Eliminating bias/living with 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 ...

Towards Eliminating Bias in Cluster Analysis of TB Genotyped Data

The relative contributions of transmission and reactivation of latent infection to TB cases observed clinically has been reported in many situations, but always with some uncertainty. Genotyped data from TB organisms obtained from patients have been used as the basis for heuristic distinctions between circulating (clustered strains) and reactivated infections (unclustered strains). Naïve method...

Eliminating Dynamic Programming Bias in Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms

Eliminating the effect of rating bias on reputation systems

The ongoing rapid development of the e-commercial and interest-base websites make it more pressing to evaluate objects’ accurate quality before recommendation by employing an effective reputation system. The objects’ quality are often calculated based on their historical information, such as selected records or rating scores, to help visitors to make decisions before watching, reading or buying...

The reversal test: eliminating status quo bias in applied ethics.

Suppose that we develop a medically safe and affordable means of enhancing human intelligence. For concreteness, we shall assume that the technology is genetic engineering (either somatic or germ line), although the argument we will present does not depend on the technological implementation. For simplicity, we shall speak of enhancing “intelligence” or “cognitive capacity,” but we do not presu...