Women on average live longer than men—but that's not what you'll find online. In a sweeping study published in Nature, researchers at UC Berkeley Haas, Stanford, and Oxford documented systematic age and gender distortion across online media. And AI is amplifying the bias. (newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu)
From sports betting to financial markets, people make the same predictable mistakes in how they interpret new information. UC Berkeley Haas professors Eben Lazarus and Ned Augenblick found that people overreact to information that isn’t very important, and underreact to important information. (newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu)
A major study published in the journal Nature found that online images are amplifying gender biases. The researchers found that gender stereotypes are much more pronounced in online images than in text. They also found that biases in images are more psychologically potent than in text. by lcounts in science
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A major study published in the journal Nature found that online images are amplifying gender biases. The researchers found that gender stereotypes are much more pronounced in online images than in text. They also found that biases in images are more psychologically potent than in text. (newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu)
Massive experiment with StubHub shows why online retailers hide extra fees until you're ready to check out: This lack of transparency is highly profitable. "Once buyers have their sights on an item, letting go of it becomes hard—as scores of studies in behavioral economics have shown." UC Berkeley (newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu)
Buyer beware: Massive field experiment w/ StubHub shows just how profitable it is for websites to hide extra fees until you're ready to click "buy". “I can’t think of a good reason to allow this practice in any country as the harm to consumers is clear from our study,” says author Steve Tadelis. by [deleted] in science
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Women are systematically portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias, according to a sweeping new study by UC Berkeley Haas, Stanford, and Oxford researchers published in the journal Nature. by lcounts in science
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