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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Human bias"”.
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Detecting and mitigating human bias in visual analytics
People are susceptible to a multitude of biases, including perceptual biases and illusions; cognitive biases like confirmation bias or anchoring bias; and social biases like racial or gender bias that are borne of cultural experiences and stereotypes. As humans are an integral part of data analysis …
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A Remote sensing change detection study in the arid Richtersveld region of South Africa
… and able to quantify change with a limited human bias.
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An automatic, multi-fidelity framework for optimizing the performance of super-cavitating hydrofoils using Gaussian process regression and Bayesian optimization
… optimization framework can aid in taking the human out of the design loop, thus freeing manpower resources and removing potential human bias.
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Imagine Yourself: Explorations in Fostering Personal Expression with Generative AI
… promoted with many exciting promises to enhance human creativity. However, it has also been shown to amplify human bias and perpetuate harmful stereotypes. In the new age being ushered in by this technology, this thesis explores how educators and designers can use this technology to support young …
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Evaluator: Cloud-Based Software for Collaborative Evaluation
… a precise evaluation which is not subject to human bias is accomplished. We have created a web-based application called Evaluator which allows the users to execute this methodology step by step. It simplifies the process by providing a user-friendly and easily accessible cloud-based platform …
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Assessing the vegetation and soil shear tester (VASST) as a tool to measure vegetated soil shear strength
… and analyzing VASST outputs to reduce human bias and dramatically decrease processing times of raw data. Evaluating the VASST against calculated soil shear strength as well as other common in-situ strength measurements such as cone index, drop-cone value, and Clegg impact values, …
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Automated Estimation of ISIP and Friction Losses in Hydraulic Fracture Treatment Falloff Data
… (DFIT) data. Furthermore, this study eliminates human bias and the subjectivity that accompanies the manual selection of shut-in pressure and ISIP. Finally, this study opens the door for performing spatial and statistical analysis for field data from several different shale gas and tight oil well …
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Towards multimodal monitoring of large African carnivores
… upon expert judgement and was susceptible to human bias. I develop a machine learning method that automated the identification of lions’ full-throated roars, led to the classification of new type of lion roar – intermediary roar - and subsequently improved the ability to discriminate between …
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The objectivity demand: experiences and behaviors of psychologists in capital case evaluations
… of studies was designed to examine the effect of human bias and error in clinical forensic evaluations. Four specific aims were achieved: 1) integrating quantitative and qualitative methods in compiling descriptive information about forensic psychologists' occupational socialization processes, …
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Law in Aristotle's ethical-political thought
… at whether the law successfully promotes the human good in Aristotle's political philosophy. Aristotle believes law should inculcate the virtues of character. In Chapter One, I argue habituation to virtue through laws does not unacceptably undermine citizens' autonomy. Aristotle intends the …
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Beyond the Bootstrap: Social and Cultural Capital in Hispanic Entrepreneurship
… validation as an algorithmic bypass to overcome human bias in lending and investment, using objective metrics as a social proxy for trust. Ultimately, I introduce the Beyond the Bootstrap Model. This framework shifts the community narrative from necessity-based entrepreneurship toward …
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Portfolio valuation in early drug development : a systematic accounting of utility
… valuation process that is intended to reduce human bias in the decision process, and increase the consistency of multi-criteria consideration. This valuation model for drugs in early development considers monetary and utility values in conjunction with a rules based expert system to estimate …
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Assessment of anthropocentric representations of color patterns for biological relevance
… These observations have led some to propose that human vision and the anthropocentric expressions of coloration based on our vision can never be used to detect variation in animal coloration. Yet this assertion is at odds with a long history of studying animal coloration in ecological, …