We have a tendency to draw inferences between people’s actions and their personalities. This is what’s known as a “correspondence bias‚ or attribution error.” These biases‚ or errors‚ occur when we automatically link what we view as “bad or inappropriate behaviors‚ with internal personality flaws‚ rather than taking into consideration possible external factors‚ such as environmental causes‚ that may account for the behavior in question. For example: when the clerk at Wal-Mart doesn’t smile while
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Cognitive Bias When I think of cognitive bias‚ I think about people making assumptions about others base on either what they have heard from other people or something they have experienced themselves. In order to figure out what biases I have I had to ask my wife. After some discussion we came to the conclusion that I have a couple of biases. The two that we came up with can be very controversial‚ religion and race. I wouldn’t say that I’m a religious freak or that I’m racist‚ I just have my own
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Detecting Media Bias Teresa Liles HUM/114 December 10‚ 2012 Christopher Page Detecting Media Bias Same-sex marriage has been an on-going battle for many years. California’s opposition to same-sex marriage‚ Proposition 8‚ barely passed in the 2008 election. Same-sex marriage has been a news-worthy topic since 1997 when Hawaii passed a Domestic Partnership policy which triggered other states to change policies as well. This issue started a state-to-state debate of whether same-sex couples should
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As a terminology‚ “Bias” is basically used as a word of judgment toward objects and people. In these short stories bias is served towards race‚ gender‚ and age; showing that discrimination towards the littlest things can change the perspective in someone’s eye. In the short story‚ ‘’Birthday party” racial bias is being told to us. The children’s Aunt May is in town for the summer and she went outside overheard the colored kid say “hey sis” towards Josephine but her aunt did not know that she and
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Identify examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech. Political bias: “With one purpose only: to point out and make public the dishonesty‚ the downright villainy‚ of Boss Jim W. Gettys’ political machine—now in complete control of the government of this State!” His opinion of this groups’ work is judgmental. Ad hominen: Kane attacking his Boss Jim Gettys’ political leadership as “the dishonest and downright villainy presented false hopes to the public. Scare tactic:
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EDU 5000 Gender Bias in the STEM Fields March 7‚ 2012 In a society that is heavily reliant on jobs related to math‚ science and technology‚ it is essential that women have the knowledge and background to compete in the global economy. An early foundation in these subject areas is vital‚ but why do girls avoid them at a young age? This paper will examine the gender gap in the STEM fields: Science‚ Technology‚ Engineering‚ and Math and the implications that society‚ parents
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Racial Bias in the SAT Abstract: Since the 1950’s the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has been an important assessment tool for college admissions to consider. Today the test is composed of three sections including math‚ reading‚ and writing. There is controversy surrounding the reliability and validity of the test as there is a large white-black scoring gap. The purpose of this paper is to prove the presence of a racial bias against blacks in the SATs. I will do this by talking about the history
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of those biases is called confirmation bias. According to the text‚ confirmation bias is defined as the tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices and to discount information that contradicts past judgements. In other words‚ individuals favor information that confirms previously existing beliefs or biases‚ despite attaining information that challenges the assumption(s). Moreover‚ individuals are more likely to agree with a confirmation bias when a person is strongly opinionated and/or
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Racial bias in the Media: Does news coverage favor Whites? Sharoniarina White COMM 215 September 27‚ 2012 News‚ movie‚ and crime often contain racial stereotypes. The news media has often criticized For the way it chooses to portray African-Americans. Racial stereotypes
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Address Correspondence to: Lashear C. Price‚ Department of Psychology‚ Cleveland State University‚ 2121 Euclid Ave‚ Cleveland‚ OH 44115. E- mail: lashear_07@yahoo.com Abstract In recent years‚ researchers have debated whether social bias exists between boys and girls regarding social skills and academic achievement. While most studies have shown that girls are more intelligent and experience fewer social problems than boys‚ the current study will hope to find otherwise. Many articles
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