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Unconscious Bias

Confronting the Unconscious Bias Innate in All of Us

Dr Therese Coffey | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK Politics
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Dr Therese Coffey

If you are six foot tall, in a group of strangers do you tend to speak first to people of a similar height or do you go looking for the smallest person in the room? Why is that? Unconscious bias is innate within each and every one of us. Our instinct will often seek out people we assume are similar to us.

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All-Male BBC Sports Shortlist Down to Men's Obsession With Men

Gloria Moss | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK
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Gloria Moss

Tonight will decide the winner of this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year. You might think that with a 27-strong jury, the list would be a fair reflection of Britain's greatest sporting talent. However, the absence of any women on the list has already raised eyebrows and findings from research I have just conducted points a finger at the culprit. Men's obsession with men.

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