Affinity Bias: We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Working on self-awareness can help you realistically assess your strengths and weaknesses. Try to avoid blaming outside factors for negative outcomes. You can accept feedback and be open to ...

Implicit bias refers to unconscious stereotypes against others and how they affect our behavior. Implicit bias, aka unconscious bias, reinforces inequalities at work, school, the doctor's, and more.

At birth, our minds are like blank sponges ready to absorb new information. Then, as we grow up, we may start to let some of what we’ve learned mess with how we take on new information. This is known ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in medicine, like AI used in other fields, work by detecting patterns in large volumes of data. AI tools are able to detect these patterns because they can ...

Conducting a survey or a poll seems straightforward enough at first pass. Say, for example, you want to know the percentage of people in a population who like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. You ...