/channels/taxonomy/term/1347/all en /channels/channels/news/how-our-own-identity-impacts-how-we-judge-others-345764 <p>How does our own identity impact how we perceive and judge others? Research from ƻ����Ժ has found that those who are most likely to be stereotyped based on their combined racial and gender identity, such as Black women and Asian men, were less likely to hold certain stereotypes against others.</p> Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:11:14 +0000 webfull 187066 at /channels /channels/channels/event/stereotypes-and-body-language-courtrooms-when-misconceptions-distort-justice-334335 <p><a href="https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/onstage/g.php?MTID=eaf375b3cadc3b5cfc60b8624a1cf2ccf" target="_blank"><img src="//www.mcgill.ca/continuingstudies/files/continuingstudies/004-10-21-pd_stereotypesandbodylanguageincourtroomswhenmisconception</body></html>" /></a></p> Thu, 21 Oct 2021 23:52:25 +0000 webfull 174235 at /channels /channels/channels/event/science-and-pseudoscience-non-verbal-communication-334304 <p><img src="//www.mcgill.ca/continuingstudies/files/continuingstudies/003-10-21-pd_thescience-andpseudoscience-ofnon-verbalcommunication_webinar_webex.jpg" style="width:700px; height:366px" /></p> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 20:30:21 +0000 webfull 174136 at /channels /channels/news/new-book-reveals-hidden-biases-can-creep-data-science-models-262549 <p>Yesterday (September 6, 2016) saw the launch of a new book by Cathy O'Neil with the provactive title <em>Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy</em>. O'Neil holds a Ph.D. from Harvard in Math and was a tenure-track math professor until 2007, when she quit academia to join Wall Street. That fledging second career came to an end just a year later with the Financial Crisis, after which O'Neil again changed careers and became a data scientist.</p> Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:27:40 +0000 webfull 121047 at /channels /channels/news/gender-bias-issue-249207 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:09:09 +0000 webfull 109827 at /channels