Reality Tv Persuasive Essay

Although Gerbner and Gross hired three third-party commercial survey research organizations to minimize biases in how the questioning was conducted (Gerbner, Living). However, additional biases could have potentially included a limited sampling size, a social desirability bias, and/or an acquiescence bias. With the personal nature of the study and the dependence on polling something as abstract as a perspective, there are many variables. With only having three surveys with a total of 2,010 participants, there was a limited sampling size. Based on the questions asked by the questionnaire, it could have also been very easy for participants to fall into the social desirability bias—exaggerating or downplaying their true thoughts or actions to meet the …show more content…
Reality television has been associated with the opportunity for viewers to peek into the lives of people who lead drastically different lives than themselves in which they can in many ways relate. It allows the viewer to vicariously live through the characters being portrayed and thus further blurring the lines between reality and television. Karyn Riddle and J.J. De Simone conducted a recent survey to determine if there was indeed a correlation but their emphasis was inconclusive and believed it was possible for viewers who viewed the world in such a way were naturally more likely to watch reality TV (Jacobs). In a similar study conducted by Dr. Kristin Barton, the relationship between reality tv and viewers’ perceptions of love and dating relationships as competition was investigated, but the data did not support a correlation (Barton, 93). Reality television is still being analyzed through cultivation theory to determine exactly what correlation, if any, are