The Basis of Bias
Imagine this scenario. A boss at a big company has to hire a new employee. There are two different resumes in front of them. The first one is for a young girl named Michelle and the other is for an older gentleman named Michael. That boss will do his best to pick the most experienced but bias will most likely come into play. If he has a bias against older people he will pick Michelle or if he has a bias against women he will chose Michael. There are many different types of bias. A positive bias or preference is the preference to eat vegetables instead of paper clips. A negative bias is when someone has a bias against a certain gender or race and mistreats them because of it. Biases against race and nationality, gender, and …show more content…
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research center has found that female workers make 80 cents for every one dollar a male worker makes. This is a gender wage gap of twenty percent.This is an outrageous statistic that helps prove of the bias against women in the workplace . Women have not been able to have the same privileges as a majority of men and have had to fight for basic rights They were not able to vote until August of 1920 and are still having to overcome stereotypes and challenges everyday. There are biases against men also but just like race the issue is more prominent against the minority. Society has been molded over the years to shape the belief that certain genders have to stay in certain roles in society. When you think of a cook or a homemaker a women is usually what is pictured while if you think of a mechanic or lumberjack a man comes to mind. This view is put into our minds from when we are little and told by advertising that certain toys are for boys or girls. This bias is seen all over the world in every country, religion, race, and nation from women being paid less than their male counterparts to the most extreme cases of women being stoned or killed for being a “harlot”. This is a bias that has taken many years to begin to overcome and there must still be steps taken to eliminate it once and for …show more content…
This bias has been seen the most recently out of all the other biases listed. Currently, Americans take their political party and views way too seriously. Most conservatives are perceived by liberals as bigoted, gun toting idiots who are stuck in the past while liberals are seen as pot smoking, go with the flow, philosophy majors who are trying to change everything that “made America great.” Both of these views are stereotypical and ignorant on both sides. The media does not help with this bias and if anything eggs this behavior on. It is almost impossible to find an independent media outlet that has no political bias for one side or the other because these are people writing these articles and not robots. People despite how hard they try, will be a little bias for what they believe in. Take a look at this excerpt from a Huffington Post article by Jon Hotchkiss called “Facts are Not A Liberal Bias,” “You see, in order for there to be bias, conservative commentators and Republican politicians have to assume there is in fact a correct answer to the questions they pose, a correct way to implement the policies they support... and that members of the liberal media misreport the facts or under report the facts and then replace them with information that supports their way of
Imagine this scenario. A boss at a big company has to hire a new employee. There are two different resumes in front of them. The first one is for a young girl named Michelle and the other is for an older gentleman named Michael. That boss will do his best to pick the most experienced but bias will most likely come into play. If he has a bias against older people he will pick Michelle or if he has a bias against women he will chose Michael. There are many different types of bias. A positive bias or preference is the preference to eat vegetables instead of paper clips. A negative bias is when someone has a bias against a certain gender or race and mistreats them because of it. Biases against race and nationality, gender, and …show more content…
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research center has found that female workers make 80 cents for every one dollar a male worker makes. This is a gender wage gap of twenty percent.This is an outrageous statistic that helps prove of the bias against women in the workplace . Women have not been able to have the same privileges as a majority of men and have had to fight for basic rights They were not able to vote until August of 1920 and are still having to overcome stereotypes and challenges everyday. There are biases against men also but just like race the issue is more prominent against the minority. Society has been molded over the years to shape the belief that certain genders have to stay in certain roles in society. When you think of a cook or a homemaker a women is usually what is pictured while if you think of a mechanic or lumberjack a man comes to mind. This view is put into our minds from when we are little and told by advertising that certain toys are for boys or girls. This bias is seen all over the world in every country, religion, race, and nation from women being paid less than their male counterparts to the most extreme cases of women being stoned or killed for being a “harlot”. This is a bias that has taken many years to begin to overcome and there must still be steps taken to eliminate it once and for …show more content…
This bias has been seen the most recently out of all the other biases listed. Currently, Americans take their political party and views way too seriously. Most conservatives are perceived by liberals as bigoted, gun toting idiots who are stuck in the past while liberals are seen as pot smoking, go with the flow, philosophy majors who are trying to change everything that “made America great.” Both of these views are stereotypical and ignorant on both sides. The media does not help with this bias and if anything eggs this behavior on. It is almost impossible to find an independent media outlet that has no political bias for one side or the other because these are people writing these articles and not robots. People despite how hard they try, will be a little bias for what they believe in. Take a look at this excerpt from a Huffington Post article by Jon Hotchkiss called “Facts are Not A Liberal Bias,” “You see, in order for there to be bias, conservative commentators and Republican politicians have to assume there is in fact a correct answer to the questions they pose, a correct way to implement the policies they support... and that members of the liberal media misreport the facts or under report the facts and then replace them with information that supports their way of