Biases

Elizabeth Carlen, a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University in St. Louis, shows other reported sightings of plants on iNaturalist, a community scientist mobile app, on her phone, on Monday, March 18, 2024, in Fairground Park in Fairgrounds. Carlen notes the park’s lack of low-terrain features like bushes and hills as a policing tactic, which adversely also affects Eastern Gray Squirrels and other wildlife in parks in low-income neighborhoods.

The Delmar Divide also shows up in data from citizen wildlife observations

Kate Grumke

Cell phone apps allow citizen scientists to collect observations of plants and animals on a huge scale, but the data from these apps can be biased.

Sarah Hercula teaches a class at Missouri S&T in this 2018 file photo.

Government, Politics & Issues

Missouri S&T Professor Sees Racism In Linguistics And Proposes Solution

Jonathan Ahl

Missouri S&T English professor and author Sarah Hercula says our language is fraught with racism and sexism, but there is a linguistics approach to changing that.

Left, Calvin Lai and David Karandish joined host Don Marsh on Monday’s “St. Louis on the Air” to discuss bias in artificial intelligence.

Economy & Business

‘Inequality wasn’t the intention, but inequality was the outcome’: Addressing bias in AI software

Caitlin Lally

From Siri and Alexa to algorithms on Facebook and beyond, artificial intelligence is becoming more commonplace in our daily routines than ever before.…

People wait to enter the Check Your Blind Spot mobile museum outside the Express Scripts headquarters in St. Louis County on Monday, March 5, 2017.

Economy & Business

St. Louis companies, universities encourage leaders and employees to check their bias

Ashley Lisenby

Dozens of people visited a mobile museum dedicated to educating the public about unconscious bias at the Express Scripts headquarters in north St. Louis…

(L-R) Nicole Roach, Catrina Salama and Kenneth Pruitt talked about recognizing unconscious bias, how to manage it and how that can help further understanding and inclusion.

Government, Politics & Issues

Recognizing unconscious bias and what we can do about it

Lara Hamdan

Workplaces and institutions are implementing un-bias trainings to promote inclusivity. According to Kenneth Pruitt, director of diversity training at…

Government, Politics & Issues

Commentary: Goodnight, Irene: Reflections on media bias

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 1, 2011 - By now, nearly everyone agrees that the mainstream media have a distinctly liberal…

Government, Politics & Issues

Commentary: Race: defining terms

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 20, 2009 - As the “Race, Frankly” series begins, I feel it is essential that we have a…