Implicit Bias: Scientific Foundations

Implicit bias.

e all have it. Implicit bias was the shorthand that allowed our distant ancestors to make split-second decisions (friend or foe?) based on incomplete information. It provided a razor-thin reaction-time advantage that could mean life or death. But today, we no longer need to assume that people who do not look or sound like us pose an immediate threat. Instead, successful organizations and people...

Foundations of Scientific Research

A well prepared abstract should enable the reader to identify the basic contentof a document quickly and accurately, to determine its relevance to their interests, andthus to decide whether to read the document in its entirety. The abstract shouldconcisely state the principal objectives and scope of the investigation where these arenot obvious from the title. More importantly, i...

Scientific Foundations of Surgery

Foundations of Implicit Function Types

Implicit parameters are used pervasively in Scala and are also present in a number of other programming and theorem proving languages. Œis paper describes a generalization of implicit parameters as they are currently found in Scala to implicit function types. We motivate the construct by a series of examples and provide formal foundations that closely follow the semantics implemented by the Sca...

Responsibility for Implicit Bias

Philosophers who have written about implicit bias have claimed or implied that individuals are not responsible, and therefore not blameworthy, for their implicit biases, and that this is a function of the nature of implicit bias as implicit: below the radar of conscious reflection, out of the control of the deliberating agent, and not rationally revisable in the way many of our reflective belie...