria" says now-disgraced ex-ref Tim Donaghy - that is, he says, until the mob got its hooks in him and threatened his family. Donaghy talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon about how he says he based his ...
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• Women and Math

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Half of all recent M.D.s are women and nearly half of all recent Ph.Ds in biology are women. So are the majority of new psychologists  (67%), veterinarians (75%) and dentists (70%).  But why are so few women joining the ranks of mathematicians, engineers, chemists, computer scientists, and physicists? In the top 100 ...
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• Beneath the Academic Verbiage: Race & Gender Biases in Customer Satisfaction Surveys

  
  Samuel Bacharach Blog — Authority: 124
  Guest Post: By Peter A. Bamberger , PhD who is the Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal . Starting today we are beginning a section on this blog entitled “Beneath the Academic Verbiage.” In this section we will be highlighting academic articles, both past and present, that we believe have ...
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• Shared Decision Making: Informed Consent v. Informed Choice

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 553
  This guest post, presenting the view point of Howard Luks ( @hjluks on Twitter). Howard is an orthopedic surgeon. He serves as the Chief of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy and Knee Replacement at Westchester Medical Center, in Westchester County, NY.  Asked about participatory medicine and patient engagement, ...
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• How Lenders Decide Whether Or Not to Accept Home Equity Loan App...

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 149
  Everybody would like to know how lenders decide whether or not to accept home equity loan applications. This article describes how lenders decide whether or not to accept home equity loan applications. There are no predefined biases, nor any random selection of applications. All applications are closely scrutinized to ...
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• Biased Reporting

  
  Easy Opinions — Authority: 110
  The Media has Always Been Biased 11/25/09 - ChicagoBoyz by Shannon Love Shannon Love excerpts one of his favorite Bloom County comic strips: Milo:  Senator? This is Milo Bloom at the Beacon. Will you confirm that you sunk Jimmy Hoffa in your backyard pond? Sen. Bedfellow:  What? Of course not! Milo:  ...
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• Links for an Epic Post

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  * The Great Game: an experiment in interactive fiction. Looks pretty promising; I voted for “Lovecraftian/cosmic horror.” * Secrets of pinball economics. Via Boing Boing. * Fox News is totally going to get serious about not lying all the time. * How to start reading comics. ( Late-breaking addendum. ...
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• Race and Culture: What determines it?

  
  Fabulously Broke ....in the City — Authority: 554
  I was reading about this news sensation in China, Lou Jing who is singlehandedly drawing some pretty nasty barbs from the Chinese. Read the pretty complete version of the story here, written by the OHN blog . She is half black, half Chinese, raised in Shanghai by her single Chinese mom. Her black father left ...
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• HEARSAY AND CONJECTURE ARE *KINDS* OF EVIDENCE

  
  ginandtacos.com — Authority: 608
  In early 2008 I wrote the following in the wake of the spree-killing-of-the-week at Northern Illinois University that left six dead and eighteen wounded (such an insignificant number on the contemporary scale of random American gun violence that, admit it, you’ve already forgotten about it): Nearly every news ...
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• UPDATE: Reports Say Suspect to Use So-Called ‘Trans Panic Defense’ in Jorge Steven López Murder Case

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  The Puerto Rico-based newspaper El Nuevo Dia reported on Wednesday that Juan Antonio Martínez Matos – the suspect accused of savagely murdering 19 year-old Jorge Steven López – has used the so-called ‘trans panic defense’ while in police custody. The ‘gay panic defense’ or ‘trans panic defense’ ...
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• Why we fail to act (sins of complicity)

  
  Musings of a Christian Psychologist — Authority: 122
  In the wake of the Ft. Hood massacre we are now hearing evidence of a very troubled man–trouble that it appears many observed over the last few years of the Maj. General’s life. Some of his former teachers and supervisors took note of his strange behavior, his loner tendencies, his rages. They even mused about his ...
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• Sunken War Chests

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  I sat on a train heading westward from Toronto. At the stroke of eleven, the train rolled to a stop next to a calm forest lake. A crew member recited "In Flanders Fields". We passengers paid our pittance of time in silent tribute to those who paid so much more. There are no good wars. Perhaps you can argue that ...
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• Awareness of racism affects how children do socially and academi...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  (Society for Research in Child Development) A study of more than 120 ethnically and socioeconomically diverse US elementary school children shows that children develop an awareness about racial stereotypes early and that those biases can be damaging. Specifically, the study illustrates that when children become aware ...
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• Sean Hannity, Media lies, and My Own Bias

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Really Sean Hannity? Your recent reporting (see here: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911100063 ) is such a blatant lie. "The blind spot" bias refers to how people of all walks of life are "blind" to their own biases. In other words, we see ourselves as less biased than others, and those very others see themselves ...
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• Balance Is Key To The Optimum Physique

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  As Purposeful Primitives we understand the need practice two distinct types of training: progressive resistance for the external musculature and cardiovascular training for the internal plumbing. In addition, training need be coordinated with a distinct eating regimen that amplifies instead of retards results. We know ...
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• Never Too Late: Starting New Career After 50

  
  Cyber Flopping! — Authority: 150
  The single thing that’s repeated in this life is change, and starting new career after 50 is not as strange or rare an idea as it seems. The explanations are varied, too. Some may be searching for a career change because they want to, and some because they have to. There isn’t any doubt that it will be a tough ...
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• The Flu Bugaboo

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  With another flu season upon us and the H1N1 ("swine flu") virus looming large in our imaginations, we are in the midst of another predictable conversation over the merits of public vaccination programs. Vaccination is one of those thorny issues, like evolutionary theory, where the controversy in public opinion is ...
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• Why Sleeping On It Helps

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 562
  We’re often told, “You should sleep on it” before you make an important decision. Why is that? How does “sleeping on it” help your decision-making process? Conventional wisdom suggests that by “ sleeping on it ,” we clear our minds and relieve ourselves of the immediacy (and accompanying stress) of ...
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• cognitive biases

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 632
  Cognitive Biases - better list than Wikipedia? I have encountered a few more than mentioned at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases Are there many more or these biases? Please point me in the right direction.THXBB
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