Seat bias is a property describing methods of apportionment. These are methods used to allocate seats in a parliament among federal states or among political parties. A method is biased if it systematically favors small parties over large parties, or vice versa. There are various ways to compute the bias of apportionment methods. When the agents are federal states, it is particularly important to avoid bias between large states and small states. There are several ways to measure this bias formally. (Wikipedia).
Everybody knows what happens in an accident if you don’t wear a seatbelt. What you see in this accident looks really painful in slow motion. Modern seatbelts are not just mechanisms which arrest your motion; rather. they cleverly allow enough movement to minimise internal injuries and help
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I guess this is what happens when you don't put anything up to keep the shopping carts from falling out of the truck.
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Crash test with and without safety belt
See a head on crash test with and without a safety belt and airbags. Video credit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
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Stanford Seminar - Partisan Gerrymandering and the Supreme Court: The Role of Social Science
EE380: Computer Systems Colloquium Seminar Partisan Gerrymandering and the Supreme Court: The Role of Social Science Speaker: Eric McGhee, Public Policy Institute The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case this term, Gill v Whitford, that might lead to the first constitutional constrai
From playlist Stanford EE380-Colloquium on Computer Systems - Seminar Series
I quickly built a game controller to test the idea of generated game inputs from the player's posture (shift in center-of-gravity). This controller is built from a digital bathroom scale and an XBox 360 controller. I used an opamp to convert the bathroom scale's sensor input to a thumbstic
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How does the Steering Wheel automatically returns to its center?
You might have noticed that after making a turn, when you release the steering wheel it will automatically return to the central position. You will be amazed to find out that this steering wheel returnability is not achieved by any complicated mechanism using springs or valves, instead, en
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Overweight and obese patients frequently feel stigmatized in health care settings, and face stereotypes and prejudice from health care providers. These stigmatizing experiences (also called 'weight bias') jeopardize patients' emotional and physical health. The Rudd Center for Food Policy
From playlist Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University
Seating in a 15 Passenger Ford Transit Van/Wagon: Details and Removing Rear Seats
This video shows details of the seats in a Ford Transit passenger van. We show which seats are child car set friendly, which recline, etc. In the second half of the video we show how to remove all the rear seats to effectively turn this passenger van into a cargo van. Topics and timesta
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Picking Sides? How Journalists Cover Bias, Intolerance and Injustice
As issues of bigotry and prejudice rise to the fore, many journalists must navigate issues of personal identity while accurately informing the public about on these issues. This class will feature an in-depth discussion with a noted journalist of color and a panel discussion with a broader
From playlist Journalism Under Siege: Truth and Trust in a Time of Turmoil, Fall 2018
Londa Schiebinger: Why does gender matter?
Read the full story: https://stanford.io/2F6P9z5 From designing research to setting priorities for funding decisions and drafting policy, understanding gender differences enhances all phases of scientific research. In safety engineering, ergonomic differences between men and women are i
From playlist The Future of Everything
How To Solve Bloomberg's Random Seating Interview Question
If 5 people (A, B, C, D, E) are randomly seated at a circular table, what is the probability A and B will be seated next to each other? What if they are seated in a row instead? And what is the answer, for both cases (circular and row), if there are n people? (Seated randomly means the un
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Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness: Midday Mindfulness: Arizona State University (ASU)
Are you looking for community and connection? ASU’s Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience is hosting online mindfulness and meditation sessions from noon to 1 p.m. (AZ time) each weekday. Today we focus on the mindset for mindfulness. We hope these midday sessions offer you a c
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Why it is (still) difficult to be a woman in science by Shobhana Narasimhan
Seminar Why it is (still) difficult to be a woman in science Speaker: Shobhana Narasimhan (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) Date: Wed, 26 February 2020, 14:30 to 16:00 Venue: Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Campus, Bangalore Abstract In India, as everyw
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Spinning ring puts surprising twist on familiar physics
Differences in drag cause the ring to switch directions as it wobbles around. Read more http://scim.ag/1FJbRe3
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SUBJECTIVE Probability Distributions (8-11)
Subjective probabilities for each outcome are assigned based on experience and judgment. But because our estimation of probability is based on subjective factors, subjective probability estimates are subject to biases in our thinking, such as the Availability heuristic (estimating probabil
From playlist Basic Probability in Statistics (WK 8 - QBA 237)