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Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial

...analysis. Through presenting expert testimony, biased conclusions could end up influencing the jury. [A graphic showing a pyramid shape representing the sources of juror bias in criminal trials.] The biases that expert decision makers are subject to, from case-specific information to the effects of human and cognitive factors on their choices. Itiel Dror, Author provided...
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Opening the wardrobe
Money & Business

Opening the wardrobe

...data with others’ and an opportunity to reflect on your clothing ownership and use. The event will also feature a discussion forum and blog posts from academics, practitioners and other sustainability experts. The hope is to discover how understanding more about clothing ownership can provide clues about how this behaviour can be changed. *correct at time of publication...
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Secret or sharing? Play our Privacy Game
Digital & Computing

Secret or sharing? Play our Privacy Game

...data - safely...[ministry of sharing promo image] New and updated for 2015: play our latest game The Ministry of Sharing to find out - are you a safe sharer? Are you the bee's knees when it comes to sharing the most interesting stuff on the web, or do you make people cringe when they see your posts on their Facebook newsfeed? Watch the Ministry's snappy public service...
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Darwin's world-wide web
Science, Maths & Technology

Darwin's world-wide web

...data for his work? What do his surviving letters reveal about him, both as a man and as a scientist? He often seems like a solitary figure, but was this really the case? This album looks at the Darwin Correspondence project, an enormous endeavour that has been running for over thirty years. Today the project web site contains over five thousand letters, and there are...
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Starting with Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with Maths

...data helps them understanding what's going on with the Sussex River Ouse. Student views on the OU OU students talking about the benefits to them of studying with the OU Finding space and time for studying OU students talking about how they found the space and time to study, and what has kept them motivated. The tutor experience OU Students talking about the experiences...
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Audio 52 mins
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...analysis of the project definition documentation, for example in a work breakdown structure. Understanding of the work tasks to be completed will be the basis for assigning responsibilities according to competencies. The elements of the tasks can be mapped to project participant roles using a responsibility matrix, also known as a linear assignment matrix. Thus, given the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...data scientist and a grad student at MIT, and, like most people in his demographic, he uses Facebook. But Sands took an unplanned break from the platform this summer when Facebook sent him an automated message formally requesting that he verify his name with the company, or risk having his account suspended. Indeed, Facebook requires people to display their “real”...
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Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...data is so essential to their operations, Binney has a simple answer - power, control and money. Eric King puts to him that the military industrial complex is perhaps not so well established in the UK as the US, so it seems reasonable to ask why GCHQ would be so insistent about the importance of their continuance of bulk communications data collection and retention for...
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