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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"personal bias"”.
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Technology maturity analysis for assessing capacity and schedule risk of future automation projects
… the time to decision, reduce the influence of personal bias, and improve the estimation of risk impact when evaluating proposed automation systems. The risk assessment method is based on the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) framework, coupled with a mathematical simulation of the manufacturing …
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Psychotherapists' beliefs and attitudes towards polyamory
… with polyamory, beliefs about treatment, and personal bias. Additionally, psychotherapists’ awareness of polyamory was measured. A measure of social desirability and a brief measure of attitudes towards polyamory was included for the analysis of validity for the PAPS. Participants included 171 …
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L'Auguste Autrichienne : representations of Marie-Antoinette in 19th century French literature and history
… attempts to capture what they observed. However, personal bias, political leanings, and accepted rumor led them to do more than record what they saw. Rather than simply narrate a scene, these early witnesses of Marie-Antoinette became the interpreters of her thoughts, motives and feelings. As …
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Unhoused individuals' experiences of being policed in Cape Town
… legislation may ignore factors such as personal bias and a willingness to use violence by law enforcement, and a lack of broader governmental, institutional and public support. Paying greater attention to this could ultimately shape interventions and thus more effectively address the …
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Selecting criteria for the evaluation of secondary school assistant principals based upon item discrimination power
… in the evaluation process so as to offset personal bias.</p>
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An experimental investigation using Cognitive Bias Modification for paranoid attributions in a non-clinical sample: Effects upon interpretation bias, emotions, and paranoia following a stressful paranoia induction.
… that paranoid individuals display an ‘external-personal bias’ of blaming negative events on other people rather than situational circumstances or themselves, however, the literature remains equivocal. This study tested whether Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretations (CBM-I) could train a …
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Bitcoin adoption in South Africa, an end user perspective
… to the effects of social phenomena and personal bias. This study investigates the adoption of Bitcoin in South Africa, a developing African country, from an end user's perspective. Importance will be placed on identifying and assessing challenges that may inhibit the widespread adoption …
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Algorithm and Decision in Musical Composition
… (but not limited to) imagination, judgement and personal bias could only, and hypothetically, be properly simulated by the most sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, important aspects of composition such as instrumentation, articulation and orchestration were not subjected …
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Work as feminist activism: a qualitative case study
… thesis involve a feminist woman integrating the personal and political through her job. The notion of activist is expanded from a possibly more extreme, risk-taking position on the margins of society to include seeing all means for economic subsistence as an extension of our feminist selves, …
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They Say You Can't Get Fat on Love
… short stories that challenge commonly-held biases by highlighting the harsh, abrupt crises that occur when characters learn what they believe to be true is erroneous. The creation of these individual worlds emphasizes the characters’ history, worldview, and indoctrination. This work aims to …
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Using scripture in Christian ethics: Interacting with Richard Hays's "The Moral Vision of the New Testament"
… opens his method up to greater subjectivity and personal bias; and lastly, Hays's approach provides no criteria for judging whether an appropriation is faithful, it unwittingly relies on transcendent ethical principles, and it fails to distinguish between interpretation and application. After …
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Implications for Resident Adviser Training Programs: Using the Critical Incident Technique to Evaluate the RA Experience
… environment, department philosophy, and personal bias on the training of RAs. The results suggest that each of these factors influences the success of RAs, and defines the environments in which resident students live.
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AfD partijos didėjančio palaikymo priežastys: Saksonijos atvejo analizė /
… AfD party; 2. Growing dissatisfaction with the personal and regional economic situation among the citizens of the region might have led to a higher support for the AfD as an alternative to the existing economic policy; 3. Increasing opposition to immigration policy in Saxony may have led to …