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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Bias and Corruption in the Media Maurice Darbey Sr. COM/156 May 20‚ 2012 Seitu Stephens Have you ever been watching the news and thought you weren’t being given all the details in the story? Or as if the reporter was deliberately reporting in a certain manner to stir up controversy? If so‚ do not think you are the only one who feels this way. Over the years many people have accused the new media of having bias in their reporting. Certain news networks have appeared to have some sort of
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Bringing Bias into the Light 1. In the first part of this article it talks about a strong woman named Jennifer Allyn and how she embraces her womanhood and breaks the stereotypical notion of women being houses wives. She got a degree from Harvard Kennedy School and has served as an HR consultant to Fortune 500 companies and is leading diversity efforts for PricewaterhouseCoppers LLP. She is doing very well for a “woman” but even with all her accomplishments Jennifer still associates women with families
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Cultural Bias in the Media By Daniel L. Wilson Peru State College Culture Bias in the Media Studying the trends in regards to portrayals of minorities in media‚ in television and programming in relation to the impact portrayals have on viewers ’ attitudes and beliefs‚ serves two main purposes: (1) it is important to understand the degree of how minorities are depicted so that changes‚ if needed‚ can occur; and (2) there is a need to determine if the portrayals of minorities on television
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Confirmation bias is a common bias among individuals. The textbook defines Confirmation bias as “ the tendency to notice and search for information that confirms one’s beliefs and to ignore information that dis-confirms one’s beliefs.” (Baumeister) Like many biases can be beneficial as well as detrimental to ones future. The textbook uses an example of someone who is told by a phychic that he will become a famous astrologer. He most likely had an interest in this topic‚ and quite possibly could have
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A partisan bias is when a person of a certain group shows a biased emotional allegiance to a particular group of people or ideas. “While an unbiased system yields identical electoral college votes for equivalent Republican and Democratic vote proportions‚ a biased
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