What cut into my soul was that I have spent the past six years answering the phone to peers who call me in a crisis with similar workplace gender biased issues.
But the more they think about the bias issue, their answer is no.
"It's an appearance-of-bias issue," Mr. Long said in a telephone interview this afternoon, referring to Justice Thomas.
Attorney General Janet Reno said she was "troubled" by the apparent racial and geographic divide and called for a broader study of the "bias" issue by outside experts.
The publication-bias issue is even more pressing in the field of medicine, where it is estimated that the results of around half of all trials conducted are never published at all, because their results are negative.
"There's a social-bias issue here," said Dr. Eric C. Caine, co-director at the Center for the Study of Prevention of Suicide at the University of Rochester Medical Center, explaining why suicide in the middle years of life had not been extensively studied before.
In their settlement talks with Google, European regulators insist that the search bias issue must be addressed, even if the Federal Trade Commission chooses to back off that element of its antitrust pursuit of Google.
"That will probably cause it to drop on the radar screen of newsworthiness," Mr. Scheidegger said, and he suggested that the Supreme Court might now disregard the petitions before it on the bias issue.
The paired comparison is unable to address underlying bias issue.
Despite incremental improvements, the gender bias issue in Silicon Valley remains an important one — and one that could benefit from special attention.
