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Understanding unconscious bias | The Royal Society

  The unconscious mind is amazing: it has vastly more information than our conscious mind by using shortcuts, based on our background cultural environment, and personal experiences, to make almost instantaneous decisions about everything around us. The snag: is it wrong? Quite a lot of the time, especially on matters that need rational thinking here.’s…

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RIGHT on cue! Boston Globe journo shames the REAL enemy after Warren calls Gillibrand a slut

As Twitchy told you, Elizabeth Warren kinda-sorta totally called her Democratic colleague Kirsten Gillibrand a slut today. That certainly seemed like a newsworthy — or at the very least, mockworthy — story. But according to the Boston Globe’s Astead W. Herndon, conservative media outlets taking Warren to the woodshed were cruelly pouncing: Conservative media have…

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