Prof. Ashton Schwarz September 13, 2014 An In-Depth Examination of Racial Disparity from Arrest to Incarceration The disparate number of minorities in prison populations is a concern for many who believe this disproportion is due to a systematic bias in the judicial system. While many factors may contribute to this overwhelming discrepancy, I contend that the disparate number of minority populations in prison is an accurate portrayal of how crime is committed in the United States. In order to
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Case Study 1: Prelude To A Medical Error 1. Background Statement My case study is over chapters 4 and 7. The title is Prelude to a Medical Error. In this case study, Mrs. Bee is an elderly woman who was hospitalized after a bad fall. After her morning physical therapy, Mrs. Bee felt she could not breathe. Mrs. Bee had experienced terrible spasms in her left calf the previous evening and notified Nurse Karing. Nurse Karing proceeded to order a STAT venous Doppler X-ray to rule out thrombosis.
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trust that the risky mortgages were good assets to invest into? And why did everyone involved allow the whole thing to go this far? The Analysis The Wall Street bankers ignored the fact that the mortgages were risky is mainly due to the confirmation bias, specifically, the Anchoring Heuristic. Bazerman and Moore’s (2009) defines the Anchoring Heuristic as “Individuals make estimates for values based upon an initial value (derived from past events, random assignment, or whatever information is
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With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge. “How do we know what we know?” That is the question epistemology rotates around, and the best way to describe what the theory of knowledge is. This question has been studied since the era of the ancient Greeks and still is being discussed today. As we dealt with this question in TOK class, I began to wonder how shared knowledge may shape my own and others’ personal knowledge. There
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question, one where the questioner has no preconceived ideas or predictions, has no vested interest in the answer, will accept whatever the answer, and will refrain from weighing the outcome in favor of a side. The questioner will avoid validation bias and refrain from seeking to weight the outcome of the review in favor of defined predictions or ideas. Neutral questions do not carry a hidden agenda and are impersonal open ended questions. With questions known as “leading questions”, however, the
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One way the appointment and confirmation process can be seen as wrong is the politicisation of the process by the President. Despite presidents always denying political consideration in the process it seems to underlie in the process of choosing Supreme Court justices. Presidents wish to choose a justice whose political and judicial philosophy reflects their own. It is often seen that a Republican president will pick a conservative candidate whereas a Democrat president will pick a more liberal candidate
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over time? The more consistent the behaviour is the more we are inclined to attribute it to internal factors. Errors and bias that distort attribution: Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgements about the behaviour of others. Self-serving bias: the tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external
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Methodology Section The proposed study assumes an approach adopted by Flynn, Sakakibira, Schroeder, Bates and Flyn (1990) on the way of conducting research. The process of research starts with the study design, followed by data collection techniques and their applications on the research consumers. These are followed by implementation and data analysis and discussion. The project would be organized into three phases. The first phase would entail conducting a field research to collect the data. The
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Epidemiology Study Summary 1. Write the purpose of your study along with 2-3 sentences elaborating on the problem and significance of the problem related to the purpose. You may use supporting evidence from other published work to explain or support the problem you are describing. The primary purpose of this study is to determine if long-term, direct exposure to agricultural pesticides results in a higher probability of developing lung cancer. “The widespread use of pesticides in the agricultural
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Lecture 5 Audit of the Sales and Collection Cycle Summary of the Audit Process Phase 1 Plan and design an audit approach 1. Accept client and perform initial planning 2. Understand client’s business and industry 3. Assess client business risk 4. Perform preliminary analytical procedures 5. Set materiality & assess acceptable audit risk and inherent risk 6. Understand internal control and assess control risk 7. Gather information to assess fraud risk 8. Develop overall audit plan and audit
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