Tag archive for ‘statistics’
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What are your implicit biases?
Project Implicit is a research project at Harvard that has been examining implicit biases since 1998. By going to the project’s website, you can view a demonstration of the tests they use to determine if you have an implicit bias. Here are the most important findings of the project so far: Implicit biases are pervasive. [...]
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Pay gap for faculty
Inside Higher Ed presents an article on recent research into the persistent gender pay gap in higher education faculty. The story describes a study by Laura Meyers, a doctoral candidate at our own University of Washington. Some highlights from the article: The gender gap in faculty pay cannot be explained completely by the long careers [...]
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Wikipedia desperate for female contributors
This article at the New York Times discusses the severe gender skew in Wikipedia contributing authors. Less than 15% of contributors are female. The result is not only a skew in perspective for the articles that exist, but a severe skew in which articles get created in the first place. Articles on everyday things (rather [...]
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New York Times on Beyond Bias
Here, the New York Times has its take on the National Academy of Sciences’ report on women in science careers (Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering). Although NYT says that the report “recommends a sweeping overhaul of our institutions”, little has changed in the four years since [...]
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Beyond Bias and Barriers
The NAS press has their study on women in science careers, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, available online for your reading pleasure. The report was released in 2006. Here’s a description: The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. To maintain its [...]