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Posts tagged ‘bias’

2011.11.08   Linkspam as portrayed by an actress from a younger generation   (32)

Linkspam returns in an all-new series. IT workplaces, sexy superheroines and more.

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2011.03.05   Wikipedia and non-mainstream views   (3)

I was cynical about Wikipedia’s openness to minority views in the comments of a previous post, I’m a woman, and I’ve edited Wikipedia. Based on past experience as a former, obsessive Wikipedia editor several years ...

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2010.11.10   The opposite of fun: how would you build an educational game about bias?   (27)

A friend of mine sent me a link to this article about a $2 Million Grant To Develop Game That Breaks Bias Against Women In Sciences, and he pointed out that making hard work decisions ...

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2010.08.24   The Myth of White Male Geek Rationality   (23)

This post was originally published at Restructure! People who consider themselves fully rational individuals are ignorant about basic psychology and their own minds. It is easy for white men in science, technology, engineering, and math ...

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2010.07.07   Male geeks reclaim masculinity at the expense of female geeks.   (113)

This post was originally published at Restructure! Most male geeks believe that they are subverting traditional masculinity by reclaiming and self-identifying with the term “geek”. For most male geeks, geek identity is defined partly as ...

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