The ’beauty bias‚’ where attractive people appear to have an advantage‚ isn’t just a rumor. There is evidence that it exists and that it leads to discrimination against less attractive people in a variety of areas‚ including hiring. Not only is it unfair‚ in some cases it’s illegal discrimination. Attractiveness isn’t in the same category as gender‚ race‚ religion‚ or nationality but that doesn’t mean hiring based on looks is ok under the law. Federal laws on employment discrimination don’t
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HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY AND OMEGA TRIANGLES Hyperbolic geometry was first discovered and explored by Omar Khayyam in the 9th century and Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri in the 15th century. Both were attempting to prove Euclid’s parallel postulate by proving the concept of hyperbolic geometry to be inconsistent‚ and ironically they discovered it to be a new type of geometry. It wasn’t until the 19th century that it became fully developed with help from Karl Friedrich Gauss‚ Janos Bolyai‚ and Nikolai
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We have a tendency to draw inferences between people’s actions and their personalities. This is what’s known as a “correspondence bias‚ or attribution error.” These biases‚ or errors‚ occur when we automatically link what we view as “bad or inappropriate behaviors‚ with internal personality flaws‚ rather than taking into consideration possible external factors‚ such as environmental causes‚ that may account for the behavior in question. For example: when the clerk at Wal-Mart doesn’t smile while
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Individual Bias‚ Rhetorical Devices‚ and Argumentation COM/220 12/04/2011 Individual Bias‚ Rhetorical Devices‚ and Argumentation I saw several examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and rhetorical devices employed in this speech. The Perils of Indifference was a speech that was both written and given by Eli Weisel‚ to former president Bill Clinton and his wife on April 12‚1999 in Washington‚ D.C In his speech‚ Elie Wiesel addresses Mr. and Mrs. Clinton and the members of Congress‚ in an attempt
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Representation and Bias By Deborah Callaway Herzing College Online W4A1-Reflection Assignment November 26‚ 2009 Representation and Bias When creating or reviewing a research study‚ we need to consider the information and decide if it is representative or biased in order to make clear decisions. When the information or sample is representative‚ it means that the people studied are like the people who you wish to generalize and it must have the same significant
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Cognitive Bias When I think of cognitive bias‚ I think about people making assumptions about others base on either what they have heard from other people or something they have experienced themselves. In order to figure out what biases I have I had to ask my wife. After some discussion we came to the conclusion that I have a couple of biases. The two that we came up with can be very controversial‚ religion and race. I wouldn’t say that I’m a religious freak or that I’m racist‚ I just have my own
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naked for truth. Arms wide-spread in accepting knowledge. And looking up seeking guidance from the One above. Oh yeah‚ a fraternity in my university also mimics (legally) the ’nakedness’ of our symbol. Every 16 December‚ the anniversary of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity‚ they hold oblation runs. I don’t want to put links here‚ so you better go ahead and discover what oblation run is about. Please search at your own risk. The Next Step by Alvin John ~AJ~ After spending around 7 months of my life without
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Detecting Media Bias Teresa Liles HUM/114 December 10‚ 2012 Christopher Page Detecting Media Bias Same-sex marriage has been an on-going battle for many years. California’s opposition to same-sex marriage‚ Proposition 8‚ barely passed in the 2008 election. Same-sex marriage has been a news-worthy topic since 1997 when Hawaii passed a Domestic Partnership policy which triggered other states to change policies as well. This issue started a state-to-state debate of whether same-sex couples should
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different perspectives telling different stories that are brought up by Homer’s Odyssey in The Penelopiad. The book illustrates just how different the same story can be told from different perspectives and the issues it may cause. The polarizing‚ bias and flawed
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As Aristotle once said “Beauty‚ is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction” (www.thinkexist.com). The beauty bias is the notion that people who are attractive are usually rewarded socially. The idea of beauty is a socially accepted principle and although this principle has been widely accepted from the beginning of time‚ the standards of beauty have drastically changed from the past. In today’s society‚ there is a large amount of discrimination based on the physical attractiveness
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