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    Hypothesis Testing Paper

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    Hypothesis Testing Paper Homelessness is an ever growing problem that the numbers seem to increase in severity in the larger cities. Chicago‚ Illinois has numbers that exceed more than 93‚000 individuals that are homeless and out of those there is close to 20‚000 that also suffer with a mental illness. In addressing the link between mental illness and homelessness it is clear that the numbers are large due to lack of medical care and the de-institutionalization from the 1960’s. In an attempt to

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    Racism and Contact Hypothesis

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    References: Allport‚ Gordon. 1954. The Nature of Prejudice‚ Cambridge‚ MA: Addison-Wesley. Amodio‚ David M.‚ and Patricia G. Devine. 2006. “Stereotyping and Evaluation in Implicit Race Bias: Evidence for Independent Constructs and Unique Effects on Behavior.” Journal of Personality Amodio‚ David‚ Patricia Devine‚ and Eddie Harmon-Jones. 2007. “Mechanisms for the Regulation of Intergroup Responses: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Approach

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    Media And Political Bias

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    opinions. Because of this‚ it is unfortunate that the media in the United States have an extreme bias on political topics. Being able to gather political information and facts about the government’s actions is critical in a democracy‚ however‚ our market based media system makes it difficult to find neutral sources which don’t cause distrust among liberal and conservative individuals. The political bias portrayed in our media system is represented by its use of agenda setting‚ technology‚ and marketing

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    What Is Confirmation Bias?

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    “Confirmation bias is a beast” (Tyler‚ 2016). There’s bias in the media‚ in education‚ in the environment and in law enforcement. Recognizing bias is inescapable. Bias is when we favor information that agrees with our hypothesis‚ even if proven wrong. “Confirmation bias contributes to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence” “Confirmation Bias”‚ (2017). There are philosophies of morality that are social practices of right and

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    ATHENIAN GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY ATHENIAN GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY Ever wonder where and how democracy began? According to an article entitled “Athenian Government Prior to Democracy”; ancient Athens is credited with having developed one of the first democracies on this earth (1). Blackwell states that the name democracy comes from “demos-people and kratos-power”‚ meaning “power of the people” (2). Mills states that Athenian democracy did not come about easy‚ yet it was through

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    Bias and Decision Making

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    decision maker may response differently with same problem. Why does this happen? Because of bias. Bias is a subjective ideas or thought. Sometimes it is injustice to receivers who got the outcome from the decision makers. There is a kind of division got from the internet: class‚ racism‚ culture‚ media‚gender‚linguistic‚ politice‚religion‚statistical number(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias Aug‚ 9 2008)‚ which is based on external environment around. Under circumstance‚ decision maker

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    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 in which they made money when assessing their

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    Leading Without Bias

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    higher your structure is to be‚ the deeper must be its foundation” Therefore if you wish to lead without bias you must hold yourself to a higher standard. On balance‚ Parmenides speaks about building upon a solid foundation as well when it comes to the subject of leading without bias. Parmenides answers the question‚ what is your perspective of the ability of educators to lead without bias? “You must learn all things‚ both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth‚ and the opinions of mortals in

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    Media Bias

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    On September 11‚ 2001‚ the citizens of the United States witnessed a horrific attack on two symbolic buildings in New York City. These tragic events have galvanized the creation and implementation of a myriad of prejudicial and unconstitutional policies designed to provide the illusion of national security while simultaneous creating more instability and animosity between the West and the Middle East. In the wake of 9/11‚ a multitude of Americans have been overtaken by hysteria and fear. These

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    Racial Bias

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    When our class visited Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall I felt as if this would be a hard assignment because I felt as if none of the artwork would catch my attention‚ seeing as I’ve never had an interest in artwork while growing up. This visit was really eye opening because not only did I enjoy the time we spent there‚ surprisingly I was actually interested in some of the work that was being displayed at that time. Although all the art exhibits were simply amazing the one that stood out the most

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