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BREAKING NEWS: SC, ST, OBC Candidates Get Lower Marks in Interviews Despite Performing Well in Written: #Caste Discrimination in University of Hyderabad's PhD Admissions Revealed by RTI Filed by @asahcu @dpradhanbjp @EduMinOfIndia @ugc_india @NCSC_GoI @ahir_hansraj

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The Ambedkar Students' Association collated data from multiple RTI applications and found that students belonging to reserved categories are marked much lower in interviews than those in the general category despite similar marks in the entrance exam.
Some faculties have marked SC, ST, OBC candidates with zero marks, and in extreme cases, seven out of eight interview panelists awarded zero marks for an SC student.
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Formulating and appraising your PR (problem representation) is critical to the diagnostic process, and intrinsically welcomes cognitive bias

Work this case with me #MedTwitter

ED calls for admission: ā€œ40yo M w pneumoniaā€

*fist pump* sweet, easy admission

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ā€œFever, cough, dyspnea x2d. WBC 20, triggered sepsis. Got cx, fluids, abx. CXR RLL infiltrate. Needs admission for sepsis 2/2 CAPā€

With that PR, slam dunk pneumonia.

100% match for my CAP illness script, donā€™t even need my dyspnea schema (courtesy of @DxRxEdu @CPSolvers)
#CognitiveBias of premature closure
+
cognitive load of retaking a full hx on such an ā€œeasy admissionā€ 12hrs into call
=
Cutting corners in the name of ā€œefficiencyā€

So you confirm a preconceived HPI

Feverāœ…
Coughāœ…
Leukocytosisāœ…
CXR infiltrateāœ…

Community acquired PNAāœ…

2/
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"Humanity's shared destiny as a species is coming into ever greater focus through compounding crises and tremendous societal advances, yet our current institutional structures are struggling to meet the demands of this moment." --26th IEF Int'l Conference greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/daiā€¦
New technique can safely guide an autonomous robot through a highly uncertain environment
techxplore.com/news/2022-05-tā€¦
#AutonomousVehicles, #SpaceExploration, #TrajectoryPlanningSystem, #SafeLandings
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"Like all of us, love is a complex beast: only by embracing it in its entirety do we truly understand it, and ourselves. And this means understanding its evolutionary story, the good and the bad." -- Anna Machin greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/05/03/daiā€¦
A viral database is helping desperate Kenyans find fuel - Rest of World
restofworld.org/2022/a-viral-dā€¦
#KenyanStartup, #FuelSupplies, #FuelPrices, #CrowdsourcingData, #OpenSourceDatabase, #IkoWhere
The Great Resignation is becoming a ā€œgreat midlife crisisā€ - Vox
vox.com/recode/2304278ā€¦
#GreatResignation, #MidlifeCrisis, #EarlyRetirement, #GreatReshuffle, #recession, #inflation
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 03/18/2022 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/daiā€¦
Protein tweak makes CRISPR gene editing 4,000 times less error-prone
newatlas.com/science/crisprā€¦
#CRISPR, #GeneEditing, #Cas9Protein, #ErrorCorrection
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 01/16/2022 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/daiā€¦
What complexity science says about what makes a winning team | Aeon Essays

aeon.co/essays/what-coā€¦

#ComplexityScience, #WinningTeams, #AeonEssay
Our behaviour in bulk is more predictable than we like to imagine | Aeon Essays

aeon.co/essays/our-behā€¦

#HumanBehavior, #BehaviorPatterns, #predictability
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 12/21/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/daiā€¦
Organizationsā€™ system noise creates errors in decision making | McKinsey

mckinsey.com/business-functā€¦

#SystemNoise, #DecisionMaking, #CognitiveBias
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 11/30/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/daiā€¦
Manatee death rate spikes to highest number in nearly 50 years

fox13news.com/news/florida-rā€¦

#manatees #DeathRate
Brilliant GIF shows how Humans, Birds and Insects Breathe

zmescience.com/science/biologā€¦

#GraphicVisualization #breathing #animals
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 05/19/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/daiā€¦
Why The Vaccines are a Home Run Despite the Yankeesā€™ Outbreak

theinsight.org/p/why-the-vaccā€¦

#COVID19 #vaccines #infection
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 12/25/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/daiā€¦
The New Business of AI (and How Itā€™s Different From Traditional Software)

a16z.com/2020/02/16/theā€¦

#ArtificialIntelligence #BusinessModels #OrganizationStructures
Google tightens grip on research reports with 'sensitive topics' review system: Report

washingtonexaminer.com/news/google-tiā€¦

#PeerReview #ResearchReports #google #truth #transparency #trust
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1/ Cognitive Bias in Clinical Medicine

I love teaching #MedStudents about #CognitiveBias & #DiagnosticErrors & so thought I would create my debut #tweetorial on cognitive biases in clinical medicine šŸ§‘šŸ»ā€āš•ļøšŸ‘©šŸ½ā€āš•ļøšŸ‘ØšŸ¼ā€āš•ļø

šŸ¤”Now which bias that?!

#MedTwitter
2/ Intended Learning Outcomes

šŸ’”To recognise common cognitive biases in clinical medicine

šŸ’”To identify strategies to overcome them

#MedTwitter Ready? Letā€™s go!
3/ Cognitive Biases

šŸ’”Are cognitive shortcuts
šŸ’”Used to aid decision-making
šŸ’”AKA heuristics

āœ…Helpful time-savers
āŽRisk leading to diagnostic errors
āŽDiagnostic error rate in Australian #PrimaryCare is ~15%

qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/Supā€¦

Letā€™s look at common cognitive biases šŸ§
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