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	Bias blind spot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bias blind spot is a cognitive bias about not compensating for one's own cognitive biases.
		Pronin and her co-authors explained to subjects the better-than-average effect, the halo effect, self-serving bias and many other cognitive biases.
		According to that better-than-average bias, specifically, people are likely to see themselves as inaccurately "better than average" for possible positive traits and "less than average" for negative traits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bias_blind_spot (206 words)

	Blind Lens Testing Proposal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		One of the problems in blind testing of images is that it is hard to make two identical compositions with different lenses and cameras so meaningful results only occur with a fairly great number of images of different types.
		Basically, a blind tester can pick out one brand or the other over 85% of the time without knowing which brand it is using a variety of subjects.
		That he agrees with you, and that a blind test is the only way to be sure one camera is turning out better images than the other.
	medfmt.8k.com /mf/blind.html (7492 words)

	EUROPA - European Commission - Road Transport - Road Safety - Blind spot mirrors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Extrapolating these figures to the rest of the EU (and correcting them to eliminate the "Netherlands bias" due to the very high cycle population in that country) one could derive that about 500 fatalities of the 40000 yearly ones are caused by right turning trucks.
		As many severe road accidents at crossings, junctions or roundabouts are caused by vehicle drivers who are unaware that other road users are very close to, or beside, their vehicles, the measures are designed to reduce blind spots in the immediate area around vehicles.
		It estimates the benefits to be approximately four times higher than the costs for the retrofitting of lateral blind spot mirrors to existing goods vehicles over 3.5 t.
	europa.eu.int /comm/transport/road/roadsafety/equipment/blindspotmirrors/index_en.htm (617 words)

	UNCoRRELATED: The Blind Won't Lead-1 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the stars aligned to highlight the immense blind spot conservatives had with relation to capital's responsibilities towards society--they didn't think they had any.
		We've come full circle to where the left has demonstrated their similarly crippling blind spot, and it appears from the history of the past 25 years, that they will also wander the political wilderness for a generation or two as a consequence.
		As if that lesson was not enough, we have clear unmistakeable evidence that the left, in the guise of the Clinton administration, had a tremendous blind spot as it concerned the Islamofascists.
	www.uncorrelated.com /archives/000065.html (824 words)

	List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia
		Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality (see also cognitive distortion).
		Some of these have been verified empirically in the field of psychology, others are considered general categories of bias.
		This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases (127 words)

	Bias [Oct 2000; 80-2] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For the avoidance of doubt, the clinical bottom line is that wherever bias is found it results in a large over-estimation of the effect of treatments.
		Because of the large bias expected from studies which are not randomised or not blind, a scoring system [1] that is highly dependent on randomisation and blinding will also correlate with bias.
		That bias is present, and exists in so many different forms is why we have to be vigilant when reading about a clinical trial, and especially when taking the results of a single trial into clinical practice.
	www.jr2.ox.ac.uk /bandolier/band80/b80-2.html (2665 words)

	Journal of Buddhist Ethics
		Blind to our karmic or dramatically interdependent nature and firmly holding to the either/or logic of the excluded middle, we have developed a notion of freedom that is contradictory and self-defeating.
		This is not to suggest, of course, that a cultural bias for seeing persons as relational in nature can be strictly correlated with an absence of structural inequities and abusive denials of dignity.
		With its bias toward control, it can no more avoid reproducing the conditions of conflict -- and so the need for reinforcing or enforcing power -- that we could get a guitar trio to happily change songs by physically interrupting and redirecting their fingering patterns.
	jbe.gold.ac.uk /6/hershock991.html (10359 words)

	Scientific American: The Enchanted Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The self-serving bias, for example, dictates that we tend to see ourselves in a more positive light than others see us: national surveys show that most businesspeople believe that they are more moral than other businesspeople, and psychologists who study moral intuition think they are more moral than other such psychologists.
		Princeton University psychology professor Emily Pronin and her colleagues tested an idol called bias blind spot, in which subjects recognized the existence and influence of eight different cognitive biases in other people but failed to see those same biases in themselves.
		Even when the subjects were warned about the "better than average" bias and asked to reconsider their original assessments, 63 percent claimed that their initial evaluations were objective, and 13 percent even claimed to be too modest.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=00044900-A374-1084-983483414B7F0000 (688 words)

	The Jakarta Post - Anniversary Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is the bias of favoring the influx of big capital (say, US$ 10 billion) rather than that of nurturing the untapped energies of small or medium-size capital (for example, Rp 5 million or Rp 50 million).
		In many cases, the bias even takes the form of an excessive favor for the former at the expense of the latter.
		Second, the bias in favor of giant global capital, insofar as it is followed by the neglect of medium and small-size local capital, seems to have reached a point in which anyquestioning of this megalomaniac tendency is deemed as narrow-minded nationalism.
	www.thejakartapost.com /leadb16_2.asp (1389 words)

	[Ausrace] Track Bias
		The essence of bias is the fact that a track, on a give day, "can" have some sections that are firmer than other sections....caused by all sorts of factors.
		Perhaps the best and most obvious example of this is the flemington straight where often the outside has proven to be consistently faster than the inside.
		you spot a horse who is a known leader.
	home.it.net.au /pipermail/ausrace/2003-July/028244.html (1229 words)

	University of Minnesota Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The blind spot in the nicotine replacement therapy literature: assessment of the double-blind
		The current review sought to describe the methods assessing blindness as well as the frequency of blindness failure, blindness bias, and bias correction.
		First, we examined the methods of assessing study blindness including: (a) judge type (i.e., participant or experimenter); (b) rationale for judgment (e.g., side effects); and (c) confidence in judgment.
	www.tturc.umn.edu /page/sp/sp50-2002.html (273 words)

	The Mediators Role: Tackling Their Illusion of Objectivity
		Psychologists who study the effect of bias on decision-making indicated that we are always wrong if we think that we can be impartial and exhibit no bias.
		Human Beings’ Unconscious Bias Researchers of studies conducted by Stanford University, have concluded that even when we think we are compensating for our bias, it is not something we can easily remove or factor out of our decisions because it operates unconsciously.
		The Bias Blind Spot: Perception of Bias in Self Versus Others (2002) The same person who is fairly objective when judging himself or herself may be highly biased when assessing others or vice versa.
	www.mediate.com /articles/morenoE1.cfm (597 words)

	Construction Owners & Builders Law Blog: Inability to Recognize Juror Bias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A recent post over at Point of Law by Jonathan Wilson unwittingly proves the existence of blind spot bias.
		In layman's language--a person with "blind spot bias" thinks his own point of view the product of "right reason" and the point of view of anyone who disagrees with him as the product of "bias."
		When a prospective juror's "political feelings" about tort reform or any other issue are so strong the prospective juror favors one side over another even before they have heard the evidence, that juror is biased and should be excused from service.
	www.constructionownerslawblog.com /106-print.html (207 words)

	DLC: Working Far from Home by Margy Waller and Mark Alan Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The bias lies in our willingness to consign poor people to barely functioning public systems from which higher-income citizens routinely withdraw (as in public schools, public health, public safety, and public space).
		The bias is expressed in the overheard comment of one senior official from a national public transit organization, "Show me a thirty-year-old man on a bus, and I'll show you a failure."
		Yet, there is a bias in both formal program rules and informal decisions favoring public transit as the job access solution for low-income workers.
	www.dlc.org /ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=828&kaid=114&subid=143 (1227 words)

	Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Newspaper Edition - Your Community News Source Since 1876.
		I was both troubled and saddened to learn that our Mayor decided not to reappoint Colin Swales to a position on the Planning Commission where he has served the citizens of this town with dedication and a healthy sense of community values for more than 3 years.
		The blind spot in this logic is that our mayor himself aligns with a particular bias as well, albeit the dominant power-bias of those who view Ashland primarily through the lens of commerce.
		In which case, one could just as easily turn the mayor's argument against himself, suggesting that one bias - the one in power - is simply using its leverage to cancel out the influence of an annoying counter-bias that is less interested in marketing the charm of Ashland than in saving it.
	www.dailytidings.com /2004/0506/050604forum.shtml (560 words)

	Portable Hunting Blind -- Portable Hunting Blind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This "Portable Hunting Blind" information is definitely "cutting edge." Whenever you want to come back to this fun "Portable Hunting Blind" site just click here and you'll be blown away by what happens next.
		By using a portable hydraulic hunting blind called a Huntmaster, many who otherwise wouldn t be able to get out in the field are able to-and with success.
		door blinds blind logos building deer blinds 3 blind mice are dogs color blind 'the blind robins' portable hunting blind homer the blind poet third eye blind semi charmed life blind woman with dark...
	www.bbblinds.com /portablehuntingblind (2111 words)

	On Not Being a Patsy for Today's Intellectuals
		There were few issues of media bias in the first of these three events (the O.J. trial) because — at least among the press and intelligentsia — the political and ideological issues were not as heightened, polarized, or emotional: Liberal and conservative journalists and intellectuals who followed the legal proceedings agreed O.J. was guilty.
		There was nothing but bias in the presentation of the last two events (the prolonged coverage of Florida and the immediate treatment of Rice).
		If you live in a country where the press has a strong bias or blind spot (true in much of the world), you can defend yourself by using a library, reading non-local or foreign publications, or, easiest of all, surfing the web.
	www.theatlasphere.com /columns/printer_040419_coates_notapatsy.php (1336 words)

	Discriminations: Another Curious Criticism of "Race Blind" Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Absent is any mention of recent cases in which courts found children had been wrongly removed to foster care because their mothers were battered, homeless or ineligible for public assistance.
		Nowhere is it more apparent that Kennedy's vision of a race-blind society has a blind spot for economic inequality.
		I strongly suspect his point is that all foster kids should be made available for adoption much quicker than is now being done, and so much the better if that results in more fl kids being adopted by white parents.
	www.discriminations.us /archives/000483.html (606 words)

	Home Theater SPOT! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For starters, as far as what the comparison has consisted of has been a week's worth of blind testing between the SVS and the Hsu subs, and some measurements of SPL ability of a single VTF-3/2.
		The first series of tests were "blind", meaning Craig did not find out the identity of the subs he listened to until PART I of the testing was complete.
		After all blind listening sessions were complete, Crag’s son revealed the identities of the subs Craig compared.
	www.hometheaterspot.com /htsthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=558589&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31&fpart=1 (3234 words)

	The Stampede, Mattingly page
		After nearly two decades of studying this issue, in academic settings and while working in the media, I am convinced four different forms of bias are to blame for this media blind spot.
		The result is, at best, a blind spot on religious issues, and the people who care about them.
		A now infamous case came in February, when The Washington Post printed a story that said evangelical Christians are ``largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.'' A Post correction bluntly said there was ``no factual basis'' for this statement.
	tmatt.gospelcom.net /tmatt/freelance/Quill93.php (1330 words)

	Demosophia: Bias, Ethics and Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But leaving aside the issue of press bias, it's important for us to begin to consider paradigmatic changes in the way our criminal justice system operates, and especially with regard to the principle of an "innocent until proved guilty" standard.
		That is one possible formulation of non-bias, that is subject to a tradeoff that optimizes the risk of a particular type of error: the erroneously acqutted defendent.
		A special standard of legal ethics relating to harm to children, which you were told by the instructor at Willamette Law School is the rule, would be flawed thinking, but there's no such legal principle, at least not generally.
	www.demosophia.com /2004/05/bias_ethics_and.html (1869 words)

	raving lunacy: cognitive bias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A 'cognitive bias' is a kind of blind-spot in our brains -- the result of short-cuts or habits within our thinking process -- that can lead us to make less productive choices.
		This list contains a long sequence of suggested biases, some of which have been shown repeatedly in clinical testing, others that are just theoretical.
		I probably suffer from the Lake Woebegon bias.
	theheadlemur.typepad.com /ravinglunacy/2005/02/cognitive_bias.html (167 words)

	Face Blind! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I'm assuming that, if you don't know me personally, you're reading my blog because you're either face blind yourself, or are interesting in prosopagnosia for some other reason.
		Then one day when Jane herself was over, she saw the picture of me and Bills and asked Mark, "Is that me?" He ran to get me, and his vindication.
		So I guess being face blind means that not only do different-looking people look the same to me, but similar-looking people look different.
	faceblind.blogspot.com /2004_01_01_faceblind_archive.html (5652 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: The Passion of the Propaganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bias and sociopolitical steering in film is a fact of life, and has been since the medium began.
		Indeed, the bias in some of these academic-type programs is actually quite fierce.
		For example, looking back on every documentary I’ve ever seen, I can think of perhaps one that didn’t present a massive skew… and critics were panning it precisely for its lack of bias.
	www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/columns/propaganda_7_14_04.html (634 words)

	Mayan Majix - Articles - Scalia's Blind Eye
		Federal rules instruct a judge to disqualify himself "in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned." Though these ethics rules apply to all federal courts, the Supreme Court does not have a formal policy for ensuring that individual justices follow them.
		Chief Justice William Rehnquist appears to have the same ethical blind spot, dismissing as "ill considered" the letters he received from four Democratic lawmakers questioning Scalia's continued participation in Cheney's case.
		Yet the other seven justices must surely understand that their court's reputation for independence, already called into question by the Bush vs. Gore decision, is now very much on the line.
	www.mayanmajix.com /art575.html (511 words)

	Skeptics Society--eSkeptic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The self-serving bias, for example, dictates that we tend to see ourselves in a more positive light than others see us: national surveys show that most business people believe they are more moral than other business people.
		Experimental evidence of such cognitive idols has been provided by Princeton University psychology professor Emily Pronin and her colleagues, who tested a generalized idol called “bias blind spot,” in which subjects recognized the existence and influence in others of eight different specific cognitive biases, but they failed to see those same biases in themselves.
		In general, most people attribute their own belief in God to such intellectual reasons as the good design and complexity of the world, whereas they attribute others’ belief in God to such emotional reasons as it is comforting, gives meaning, and that they were raised to believe.
	www.skeptic.com /eskeptic01-07-05a.html (4165 words)

	Honest Bias By William Saletan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An excellent thread on the Supreme Court and bias starts here--the best-tempered discussion ever to contain the words 'self-delusional', 'arbitary and irrational', 'disillusioning' (possibly because these words are not being applied to the posters).
		This is a good argument for limiting the government to matters where the outputs are visible and where bias plays a relatively small role (eg defending the borders, building roads) rather than areas where the outputs are hard to measure and bias can play a huge role (eg "making a better America").
		What is aggravating about much political commentary, and most politicians, is not that they indulge in hypocrisy, for nothing is as trite, tired, and utterly redundant in politics than a charge of hypocrisy.
	slate.msn.com /id/95513 (2216 words)

	Chicago Boyz: Comment on A Leftist Blind Spot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I doubt that there will be any real pressure on that front.
		"Bias" was one of the seven wise men of classic greece for a good reason.
		All groups of people who self-identify with this or that ideological platform have blind spots that typically form a sort of gaussian cloud of probability that's related to the core premises associated with said ideology.
	www.chicagoboyz.net /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=3295 (646 words)

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