RSVP: Audre Newman (audrenew@gmail.com)
When: Wednesday, April 8, 2 p.m.
Where: online via Zoom*
Open to: Ashby Village members and volunteers
Accessibility: n/a (If your home is wheelchair accessible, this meeting is, too)
Unrecognized Bias in Science (and everyday life):
Some Personal Encounters
Bias in Science: Studies using the scientific method have been a very useful way of expanding our knowledge in many areas of life, especially the physical sciences. But science, especially the social sciences, can be led astray by not-so-obvious human biases, ranging, at one extreme, from experimenters deliberately lying for profit or political causes, to, probably much more common, fooling themselves as well as their subjects to produce incorrect and biased, but apparently scientific, outcomes.
Ashby Village member Charley Tart, Professor Emeritus from UC Davis, will describe some of the bias problems he has been personally involved with and will lead a discussion on them as well as touching on how bias works in our everyday lives, as well as in formal, knowledge-seeking activities like science.
A readable background article is Alan Noe’s Research Methods and Bias in Science, available at
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/10/16/449091753/research-methods-and-bias-in-science
*NOTE: If any Ashby Village member would like help with setting up Zoom on their computer or phone or to be walked through the basics of attending a virtual Zoom meeting (video vs audio, etc), they must contact the office, no later than April 6, to request support from a tech volunteer. info@ashbyvillage.org.
All attendees using Zoom for the first time, should "arrive" to the meeting at 1:45pm on April 8, in enough time to troubleshoot any tech issues.
Here is the Zoom meeting link:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/538914160?pwd=cWdHL004SHR3MUxISVE3cGVPNlA2Zz09
Meeting ID: 538 914 160
Password: 056988
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