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Showing 1 to 20 of 5743 for “"bias"”.
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Hindsight Bias and Choice: Understanding Hindsight Bias and Perceived Control
Hindsight bias, more commonly called the "knew-it-all-along" effect is an experience of certainty that one would have to be able to solve a problem or predict an event when the solution or outcome is already known (Fischhoff, 1975). It is one of many heuristics used in everyday information …
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Counselor attributional bias
… a salient fact-or in creating one's perceptual bias of observers, the present research presented subjects with a point of view similar to that of a counselor observing a client in a counseling interview. Subjects were shown three videotaped segments of two actors engaged in brief simulations of …
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Foundations of Ingroup Bias and Similarity Bias in 2-Year-Olds
… patterns and the extent to which similarity bias and ingroup bias are truly distinct. In this thesis, I examined the relative impact of group membership and similarity on matching and non-matching identification, expression of similarity, extension of preferences, transgression attribution, …
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Gender Bias in Engineering: Does More Contact with Female Engineers Reduce Bias?
… and Contact Theory are tested to measure gender bias in engineering students, and to determine if contact with female engineers helps reduce gender bias. To assess this, two versions of a resume, one with a female's name and one with a male's name, were given to senior mechanical engineering …
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Bias, Uncertainty and Ions
This dissertation discusses the development of novel visualization techniques for biopolymer structures, the application of machine learning to biophysical data, and an in depth atomic-level investigation of a therapeutic nucleic acid called “F10.”
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Cognitive Bias Modification & Exercise
… between mental well-being, cognitive bias and physical exercise. The introduction of this thesis begins with a perspective of the relationship between cognitive interpretation bias, physical exercise and mental well-being, specifically anxiety. The thesis begins with two studies which …
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Improving Electromagnetic Bias Estimates
<p>The electromagnetic (EM) bias is the largest source of error in the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 satellite sea surface height (SSH) estimates. Due to incomplete understanding of the physical processes which cause the bias, current operational models are based on empirical relationships between the …
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Anthropomorphic bias in naming
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1999.
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Implications for Multicultural Counseling Training: Motivation, Implicit Race Bias, Empathy and Attribution Bias
… beliefs about race is limited. Implicit race bias is integrated into the present study to better explain practitioners’ multicultural competencies, motivation to respond without prejudice, empathy, and attribution of client concerns. Participants responded to 1 of 2 vignettes that controlled …
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Three essays on bias, bias reduction and estimation in autoregressive time series models
… one. The first essay derives an approximate bias of the ordinary least squares estimator (OLS) of the autoregressive parameter for series with moderate deviations from a unit root and for a fixed autoregressive coefficient. The result is used to derive the asymptotic distribution of the …
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Academic Bias Towards Minority Women
… of this study is to uncover areas of academic bias, specifically in regards to African American women in the classroom. There are some areas where very little research has been done surrounding minority females academic success; these gaps have been compensated with information about how these …
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Sex bias in student assessments
Previous research examining sex bias in student assessments has focused on the differential evaluation of final year project marks (Bradley 1984, 1993, 1994; Newstead and Dennis 1990, 1993; Hartley 1992, 1994) and the pattern of degrees (Rudd 1984, Belsey 1988) awarded to male and female students. …
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Lexical Bias in Speech Errors
… investigated the underlying cause of the lexical bias effect---the tendency for phonological speech errors to be more likely when the outcomes are real words rather than nonwords. This lexical effect on phonological processing can be explained either by feedback, (Dell, 1986); or in models where …
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Corrections for Sample Selection Bias
… to correct for the effects of sample selection bias are examined for robustness to violations of assumptions in this Monte Carlo study. Corrections derived by Pearson (1903) for cases of explicit and incidental selection are found to be sensitive to variations in (1) the linearity of the …
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Exchange bias in patterned nanostructures
Exchange bias between a ferromagnet (FM) and antiferromagnet (AFM), which is utilized to pin the magnetization of a FM into a fixed direction in space, is essential in commonly used electronic components such as magnetic recording heads and magnetic memory cells, as well as novel magnetic logic and …
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Electromagnetic bias in Geosat altimetry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991.
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Analytic bias in coocurrence restrictions
The representation, content and learning of phonotactic constraints has spurred a lot of recent research phonology. This work concerns the constraints involved in the representation of place-based coocurrence restrictions. A single OCP-[PLACE] constraint is argued to compete in in constraint …
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