Gender bias when assessing recommended ecology articles

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias:

We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an “evaluation nudge,” in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual performance in joint than in separate evaluation and on group stereotypes in separate than in joint evaluation, making joint eva...

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint vs. Separate Evaluation

We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an “evaluation nudge,” in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual performance in joint than in separate evaluation and on group stereotypes in separate than in joint evaluation, making joint eva...

When logic fails ecology.

Ecology plays an important role in society, informing policy and management decisions across a variety of issues. As such, regularities in processes would indicate higher levels of predictive outcomes and would reduce the amount of research required for specific issues that policy makers need addressed. Scientific laws are considered the pinnacle of success and usefulness in addressing regulari...

Identifying Political Bias in News Articles

Assessing Attrition Bias – Addendum

A. INTRODUCTION This document serves as an addendum to the existing attrition white paper (“Assessing Attrition Bias” version 2.1) previously used for the WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook, version 2.1. This document does not recommend any substantive changes to the version 2.1 attrition bounds. Instead, this addendum presents additional empirical information and sensitivity analyses to sup...