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One Practice That Can Help You Avoid Discriminatory Wording Is

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One practice that can help you avoid discriminatory wording is to avoid masculine and feminine words such as "policeman" and "waitress" when referring to a group that can include both genders.


Definitions:

Framing

A cognitive bias in which people react to a particular choice in different ways depending on how it is presented.

Concept

A mental category that is used to group objects, events, and characteristics.

Heuristic

A simple, efficient rule, whether hard-coded by evolutionary processes or learned, used to make decisions or solve problems.

Morphemes

The smallest grammatical units in a language that carry meaning.

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