False Priors

Question 1

Agent detection

Answer 1

The inclination to presume the purposeful intervention of a sentient or intelligent agent.

Question 2

Automation bias

Answer 2

The tendency to depend excessively on automated systems which can lead to erroneous automated information overriding correct decisions.

Question 3

Gender bias

Answer 3

A widely held set of implicit biases that discriminate against a gender. For example, the assumption that women are less suited to jobs requiring high intellectual ability. Or the assumption that people or animals are male in the absence of any indicators of gender. Or the assumption that academia discriminates against women even as they outnumber men in college and graduate school in the US, and earn the majority of undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Question 4

Stereotyping

Answer 4

Expecting a member of a group to have certain characteristics without having actual information about that individual.

Question 5

False Priors

Answer 5

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