Bias ratio

To properly analyze the long-term debt of Rite Aid, we must calculate various debt-related ratios. These ratios help find Rite Aid’s leverage and solvency. They also allow us to be able to compare Rite Aid to the industry average. Rite Aid’s ratios and the industry averages are shown on the next page in Figure 12. Looking at these ratios, the biggest concerns lie in the common-size debt, debt to assets, as well as long-term debt to equity. The company is doing very poorly in both categories.…

speaks. However, unbeknownst to the gun clerk the actual language is Persian. Regardless the judgement escalates and has the gun clerk assume the worse, that Farhad is a terrorist, causing him to kick him out the store. In this scene another attribution bias present is the fundamental attribution error. Fundamental attribution error is an emphasis on internal characteristics to explain an individual’s behavior instead of taking into consideration external factors. Farhad speaks his native…

When looking at the questions of motivation, one must look at all sides of those involved. There is a great tendency to misattribute the motivation of people, based on our own preconceptions. As written about in our primary text, the actor-observer bias causes us to attribute motivations of others to more dispositional reasons, whereas the other person usually sees them as situational (Petri and Govern, 2013). For my analysis of a current event in the context of attribution motivation, I have…

Effects of News Media Slavi Iordanoff HUM/186 08-07-2017 Allyson Wells Effects of News Media People look to various news media outlets for sources of information. Some sources are more reliable than others but how can you know which sources are credible and which ones are not? What kind of affect does the media have on American culture? Do people think that the media should be responsible with the information that they present? The media has become a staple in our society for delivering the…

America and the End of the World- Evaluation of Gross and Gilles’ Argument With today’s technological advancements, it has been made possible for the media to be a primary source for many Americans to receive information about current events happening in society, with a source that may be found trustworthy. The article, “How Apocalyptic Thinking Prevents Us from Taking Political Action,” by authors Matthew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles, focuses on the predicament that the media is taking…

INFO498 Final Case Studies Name:_Chris Harlan____ Instructions: Your essays will be graded on content to include grammar and spelling. Each case should take 1-2 pages including diagrams. The essay answers for both #2 and #3 should be 500 to 700 words each, in order to completely answer the questions. Please submit as one document. Assignment: #1. Forest Point Construction (System Planning) a. What is the correct total time? The correct total time for this project is 31 days. b.…

In the world of journalism, journalists must simultaneously entertain and convince their audience in order to stay relevant. To entertain, journalists must have a highly biased or controversial viewpoints on several subjects, and to appear credible, they must communicate with rhetorical strategies. For example, in 2008, the Great Recession damaged many Americans, which gives Anna Quindlen the right timing to write an essay with proper rhetorical strategies. In Anna Quindlen’s “Stuff Is Not…

Everyone knows how much power the press and advertising have in shaping the news, how its choice of stories and words influence its readers. What are the media? Do the media reflect the views and values of society or is being influenced by it? The term media can be defined as the whole form of mass communications, including newspaper, magazine, television, and internet. As states in her article, “Television has become a scapegoat for all sorts of societal and cultural ills. Critics blame…

The Destructiveness of Jealousy and Greediness What made Othello, written by William Shakespeare in the 17th century, popular is that the play dealt with sensible topics as racism and race. The protagonist of the play is a dark skinned foreigner, surrounded by white characters. Othello’s race makes him sensible for criticism of the people around him, because he knows that he will always be the weaker ‘species’. But what is shown in this play is that it is not his race that will be his downfall.…

By human nature we constantly make attributions regarding the cause of other people’s behavior as well as our own behavior. We may strive to be objective, but nevertheless, we are prone to perceptual errors, or attribution biases, based on our own expectations. Often our expectations are based on assumptions that we have made about people. The fundamental attribution error refers to when we over-emphasize the role of dispositional factors in explaining other people’s behavior while minimizing…