Bias

A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Bias Modification in Real and Placebo Conditions on Attentional Bias and Approach Bias in Opium Abusers

Background & Aim: Inability to control drug use is considered a core aspect of drug dependency. Part of this inability is due to cognitive biases resulting from individuals’ constant usage of drugs. The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive bias modification in real and placebo conditions on attentional bias and approach bias in opium abusers. Methods: This stud...

The Effect of Cognitive Bias Modification in the Attention Bias of Students With Test Anxiety

Abstract Introduction: Many of the students chr('39')educational problems, including academic failure and maladaptive behaviors, stem from exam anxiety caused by studentschr('39') cognitive bias. Cognitive bias modification can reduce attention biases students to be negative. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive bias modification interven...

The bias bias

Eliminating bias/living with bias?

The scientific method and elements of bias are fundamentally at odds with one another. While the prior seeks to identify truth through objective analysis, the latter wishes to prove one's preconceptions through artificially created or filtered observations. Both the scientific method and bias are purpose-driven notions, both serve an intrinsic value. Arguably the more general and truly-lasting ...

Selection Bias, Label Bias, and Bias in Ground Truth

Language technology is biased toward English newswire. In POS tagging, we get 97–98 words right out of a 100 in English newswire, but results drop to about 8 out of 10 when running the same technology on Twitter data. In dependency parsing, we are able to identify the syntactic head of 9 out of 10 words in English newswire, but only 6–7 out of 10 in tweets. Replace references to Twitter with re...