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    Leadersip Selection

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    Rahina Ishawu The Threshold of Democracy Dr.S 09/29 14 LEADERSHIP SELECTION My fellow Athenians We are all gathered here today to discuss an important topic concerning how magistrates and those in charge of executing the decisions of the Assembly are chosen. As of today my fellow Athenians‚ the people who make decisions for this great city are those who own land or equivalent properties. But as a radical democrat‚ I believe that selected individuals should not hold so much power to the detriments

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    1. How important are emotions to our purposes? Extremely important. If we had no emotion‚ then what is the reason to live‚ or do anything purposeful‚ if no sense of achievement‚ happiness has occurred. 2. Would we seek knowledge‚ or even be capable of knowledge‚ without purposefulness? In media programs‚ it has been hinted at the possibility of aliens who have no feeling‚ but have the purpose to conquer‚ or some other objective. As such‚ 3. How do our feelings affect our perceptions?

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    Recruitment and Selection

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    21.05.2013 IMPORTANCE IN RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION Executive Summary Bangladesh is the ninth largest country of the world as regards its population not for its area of land. It has almost 14 crore people. So the main thrust could be given on the development and management of human resources. In the country some large medium sized and a large number of business and industrial organization have been established and a significant number of human resources are employed in the organizations. Though

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    Sex Selection Essay

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    The Research Essay Project Ethical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences Dr. Sean Erwin Spring B 2012 Abstract Choosing the sex of your child is technically possible thanks to advances in fertility treatments that allow doctors to create or identify embryos of a certain sex based on this most accurate sex selection methods; usually the most expensive (10‚000.00) often involving invasive infertility treatments and fertility drugs with side effects. Sex determination and the selective

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    Implicit Racial Bias

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    In recent discussions of implicit racial bias‚ a controversial issue has been whether implicit racial bias is moral or immoral. On the one hand‚ some people argue that some people think implicit racial bias is moral and socially acceptable because those people with implicit racial bias are not directly hurting others. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that implicit racial bias is immoral‚ socially unacceptable and should not be tolerated under any circumstances. In the words of Daniel Kelly

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    Testing a Claim - Essay

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    Testing a Claim It is possible to test a claim using a confidence interval. The logic is very simple and straightforward. Assume we use StatCrunch to create a 95% confidence interval for the number of Facebook friends for Kaplan University MM207 students and find that the interval is between 75 friends and to 125 friends. Now‚ one of your classmates claims that the average number of Facebook friends is 150. Does this claim make sense in light of your confidence interval? No it does not. If a claim

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    Knowledge Acquisition

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    notion of `knowledge level ’ was introduced by Allen Newell more than a decade ago . Ever since it has provided a common perspective for researchers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in knowledge systems in particular. Its impact has been tremendous. Newell managed to make explicit what had become common practice in AI‚ namely talking about intelligent systems in a language of `knowing ’ and `wanting ’. Moreover‚ he gave this language a role in systems engineering by postulating the knowledge level

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    Example Of Cognitive Bias

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    A cognitive bias is described as the subconscious hindrances found in our own ways of thinking. An example of a cognitive bias is the "planning fallacy". Planning fallacy is when we are overly optimistic in the amount of time required to complete a task. I feel as if I run into this problem a lot in my own way of thinking. I am the type of person who likes to have a plan and to be organized‚ but in certain cases the time required for the completion of task longer than I anticipate. This underestimation

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    (1) Bias by commission which is‚ “a pattern of passing along assumptions or error that tend to support a left-wing or liberal view.” (2) Bias by omission which is “ignoring facts that tend to disprove liberal or left-wing claims‚ or that support conservative beliefs.” (3) Bias by story selection which is “a pattern of highlighting new stories that coincide with the agenda of the Left while ignoring stores that coincide with the agenda of the Right.” (4) Bias by placement which is

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    Bias Rhetorical Analysis

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    Assignment: Bias‚ Rhetorical Devices‚ and Argumentation The examples of bias are: The working man and the slum child are a gender bias. Kane is only pointing out that men are the only ones working and that all the children are slum. Kane makes a statement about “the decent‚ ordinary citizens know that I’ll do everything in my power to protect the underprivileged‚ the underpaid‚ and the underfed.” I feel this could be a begging the question fallacy; it is as if he is saying that the underprivileged

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