Bias ratio

As said by Al Franken the award winning American comedian “The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They 're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.” A strong media bias can be proven in the United States through, viewer distribution and viewers trust in different media sources, journalist ideologies, and issues focused on by the media. Biased meaning that the media reports on certain stories and events that favor their…

Mid-Term Exam 2016 The following are my written responses to the denoted questions for my mid-term exam in Professional Issues. Question 1: Here I will define “critical thinking” and discuss the impact of critical thinking by a physical therapist on “quality” and “value”, which are components of the updated vision 2020. Critical thinking is a purposefully refined and elevated mode of thinking wherein an individual asserts control over their own biases and innate tendencies, approaches…

be the mythical one. Myth turns into truth, and not many can capture the essence that myth must not be regarded as the ultimate truth. Likewise, those who create the myth form it with bias. These are the rulers who determine the ultimate faith of a society. They form the ideologies,…

The article “Capitalism vs. the Climate” was written by Naomi Klein about climate change and its solutions in relation to the economy as well as the political reactions to such solutions. Her article mainly revolves around the premise that climate change deniers are right about one thing, that in order to fix climate change, drastic changes in the modern economic models are needed. To this end, she makes a good, albeit flawed argument, as although she does provide a plethora of sources for her…

Communication can be a difficult barrier to cross when guilt or blame is involved. I’m sure we all have stories we recall as children where we tried to squirm our way out of trouble. As parents or babysitters we usually observe the smaller things to determine the larger picture since it may be difficult to determine what truly happened from bystanders or children. And at times it may be easier to determine what happened based off of post incident behavior rather than personal narratives. The…

something strictly a Direct Cinema film. Is it something that attempts to be unbiased by showing individual moments that aren’t affected by the camera, or is it something that encapsulates a specific emotion in a specific time and place with as little bias as possible? The technique of it all is very much up to the filmmaker’s style and I think that is good because it gives a certain freedom to the filmmaking…

approximately 12% of the population, as stated in the Henrich article. The implications for studies which focus on one type of participants can lead research to only be relevant in one part of the world. In doing this, we limit ourselves and create a bias towards what is expected of people from other cultures. These biases can especially translate into forms of discrimination. For example, if children are taught a specific way of solving problems at school, usually analytical problem solving in…

decision.1 These biases are seen in several spheres of life. Two that I will discuss are social and individual. Social biases are ones that involve aspects of everyday life. An example is hindsight bias, or when you believe you knew something along even though you did not. An individual bias is a bias that you hold against an individual group. These are typically implicit biases, subconscious opinions that come from cognitive processes. An example of this is an implicit stereotype against…

The Freedom Riders is one example where the truth was either hidden or revealed through the news. Bias where strong in the south where people were segregated meaning that African Americans were usually passed off as troublemakers compared to others who saw the acts of segregation an act of cruelty. The trick to get pass bias is to interpreting the document to discover what is fact and what is fiction. It would deem best for one to gather multiple primary source documents such as first hand…

Bias is a tendency to lean in a certain direction, often to the detriment of an open mind. Those who are biased tend to believe what they want to believe, refusing to take into consideration the opinions of others. This thought process can greatly influence people’s social interactions, and the way that they live their lives. Perceptions develop how people perceive themselves and others on a daily basis. It is important to investigate how people’s actions and behaviors, effect, not only…