quite skilled in making the right decisions or making accurate estimates‚ and decide to just focus on that while disregarding those times where they had made the bad decision that ended in a poor outcomes they are said to have a form of “Confirmation Bias.” It refers to the moments where people choose to search for evidence that confirms prior beliefs‚ with an associated tendency to underweight any evidence to the contrary. “For example‚ those who frequently trade stocks may only remember the instances
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The Malala debate There is a groundswell of sympathy for Malala and also a strong demand for the Pakistani state to do something about the issue. Much of the discontent is directed toward the Pakistani Taliban‚ the extremist group that has claimed responsibility for the shooting and declared it has vowed to kill Malala if she recovers from her injuries. Also‚ it has issued fresh threats to another girl Hina Khan of Islamabad who is also known for her female rights activism and pro education stance
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Bias in Political Media Bias is defined as prejudice in favor of or against one thing‚ person‚ or group in a way considered to be unfair. Meet the Press is a weekly American news program known to be very non-bias. But with David Gregory‚ being his 5th consecutive year as moderator‚ I found that Gregory demonstrated bias during the Sunday episode of Meet the Press. The top stories this episode were the “Obamacare Rollout” and “Sticker Shock”. The Obamacare Rollout discusses how the
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Detecting Media Bias HUM/114 Detecting Media Bias 1. How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing the topic? Why do you think these strategies might be effective? I would find it challenging because the length of this article so I would start with the challenges of this article an then work on the next step which would be producing ideas. I would come up with questions to help understand the article such reasons as to why is the article
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The Bias of Roots and Culture Discussing roots and culture is often a very subjective topic. Quite often‚ the same story is interpreted entirely differently‚ depending on who is telling the story. This principle is also true in fictional works. A narrator will bring his/her own perspective and biases into the events that he or she is telling about. In Raymond Carver’s Cathedral‚ the first-person narrator has several biases that are used to reveal character. This first-person narrator has both
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affected by cognitive biases‚ “a cognitive bias refers to systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgement‚ whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion” (Wikipedia‚ 2016). In simpler terms cognitive biases are natural ways our brains work that causes distortions or errors in thought or judgement. There are multiple types of cognitive biases‚ three examples I have experienced are confirmation bias‚ representativeness heuristic‚ and the
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that all this time that I have been striving to be a good person‚ I have actually been judging them due to a part of my brain that I had no idea existed until now‚ it is called my “blindspot”. In the book Mahzarin and Anthony call a person’s hidden bias their “blindspot”. That is due to one thinking they are a good person‚ but in the blindspot of their brain they are actually judging each person by their weight‚ race‚ sex‚ and other characteristics that one may think of. At the very beginning of
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The article‚ Racial Bias‚ Even When We Have Good Intentions‚ written by Sendhil Mullainathan focuses on the racial bias African Americans experience compared to White Americans or any other racial group. In the article‚ Mullainathan refers to a study he conducted with a colleague. Mullainathan and his colleague mailed resumes to different jobs that had job openings‚ but they mailed some with “African American” names and some with “White American” names. At the conclusion of their studies‚ it was
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Although media bias is clearly seen in the news primarily serves as Goldberg’s main focal point‚ his argument certainly falls between both‚ his passion and animosity. Goldberg’s excessive emotional tone weakens the relevance to his case. In his introduction‚ Goldberg writes "…let me state without any fear whatsoever that I might be wrong: Anyone who writes a book to be vindictive is almost certainly insane…but my guess is it would be easier to give birth to triplets than write a book‚ especially
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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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