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100 Words On….. Patching
By: Digitally Vicarious
Tags: Information Technology, 100 Words Project, Cybersecurity, Updates, Patch Management

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction. While I am an advocate for system hardening, it must be done bearing the context and business needs in mind. Simply applying the latest firmware and patches looks like a good idea in practice, but doing so blindly and without planning to understand the pros and cons can be more of a hindrance than a help. The same holds true for disabling and removing services, installing new tools and taking a draconian approach to policies. Sometimes you break more than you fix, ending up doing the hackers job for them.
100 Words On….. Actions
By: Digitally Vicarious
Tags: Information Technology, 100 Words Project, Cybersecurity, Awareness, Ignorance

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There are two crucial steps in achieving adequate cyber security. The first is moving from ignorance to awareness. The second is moving from awareness to action. Many would agree that getting the visibility we lack is critical, making the first step achievable through awareness activities, education, and readily-available tools. Unfortunately, achieving the second step can seem impossible when, despite having all the information before us, we fail to act, rendering the achievement of awareness moot. Knowing where you are does not guarantee knowing how to get where you need to be, but we must begin somewhere to eventually arrive there.
Trust in Online Medicine
By: Healthy Spacer
Tags: Medicine, Information Technology, Healthy Living, Health

Be Cautious, Not Straying Online

Here are listed the most popular adversary of valid information sources:

One of the most available sources is online forums, discussions on social media . To this category sources that are opened for editing (e.g., “Wikipedia”) also can be related.

. To this category sources that are opened for editing (e.g., “Wikipedia”) also can be related. Another source is advertising materials advice from which sometimes can be addressed to the mass audience invisibly, though they have to be moderated before publishing.

advice from which sometimes can be addressed to the mass audience invisibly, though they have to be moderated before publishing. In addition, publications without references are unfounded and are more likely to provide fake and unverified recommendations.

The named above sources can be truly obvious in terms of a lack of reliability. According to doctors’ opinions, clinicians are prone to expect worst-case scenarios as the published advice tend to delay actual treatment even in urgent situations, worse the current state and well-being, as well as violate privacy and jeopardize expertise in general (Benigeri & Pluye, 2003). Speaking precisely and taking forums as an example, it should be mentioned that more frequently they are organized by a group of users; some time is passing, and a community of people with common interests and alike stories is formed. Life experience, which can sometimes be embellished or completely falsified, becomes the basis a key to start or continue a virtual conversation. In the case of health, it can be fraught with the fact that people, especially in case of comparing themselves with others who have similar experiences or symptoms (Widyanto et al., 2011) and being motivated to find out answers to personal questions (Das & Faxvaag, 2014), will tend to use the same methods of treatment to cure, without taking into account the peculiarities of the body, its structure, and biological nature. In addition, expert or at the worst common-sense advice are rather rare met than tips and recommendations given by a word of mouth or rumor. Although people trust experts and their closed circle more (Fig. 1), there is no guarantee not to meet the discussed above web-services in online space and unconsciously become its active and trustful reader.

Fig. 1 Consumers’ trust in information sources-EU wide (source: Etienne et al., 2018)

The upgrowing trend of social media usage and their development divert people from traditional sources and approaches to health and cure. Although tracing linkages in online networks allows to find out the initial source, hardly every user will do that. Moreover, the absence of traditional hallmarks challenges network and social media scientists that is why a user is responsible for its personal information consumption (Westerman et al., 2014). Also, it should be remembered that the original source is also referred to something, and there is still a risk of a verification scarcity.
How to install ypbind on Centos 7
By: Linux Bubble
Tags: Website, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Linux

This blog focuses on installation of NIS (Network Information Service) along with is is’ most critical elements like installing ypbind on Centos 7.

NIS Introduction :

NIS is a protocol helps systems administrators to manage the entire user database from a centralized location in an automatic and reliable way, which in turns ensures that same naming service information is shared among all the clients in an consistent manner where they could distribute admin databases also known as maps, amongst a different kinds of server.

How to install ypbind on Centos 7

Unlike DNS which is used to simplify the server IP Address into human readable forms such as names, NIS is a service used to manage all the servers in the given network administratively by giving a centralized control over all of them just from a master and slave configuration over different but very important network information. NIS is also capable of storing information about users, groups and their permissions along with machine names and their IP Addresses. Some of the crucial information be like User Credentials and Permissions.

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Software Quality: Maintainability Foundation — Introduction (Part 1)
By: Anka Wirawan
Tags: Code Quality, Information Technology, Software Engineering

Maintainability is one of the non-functional quality characteristics of the ISO/IEC 25010 Software Product Quality standard and describes those aspects that are relevant for highly maintainable software.

The quality model is the cornerstone of a product quality evaluation system. The quality model determines which quality characteristics will be taken into account when evaluating the properties of a software product.

The quality of a system is the degree to which the system satisfies the stated and implied needs of its various stakeholders, and thus provides value. Those stakeholders’ needs (functionality, performance, security, maintainability, etc.) are precisely what is represented in the quality model, which categorizes the product quality into characteristics and sub-characteristics.

The product quality model defined in ISO/IEC 25010 comprises the eight quality characteristics shown in the following figure:
Famous Interview Questions from IT/CS Branch
By: Archit Pandita
Tags: Interview, Information Technology, Computer Science, Preparation, Tips

Here we discuss famous interview questions asked by interviewer to candidate.

General

Tell me about yourself. Explain your Projects/Internship in detail.

Operating System

What is deadlock and How to prevent it? What is mutex and Semaphore? What is Critical section and Synchronisation? What is Paging,Segmentation ? What do you mean by preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling and tell the algorithms under it ? What is multi programming,multitasking and multiprocessing? Difference between thread and process. What is Virtual Memory and Thrashing?

DBMS

What is Normalization and its types? Difference between DBMS and SQL? Basic SQL queries. Difference between Groupby and Having clause. Difference between DDL and DML. What is ACID in DBMS? Difference between Delete,drop and Truncate. Find Nth highest salary(Write SQL query) What is Indexing and its types. Explain different types of keys in DBMS. Difference between SQL and NoSQL.

Oops

what is oops? What is operator overloading and function overloading? Explain different pillars of oops and explain each with real life examples. Difference between early binding and late binding. What is a class and object? Define a constructor and Destructor? What is the difference between structure and a class? What is pure virtual function and virtual function. What is diamond problem.

Computer Networks

What are different layers in OSI model? What happens when you type a URL in the web browser? What is DHCP, how does it work? What are Routers,Switch,Bridges? Difference between classless and classful IP addressing. Difference between TCP and UDP. What is ProxyServer and Firewall?

Any puzzles will be asked refer geeksforgeeks for that and also prepare data structures and algorithms.

Prepare Well and ALL THE BEST.

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Tags: Id Scanner, Information Technology, Identity Verification, Business Solutions

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Scantek specialises in instant identity verification built on facial recognition technologies and identity documentation and card verification. Scantek solutions serve as a SaaS model and are designed to combat fraud, increase security and improve user and customer experience

So if you are looking for a technology partner that is committed to improving your operational efficiencies, adding a layer of security to your customer’s information and improving their overall experience with your business, then Scantek is the perfect solution for you; give us a call today!
Global AIOps market in 2025: An expected reality
Tags: Aiops, Artificial Intelligence, Aiops Platform, Information Technology, Aiops Market

Information is a popular expression nowadays. In the IT area, undertakings are regularly wandering and testing to discover best practices for their business. Investigation Insight figures that the worldwide AIOps Market is relied upon to develop at a CAGR of 43.7% during the period 2020 to 2025. The AIOps Market is assessed to be worth US$ 3127.44 million every 2025, ascending from US$ 510.12 million out of 2019.

AIOps consolidates computerized reasoning calculations and human mediation to give full perceivability into the exhibition of the IT frameworks. By and large, DevOps stresses an adjustment in culture and cycle. Artificial intelligence fueled DevOps in an IT environment can guarantee more prominent speed, better precision, consistency, dependability, and duplicates the number of conveyances made. AIOps can examine information about the current IT measures in the DevOps work process and concentrates on critical occasions identified with stoppages or blackouts, utilizing enormous information investigation and AI while additionally giving noteworthy and relevant insight.

According to an ongoing Harvard Business Review article, an ongoing worldwide study of CIOs from huge undertakings features why AIOps has become a basic part of overseeing present-day IT conditions:

Even after putting resources into 10 distinctive checking devices overall, IT groups have full recognizability into only 11% of their surroundings. Furthermore, regularly, the individuals who need admittance to these devices don’t have it. In a similar review, 70% of CIOs accept that mechanization might have spared their groups time spent on doing manual assignments when contrasted with just 19% of all repeatable IT measures which have been computerized. By utilizing AIOps to eliminate commotion and interruptions, it can empower IT, faculty, to zero in on fundamental issues as opposed to interruptions from superfluous alarms.

Aside from these, AIOps likewise permits distant joint effort and streamlines episode the executives, in this way, helping far off Ops groups (NetOps, SecOps, DevOps, BizOps, and ITOps) convey and work together successfully in virtual NOCs (network activities focuses). A portion of the AIOps merchant offer full-stack recognizability into the advanced insight (versatile, web, crash, ventures, channel), application to-organize observing just as help for cloud-local models. In the coming years, AIOps highlights are anticipated to reach out into the domain of online protection. At the point when this happens, one can anticipate AIOps to overcome any issues between IT activities and security tasks groups as well.
Dealing with Big Data
By: Evika Rachma Y.
Tags: Data Science, Information Technology, Big Data, It Paragon, Data

When we think of the word Big Data, will we think of large data sizes? But is Big Data only limited to large data? How much data can be called Big Data? Where do we get them? What benefits or impacts can we feel from Big Data? or What should we do with Big Data?

Big Data illustration by Reddit

Big Data is a term that expresses a large set of data, both structured and unstructured data. This data set has certain characteristics in size (volume), variety, and velocity. Every day we create a lot of data, this data can come from objects around us that can communicate with each other via networks such as the internet, we upload videos, photos, emails, and texts via the internet every day. We store and process our online activities in the form of data. So that the data continues to grow and form Big Data.

The way Big Data works begins with collecting data and creating a uniform format so that it can be analyzed at a later stage, managing data well and performing analysis by modeling data using machine learning and artificial intelligence so that analysis can be carried out in sequence to get lots of usable insights.

Why Big Data matter?

“Without big data, you are blind and deaf in the middle of a freeway.” — Geoffrey Moore

The data is converted into information that can help users gain a lot of insights for making strategic decisions in the company. Here are some of the benefits of processing Big Data well.

Optimizing Costs

Big Data is able to accommodate various forms of data from various sources. In addition, the ability to perform in-depth data processing and analysis through cutting-edge technology such as Hadoop can form new patterns that traditional analytical tools would find difficult to find. So, usually, this new pattern provides more efficiency to business processes. Either cutting the value chain or finding new target market groups at a lower cost. So that companies can use these costs optimally.

Increase business effectiveness & efficiency

Previously, effectiveness means reducing production time for a job with optimal quality results and increasing production results with optimal quality in one job. Big data has the ability to find the fastest way to generate more effective & efficient business flows so that consumers who have a high potential for “willingness to buy” will not be missed. It can all be detected earlier with big data. Big data allows us to do a thorough analysis.

Product development

With the ability to read the habits & patterns of users on the internet, we can use the information generated by big data to adjust products to market interests. The ability to display trends or increasing demand for an item in near real-time will benefit businesses.

What should we do?

Confused Man by Lightshot

Besides processing Big Data by analyzing the data yourself, here are some tips to help you manage big data to its full potential.
IT Governance: Top 10 Definitions
Tags: Governance, Process, Information Technology, Control, Definition

IT Governance

“The processes, policies, relationships, and mechanisms that ensure that information technology delivers business value while balancing risk and investment decisions. IT governance ensures accountability and provides rigor for managing IT capabilities in the context of a larger corporate governance framework.” (Evan Levy & Jill Dyché, “Customer Data Integration”, 2006)

“IT governance is the system and structure for defining policy and monitoring and controlling the policy implementation, and managing and coordinating the procedures and resources aimed at ensuring the efficient and effective execution of services.” (Anton Joha & Marijn Janssen, “The Strategic Determinants of Shared Services”, 2008)

“Structure of relationships and processes to direct and control the IT enterprise to achieve IT’s goals by adding value while balancing risk versus return over IT and its processes.” (IT Governance Institute, “IT Governance Implementation Guide, Using COBIT and Val IT”, 2010)

“The function of ensuring that the enterprise’s IT activities match and support the organization’s strategies and objectives. Governance is very often associated with budgeting, project management, and compliance activities.” (Bill Holtsnider & Brian D Jaffe, “IT Manager’s Handbook” 3rd Ed, 2012)

“Controls and process to improve the effectiveness of information technology; also, the primary way that stakeholders can ensure that investments in IT create business value and contribute toward meeting business objectives.” (Robert F Smallwood, “Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies, and Best Practices”, 2014)

“The framework of rules and practices by which an organization structures its technology decision-making process in order to ensure alignment of the organization’s business strategy with its operations.” (David K Pham, “From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap”, 2016)

“Set of methods and techniques for reaching full alignment between business strategy and IT strategy.” (Dalia S Vugec, “IT Strategic Grid: A Longitudinal Multiple Case Study”, 2019)

“The structures, processes, and mechanisms by which the current and future use of ICT is directed and controlled.” (Konstantinos Tsilionis & Yves Wautelet, “Aligning Strategic-Driven Governance of Business IT Services With Their Agile Development: A Conceptual Modeling-Based Approach”, 2021)

“IT governance (ITG) is defined as the processes that ensure the effective and efficient use of IT in enabling an organization to achieve its goals.” (Gartner)

“The system by which the current and future use of IT is directed and controlled, Corporate Governance of IT involves evaluating and directing the use of IT to support the organisation and monitoring this use to achieve plans.” (ISO/IEC 38500)
5 Best Hosting for WordPress
By: Engr Muhammadkashifaslam
Tags: WordPress, Website, Hosting Provider, Information Technology, Blog

WordPress is the world’s most popular CMS platform. The performance of WordPress site heavily relies on hosting. Any compromise in hosting could be suffering and hectic in the long run. It is because hosting provides a backup from malware and helps your blog run smoothly. So, it is necessary to choose a good web host for your WordPress site. There are a few factors that must be taken care of before opting for the host, such as;

Speed — or ‘Load Time

Uptime

Customer Support — they should help in case of any issue.

Following are the five most recommended web hosts based on their speed, uptime, overall performance, customer reviews, and reputation:

Bluehost

Bluehost is one of the most popular services. It provides hosting to over 2million sites. The best part is it offers a free domain for one year, making it easy to start. Also, it gives Automatic WordPress installation as well as automatic WordPress updates. Bluehost has been WordPress’s recommendation for 15 years. With all these, it has a 30-day money-back guarantee. It also provides:

free SSL certificate

Microsoft 365

$200 Marketing Credit

Hundreds of free WordPress themes

However, it does not offer free site transfer.

SiteGround

SiteGround is another popular website host since 2004. With great speed and customer support, it offers free WordPress installation as well as automatic WordPress updates. It is one of WordPress’s recommended hosts. It also gives:

Free SSL Certificate

30-day money-back guarantee

Free WordPress site transfers

However, it is more expensive than its competitors, and it does not give a free domain.

Hostgator

Another renowned web host is Hostgator. It hosts over 10 million sites. It enables quick WordPress installation and offers fast hosting with reliability. It also gives:

Free Domain

Free SSL Certificate

45-day money-back guarantee

However, it has a high renewal fee.

A2 Hosting

Another good hosting option is A2 Hosting. It gives hosting at a low cost. In this service, WordPress is pre-installed with A2 optimized. It also provides:

Free site transfer

Money-back guarantee

FreeSSL certificate

WordPress optimized servers

Fast Hosting

However, it has a high renewal fee.

In MOtion

In Motion is a reliable hosting provider with over 350,000 domains. It gives installed WordPress with excellent customer support. It also offers:

FreeSSL certificate

Free Domain

200 free WordPress themes

90-day money-back guarantee

However, it does not have instant activation for people outside the US. Also, it has average speed and uptime.
What is Object-Oriented Programming?
By: Cool Digital Solutions
Tags: Information Technology, Software Development, Software, Oop, Programming

Object-oriented programming is the transfer of the objects around us to the computer environment. For example, being able to monitor our household items with a computer and operating them remotely are examples of object-oriented programming.

What is the object?

They are components that contain methods that store, manage and process data. They can be used unchanged and only take up memory space.

Properties of Object-Oriented Programming

Object-oriented programming includes 4 distinct features:

Abstraction Encapsulation Inheritance Polymorphism

Abstraction: Since each object has its own class, defining the behaviors and properties in a class is abstraction. For example, there are certain classes of white appliances and there are special colors, features and models for these classes.

Encapsulation: Abstracted behaviors and properties are encapsulated by an object-oriented program. Together with the encapsulation feature, it is decided which feature or behavior will be presented or not. For example, personal data is encapsulated and the capsule is left open because it is used with object-oriented programming. The storage of this information is called encapsulation.

To read more, you can visit https://letsbecool.com/what-is-object-oriented-programming/.
Network Notlarım #2
By: Süleyman Kaya
Tags: Network, Computers, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Internet

Hello, I’m Süleyman Kaya! I’m a cybersecurity researcher and student. I’m 15 years old. I love to hack ≧◡≦
Web Design Essentials For Disabled Audience
By: Stack Mode
Tags: USA, Website, Web Design, Information Technology, Web Development

Web Design Essentials For Disabled Audience

Having a flawless business website is one of the crucial things these days in order to survive in the competitive market. The specialists for web design services in Reno focus on the following design essentials in order to build an impeccable website for the disabled audience:

Support Screen Readers

Screen readers are programs that let visually impaired or blind audience to read and identify with content. It is a total must for a fully accessible business website. This signifies that you not simply are required to have alt text for every image, but even that every interactive element and section must be obviously and let the audience know precisely why they are there and their function.

Turn Away From Automatic Media

Do you find it irritating when you get on a webpage and media begins to play automatically? Now visualize what that is like for somebody with a disability? It turns out to be a genuine concern. It is particularly if they were not looking forward to it because they can become perplexed by an unexpected sound.

The experts of every reputed web design agency in Reno always avoid doing this. As an alternative, always prompt them prior to playing any sort of media.

Test Everything

At last, testing everything thoroughly is the sole approach to recognize if the website is really accessible for every user. For instance:

Load it on a mobile browser

Navigate and interact with it by just using the keyword

Use it with a screen reader

Zoom in and out to notice the way everything is rendered

Remember, accessibility extends past a website and into other channels such as mobile apps owned by a brand. Make sure you hire professionals of Stack Mode, a leading Web Design Company in Nevada, to ensure you have everything covered appropriately.
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Tags: Computer Repair, Computers, Information Technology, Slowcomputer, Slow Computer Support

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Top Ten technology
Tags: Information Technology, Technology News, Tech, Technology, Technical Analysis

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CIA Triad: What is it and how does it tie into infosec?
By: Kevin Lorenz
Tags: Information Technology, Infosec, Cybersecurity, Technology, Cia Triad

The Triad.

In terms of information security, the broadness of the topic itself has very few boundaries. That being said, there are a thousand ways to catch a mouse. However, after years of a problem reoccurring and costing people time and money, someone always comes up with “the mousetrap.”

Information security is way different than the direct act of catching a mouse, but like anything, there are foundations and fundamentals in place that ensure a higher success rate. The CIA Triad is composed of three things: confidentiality, integrity and availability. This triad should be at the forefront of any organizations security infrastructure and should function as objectives for every security program.

Confidentiality is an organizations act of keeping their information private. Organizations can only allow certain information to be seen by certain individuals within the organization so this act itself has a lot to do with preventing unauthorized access in general. For example, if a company is dealing with financing, they are likely to have a lot of social security numbers among other potentially detrimental information to let into the wrong hands. Only the client themselves and context-specific employees should be able to read a social security number so part of this company’s security plan regarding confidentiality would involve this.

Integrity is simple. The sensitive information that a company holds must not be altered in any way so that when the right person receives it, they can use it properly. It must be correct, reliable and authentic. Picture if a major bank had someone tampering with balances. As nice as it would be to have a few extra 0s added to my balance, it is easy to see how this could be a headache for the bank itself and its employees. It could even be an issue that stems further into other peoples worlds. Imagine the merchants where people used the phony balances to buy things they wouldn’t be able to beforehand. I’m sure the banks would do everything to recoup that cash — probably easier to have a strong integrity focus in your security camp.

Availability means that networks, systems, and applications are up and running effectively. It ensures that authorized users have timely access to resources when needed. Can you imagine working at a restaurant right now with the digital menus and the wi-fi goes out? It sounds ridiculous to think about a restaurant in regards to cyber security, but if customers cant readily access a menu, its going to be tough to keep the lights on.
Thank you for introducing another great platform which can extend our writing.
By: Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Tags: Writing, Collaboration, Self Improvement, Information Technology, Social Media

When Dr. Mehmet makes a suggestion, you listen. You heed it. You do it.

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Automating Labs with DevOps Tools (+ Github)
Tags: DevOps, Information Technology, Infrastructure As Code, Automation, Windows

TLDR: We set up a small windows lab with Vagrant.

In the last article we spoke about Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices to simplify the creation of virtual machines and automate the provisioning process. In this article we’ll actually get our hands dirty and create a test environment using Vagrant, Ansible, and VirtualBox.

So the first thing we need to do is download the required software:

https://www.vagrantup.com/

https://www.virtualbox.org/

(Insert your favorite text editor here; I’ll be using Atom)

Installing Vagrant isn’t too difficult, just follow the wizard and it’ll add it to your path by default. Same goes for VirtualBox, it should all work right out of the box.
Quantas linguagens de programação você sabe?
By: Michel Oliveira
Tags: Linguagem De Programação, Sistemas, Information Technology, Programação, Mercado De Trabalho

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Nothing Makes Sense Today
By: Tatiana Santana
Tags: News, Information Technology, Confusion, Trust, Technology

Now Is The Best Time To Get Informed

As far as technology, medicine, and the general world, you have it all at the disposal of your fingertips. The world's most important information is all in one space and it is the easier to get your hands on it than it has ever been. The internet is a place full of information, from many different points of view, available at any given time of day. By using the internet you can see local happenings, view the news nationwide, and connect with any close or distant family member that has social media. Going on the internet and typing in anything can give you answers to any question, and fact-checking the information with other resources on the internet is the best way to become informed on any topic.
Information Technology
Tags: Sri Lanka, Information Technology, It

Mathematical and reasoning skills are no longer a human thing. It is becoming the responsibility of the information age to mechanically disperse around life. — Pubudu Siriwansa
Let’s Talk About Bias
By: Julia Fustini
Tags: Historical, History, Bias, History Of Culture

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Bias. Bias drives a lot of things you don’t expect. So let's get to understand it. Bias affects your day-to-day life, how you view others, and even history.

I suppose firstly we should speak about the technical side of bias, what it is and what different types there are. Bias, according to dictionary.com is defined as, the particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned. Or as, unreasonably hostile feelings or opinions about a social group; prejudice. There are other definitions but for the sake of this article, this is all we need to be aware of. The first definition tells us about how bias can affect your day-to-day life, this is mostly about the world around you and how you react to it. The second definition can be used more towards racial bias and things like that.

Bias is a different beast for every single person now and days, we have a very diverse world and our countries can hold very different beliefs. I live in the United States, so we have vast beliefs whether political or theological.

History, which this article will focus on, is full of bias. American history is notorious for being written by racists. On my page, I will go from early history, and to the best of my ability, describe the events without keeping those who fought for justice and peace in the dark. People of many skin tones and ethnicities were involved and don’t get their stories told. I hope these stories allow you all to get a broader view of history. I will give a preliminary article on subjects that go over the timeline and lists most of the players in that event. Then I will pick 2–3 people from the event to cover in more detail. Please keep in mind all my information comes from the internet, so if I write something that is only mentioned in a few sources I will put It in parenthesis that it may be conjecture. I hope this helps someone!
How to Fight Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
By: Erik Simins
Tags: Startup, Workwolf, Workplace Culture, Bias

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As we are aware of the anti-police brutality protests in the U.S., people from all over the world have started their own conversations about racism online, at home, and in their workplaces.

Companies have begun to speak out about their own culture, how they may have failed BIPOC employees in the past, and what changes they can make to improve working conditions for BIPOC employees in the future.

I am from Canada, a very liberal and accepting country, but even still, I grew up surrounded by racism and seemingly normalized biased behaviours.

Why are racial generalizations typical in a society?

These generalizations are embedded deep inside our subconscious. No matter who you are and where you grew up — you have unconscious biases.

Unconscious bias refers to a prejudice in favour or against a thing, person, or group as compared to another, without factual evidence.

As human beings with conscious awareness, we will never achieve our full potential until we recognize there is a divide. By removing barriers like unconscious bias from the recruitment process, businesses can acquire better success rates by hiring the best talent.

According to a McKinsey & Company report from 2015, “companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35 per cent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians”.

With diversity comes different opinions, ideas, and worldviews. A diverse team can offer your company better insights into your customer base, your client, and your company’s future.

However, Research from Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University, suggests despite diversity being a proven benefit to a company, it can be challenging to implement a strategy to diversify your workplace.

As a country focused on diversity and inclusion, we have to look at new ways to solve these issues. We need to connect the most qualified candidates to job opportunities best suited for their skills, expertise, and education.

With more and more candidates entering the job market and the number of applications per job post rising, there is more competition than ever before. Workwolf makes it easier for you to find qualified candidates without personal bias.

Removing bias in your hiring process is a must to acquire candidates who will bring you the most success in your company’s endeavours.

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Admit it — You are biased?. So are you? Well if you have taken the…
Tags: Unconscious Bias, Bias, Misinformation, Fake News

So are you? Well if you have taken the time to open this blog then I suggest that you do go ahead and sign up for this very short course (only 24 mins) via LinkedIn Learning.

The Instructor Stacey Gordon takes us through some of the definitions and explanations of bias and what they mean and how we could try and keep a check on them.

Unconscious Bias — attitudes or stereotypes that affect our views, our actions and our decision-making ability.

Stacey makes some valid points when she says that everyone is biased. But the issues aggravates when some people feel like they are being attacked. There is a mention of a very useful site called “Project Implicit”, which aims to educate the public about hidden biases. They have a series of tests one can do eg: do u prefer thin or fat people, distinguish India from Pakistan, etc.

From here, choose the country you are in. For me, it was India and you will see a page like the one below.

Here, you can take a series of tests based on images, etc that will test you for how biased you are. It’s worth taking and understanding where you are and then working on the parts you need to improve.

We are also told about certain bias like ‘Affinity’, which is warming upto people like us or “Perception Bias”, where we believe that a person may be excellent because he comes from a particular school or college. Such biases are an issue as we may tend to unconsciously favour them if we also come from the same place or are in awe of them.

I pursued this course as I was keen to understand why we share certain information online. As a Fake News Debunker, spread of fake news has a lot to do with our inherent bias that we have. This has been seen as so many pics, videos go viral because it tends to stimulate or agree with our inherent bias.

I’m hoping that I can take some part from this course and use it with my existing media trainings and bring some light on this topic. Since this is a short course, it won’t take much time.

Do let me know if you take this course or have some ideas or just want to chat about the menace misinformation is causing. Happy to get on a call.
The missing bullet holes: a lesson in team science rather than survivorship bias
By: Jason Roy
Tags: Statistics, Survivorship Bias, Bias

During the second world war, the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Britain proposed to provide the troops with body armor made of manganese steel plates. Given the cost and weight of the armor, a major question was what parts of the body are most important to protect.

They conducted a study. They interviewed 20 individuals who had been shot in the line of duty. Data were collected on the location of the bullet wounds. They are marked on the diagram below.

location of bullet wounds from 20 individuals in WWII

The MRC noticed that the arms and legs were where most of the bullet wounds were and proposed providing armor over those areas.

However, when a statistician saw this diagram, they disagreed. They said armor should cover the abdomen, chest, neck, and head. They reasoned that you should protect the areas where the bullets are not. The data came from people who survived getting shot. It stands to reason that the areas that we do not see bullet holes were in places that people did not survive.
12 Micro Days of Christmas
By: Brooke S. Sinclair
Tags: Capitalism, Bias, Diversity, Silicon Valley, Equality

12 Micro Days of Christmas

A bias is a preconceived notion and this Christmas we want to challenge your preconceived notions about microaggressions. Why? Because this Christmas we’re going to give the people in your life the gift they’ve always wanted but never knew how to ask for…peace of mind.

Remember when the holiday spirit used to mean something? I do! I remember The Flintstones Fruity Pebbles commercial, “Tis the season to be caring, Fred!” Endless loops of A Wonderful Life teaching us that what we think we want out of life is not nearly as important as the individuals we need standing right in front of us, in plain sight. Whether it’s the spirit of inclusion through animation like in A Charlie Brown Christmas, the spirit of acceptance through claymation like in Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, or reminiscing through the regrets of life like in A Christmas Story the idea of the “holiday spirit” used to mean something to us! We want to get back to that. We want to bring back that good ‘ol fashioned Christmas spirit in 12 Micro Days of Christmas.

2020 has been an incredible year of recognition for the descendants of slaves around the world. An important year especially considering the life-changing events surrounding the deaths of George Floyd, Brionna Taylor, and Ahmaud Abrey.

After the amazing outpour of support for Black Lives Matter this summer, we wanted to think of a special way to keep the Christmas spirit and spirit of unity alive through the winter holiday season. To keep the spirit of justice alive we are challenging individuals to not fall back into their old, comfortable habits of discrimination and privilege.

For 12 days you’ll watch a hilarious video and learn a quick tidbit about microaggressions. How to recognize microaggressions, how to prevent them, and the nuances of being empathetic. The Bias Rehab Center focuses on microaggressions during the month of December with the 12 Micro Days of Christmas Challenge.

Join the 12 Micro Days of Christmas Challenge today! It’s free to join and it’s a fun way to challenge your preconceived notions and make the world a better place. Challenge yourself to rehabilitate your notions about microaggressions. The Bias Rehab Center is the systemic bias defeating programming for self and institutional enlightenment. A systemic solution to systemic racism.

​A bias is a preconceived notion and the objective of the Bias Rehab Center is to rehabilitate one’s preconceived notions. Each program is facilitated by experienced professionals with a range of higher degrees from a Bachelors’s to a Doctorate degree, national certification, or clinically licensed professionals from places like Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, George Mason University, and more.
Unbiased?
Tags: Racism, Bias, Social Justice Education, Culture, Social Justice

Get real…if you grew up in a culture…you’re biased. That’s not necessarily “bad”, but it is true.

Take an implicit bias test. Maybe you’ll get to know yourself a little better.

If you think you’re only influenced by what you’re aware of in your consciousness…well…you’re wrong.

“Consider this: Less than 15% of American men are over six foot tall, yet almost 60% of corporate CEOs are over six foot tall.

Less than 4% of American men are over six foot, two inches tall, yet more than 36% of corporate CEOs are over six foot, two inches tall. 1

Why does this happen? Clearly corporate boards of directors do not, when conducting CEO searches send out a message to “get us a tall guy,” and yet the numbers speak for themselves. In fact, when corrected for age and gender, an inch of height is worth approximately $789 per year in salary! 2 Your decision making and thinking is influenced by more factors than what is in your conscious awareness.

The influence of height on selection is true for Generals and Admirals in the Military, and even for Presidents of the United States.” source

Our culture encourages us to believe that what we think and are aware of accounts for our decisions and our behavior (even though many studies dis-confirm this)…notice that this belief helps hegemony operate without challenge or scrutiny.

In other words, if you don’t notice something or don’t have the words or concepts or believe it doesn’t exist then the likelihood is reduced that you’ll spend time noticing it and/or trying to think about it and/or comprehend it. Then it gets to keep on keeping on, bias gets to continue influencing without interference (or even recognition of its operations).

We’re biased by phenomena out of our conscious awareness and all the while we deny being biased or influenced. We experience ourselves as “objective” (an erroneous western (and other cultures too) conceit). We may want to be objective but it’s impossible to be so if you’re a living being. Not that countermeasures can’t reduce and/or manage bias…but anytime someone tells you they are “unbiased”…be cautious…it’s highly unlikely to be accurate (and that doesn’t necessarily mean they are trying to deceive you…they may buy the cultural message that they are in total control of their thinkings…which means they are naive…but that’s another issue).

Bias…if you grew up in a culture…you have biases. Your culture will influence what those biases might be and if you grew up in the U.S. it is highly unlikely you possess no racial biases (in case you didn’t know it, we (the U.S.) is a highly “racialized” society and your assigned racial grouping (gender too) has a significant influence on your life experiences and opportunities).

Go take the test or take more than one of the tests…get to know yourself a little better.
What Exactly is The “Mainstream Media”?
By: Megan Mcgibney
Tags: Media Literacy, Bias, News Media, Cable News, Mainstream Media

Which is Which?

Complaints about the news media* are common these days (henceforth known as the media, as commonly called). To be precise, the complaints are often geared towards the MSM — mainstream media.

Apparently, the term “mainstream media” refers to left-leaning news organizations, usually CNN and MSNBC. But does that really mean that those news organizations are mainstream? Especially given the ratings FOX News gets?

Back to the old dictionary we go…(I know I may seem snooty here by work digging up the dictionary, but language and words have deep roots).

So…

If CNN and MSNBC are highly influential in reporting the news, and therefore, in charge of the of current attitudes and thought, then why are there so many Americans leaning towards the right, and are regular watchers of FOX News? It should be noted that those who complain about the mainstream media, also boast about FOX’s high ratings. Yes, FOX is the most-watched cable news network and has been for a long time. So, if that is the case, how is FOX not mainstream? How is FOX not being a source of influence of thoughts and attitudes, as something that is mainstream would be do?

One could also consider the popularity of right-leaning news websites such as The Blaze, Breitbart, and even the cable TV station, OANN (One America News Network). Are they not mainstream too?

Given how divided and polarized the United States is, it is kind of difficult to pinpoint which news source is mainstream and which one is not. You can say all news organizations are mainstream, since they have wide influence over their loyal audiences.

Also, to call the other side of the aisle, or the other side of the news media, “mainstream” is of course, meant to be a put-down. When someone is leans to the right complains about the mainstream media — that would be CNN or MSNBC — it is really meant to say that they are different from the left; “owning the libs” if you will. By saying they are not the mainstream, they are saying they are very different and not cool or popular enough with the rest of society.

But if FOX News has the highest cable ratings, and Breitbart and The Blaze are frequently visited by millions, and so many Americans voted for Trump in 2016, and will do so again later this year, who really is mainstream now? And is their news source mainstream or not?

Just one of the many things to ponder, and to reflect as the United States gets more and more divided.

This post was originally posted on my Substack newsletter, Our Equilibrium, back in late August.