Department of Biology, Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Curr Biol. 2019 Jul 22;29(14):R666-R667. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.066.
Life scientists may think of themselves as liberal, but they seem to have a strong conservative bias that negatively impacts diversity in research. The bias can be revealed with a Google Scholar search; the phrase "conserved from [species X] to humans" occurs over 90,000 times, yet the reverse, "conserved from humans to [species X]" is found fewer than 1000 times (Figure 1A). I will explore why this conservative bias in direction exists in the literature and the implications that it has on our thinking and choices for research.
生命科学家可能认为自己是自由派，但他们似乎有一种强烈的保守偏见，这种偏见对研究的多样性产生了负面影响。这种偏见可以通过谷歌学术搜索来揭示；短语“从[物种 X]到人类保守”出现了超过 90000 次，而相反的短语“从人类到[物种 X]保守”则不到 1000 次（图 1A）。我将探讨为什么这种文献中的方向性保守偏见存在，以及它对我们的思维和研究选择所产生的影响。
