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‘White hat bias’ (WHB) (bias leading to distortion of information in the service of what may be perceived to be righteous ends) is documented through quantitative data and anecdotal evidence from the ...
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We focused on genes with two isoforms to more easily identify what features underlie the difference in estimated expression. Out of 5,716 transcripts from genes with two isoforms in which at least one ...
An astonishing number of things that scientists know about brains and behavior are based on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18 and 21. In other words, those ...
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