• Miscellaneous

    Posted on April 22nd, 2009

    Written by William

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    Reverse discrimination suit could impact nation

    Reverse discrimination suit could impact nation

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday evaluates a case involving race, testing and job promotions. A case from the New Haven Fire Department poses the questions: Just what is a job-related test? How should a city evaluate applicants for leadership positions? If a city thinks a test that was used will result in a lawsuit, does [...]

  • Health

    Posted on October 30th, 2008

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    Doctors unconsciously favor white patients

    This is interesting, although not necessarily surprising:
    The LA Times is reporting that researchers have shown that doctors have an unconscious bias in how they view patients, favoring white patients over black patients.
    The data come from a sample of more than 400,000 people who anonymously took a race attitude Implicit Association Test. The test captures subconscious [...]