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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Grutter was a landmark decision on affirmative action in higher education: It was the first case in which a majority of the Court adopted a unified position holding affirmative action to be constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment." | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "Further, we contend that we need affirmative action now more than ever precisely because of today's increased demographic complexity." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Government contractors were compelled to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "To be sure, efforts to create equal opportunity and remediate past injustice through affirmative action have driven progress for Black Americans, who now occupy senior positions in many of our most prestigious and influential institutions -- including the courts, universities, and corporations." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "The affirmative action that colleges really needThe cases represent a standoff between those who insist that the college-admissions process should essentially be limited to quantitative metrics, such as grades and test scores, and those who believe grades and test scores should be one of many factors in the admissions equation -- along with leadership qualities, personal talents, race and ethnicity, and family circumstances." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Affirmative action must continue, potentially for generations to come -- because the invidious discrimination experienced by Black Americans over a three-century span has not been undone." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Six decades on, Americans remain divided over affirmative action." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "From the September 2021 issue: This is the end of affirmative action" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Mr Pelosi was confronted by the attacker who struck him with a hammer." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Police said that David DePape, 42, broke into Pelosi's San Francisco home at around 2am on Friday searching for House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wasn't home at the time." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "The article claimed without providing evidence that Mr Pelosi was drunk at the time of the assault and in a dispute with a male prostitute." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "In response to a tweet by former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on the attack, Mr Musk said that there is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
69% : Grutter was a landmark decision on affirmative action in higher education: It was the first case in which a majority of the Court adopted a unified position holding affirmative action to be constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.59% : Further, we contend that we need affirmative action now more than ever precisely because of today's increased demographic complexity.
57% : Government contractors were compelled to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."
57% :To be sure, efforts to create equal opportunity and remediate past injustice through affirmative action have driven progress for Black Americans, who now occupy senior positions in many of our most prestigious and influential institutions -- including the courts, universities, and corporations.
53% : The affirmative action that colleges really needThe cases represent a standoff between those who insist that the college-admissions process should essentially be limited to quantitative metrics, such as grades and test scores, and those who believe grades and test scores should be one of many factors in the admissions equation -- along with leadership qualities, personal talents, race and ethnicity, and family circumstances.
53% : Affirmative action must continue, potentially for generations to come -- because the invidious discrimination experienced by Black Americans over a three-century span has not been undone.
52% : Six decades on, Americans remain divided over affirmative action.
49% : From the September 2021 issue: This is the end of affirmative action
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.