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Public Choice, 2008
We examine the effects of providing more accurate information to a political decision-maker lobbied by competing interests. We investigate how this bias in the direction of the correct decision affects efficiency, measured (inversely) by both the probability of taking an incorrect decision, and the amount of social waste associated to lobbying ...
Matthias Dahm, Nicolás Porteiro
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Biased Priorities, Biased Outcomes

Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2020
In this paper, we analyze the relation between data-related biases and practices of data annotation, by placing them in the context of market economy. We understand annotation as a praxis related to the sensemaking of data and investigate annotation practices for vision models by focusing on the values that are prioritized by industrial decision-makers
Gunay Kazimzade, Milagros Miceli
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The cognitive biases of cognitive biases

Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2021
AbstractAn increased awareness of the cognitive biases of clinical decision making over the last decade has not resulted in a corresponding decrease in clinician error. The inappropriate use of cognitive bias labels in adverse incident reviews can result in unintentional or intentional blame.
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BIASED NEWS OR BIASED PUBLIC?

Journalism Studies, 2012
This study investigated the causes of individuals’ perceived news bias in an authoritarian press system—Singapore. We proposed two explanations for individuals’ perception of news article slant: the judgment-heuristic explanation and the attitude-influenced explanation.
Stella C. Chia, Mark Cenite
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Biased Knowers, Biased Reasons, and Biased Philosophers

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism
Abstract In Bias: A Philosophical Study, Thomas Kelly offers a response to epistemological skepticism grounded in his account of bias. According to Kelly, the classic argument for skepticism is best understood as an attempt to show that our commonsense beliefs are biased against the skeptic. Kelly grants that this is true but argues that biased beliefs
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Biased Surveys

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Luca Gemmi, Rosen Valchev
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Sampling Biases Explain Decision Biases

2017
Sampling explanations focus on biases in the information available to managers instead of biases in how managers process the available information. Managers seldom have access to a random or representative sample of outcomes. The available sample of outcomes is often subject to a selection bias.
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