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Men are "scientific," women are "lovely" and underrepresented minorites are "pleasant" and "nice." If those sound like stereotypes, they are. But they're also words commonly used to evaluate medical students, a study finds.
Analysis of nearly 88,000 evaluations of third-year medical students written from 2006 to 2015 revealed evidence of implicit bias. White women and underrepresented minority groups were more often described by words about their personalities, while men were evaluated with more words describing their competancy.
The results, published online April 16 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, give "a good idea of what kind of words are being used," says Carol Isaac, an education researcher at Mercer University in Atlanta not involved in the study.
Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/medical-student-evaluations-skewed-race-gender-biases
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:15PM (3 children)
I have no problem with his decisions, he probably survived longer with higher quality of life than he would have otherwise if he accepted injections of poison.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:32PM (2 children)
Also, wtf:
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/pancreatic-cancer/news/20110825/faq-steve-jobs-pancreatic-cancer#1 [webmd.com]
So he was getting all sorts of dangerous medical procedures... Also, if this started in 2003 and he survived til 2011 that is 96 months. Only about 50% of people under the age of 75 diagnosed with such tumors survive that long. see figure 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6426577/ [nih.gov]
So everything I've heard about this story before looking into it is fake news. I should not be surprised.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday May 07 2019, @02:55AM (1 child)
Well, there's also this.
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_purported_HIV_medical_status_results,_2008 [wikileaks.org]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @04:36AM
Interesting, so he was having all sorts of interactions with the medical industry. The headline story that he died because he was into all natural treatments is total fake news.