Optimism bias

negativity, criticism, and no confidence in the future. If everyone had a pessimistic attitude, what would be altered? Likely, no one would be persistent in aiming to achieve their goals and learning from their failures. As a result, I believe in optimism. During my entire life, I’ve moved several times. From Connecticut to New Jersey to California back to New Jersey and to…well, you get the idea. Due to this, I quickly learned to adapt to new environments and assimilated the situations. More…

Positivity is the practice of being or the tendency of being positive or optimistic in attitude.Having a positive attitude can bring you far in life,whether it's in a job,school or in sports.Just thinking positive rather than negative,even when you are at your lowest point and the thought of no return shows good qualities in a person.It can improve things and reveal endless possibilities which can help you achieve a lifelong goal or even get you a job that you always wanted or to make the high…

“Don’t bring negativity to my door.” –Maya Angelou. This quote tastefully disagrees with Barbara Ehrenreich’s argument in her essay “The Menace of Negative People.” In this essay I don’t agree with the fact that negativity is a positive personality. I believe you can be a positive realistic person, without being naïve. Being realistic to me does not mean that your perception to every situation is going to be negative. Yet, my perception is to be aware and conscientious to what is happening in…

teacher I find that it is one thing that I need to work on in order to improve my sense of culturally responsive teaching. On the Personal Self-Assessment of Anti-Bias Behavior question number two that discussed how our upbringing may contribute to our own bias stood out to me the most and is something…

It could be ethical, race, religious bias and or class. The news media is not always honest. The media could be objective about their depictions of the important issues. There are specific issues that are made to look a specific way to benefit a certain group and influence the public opinion…

The prerequisites provided by Achinstein insufficiently capture all of the evidential relationships. Here it is important to look for prerequisites that cover the whole landscape and demarcate it into sensible divisions. Reiss (2015) argues that a theory of evidence should be informative about how to gather evidence and when to be justified in believing a hypothesis on the basis of evidence in non-ideal scenarios as well as ideal ones. He puts forward four desiderata for a theory of evidence. It…

Over my 26 years of service in the Coast Guard I’ve had the opportunity to serve in many capacities: as a subordinate to service leaders, as a rescuer during search and rescue missions, as a law enforcement officer interdicting the smuggling of illegal narcotics or enforcing federal fisheries regulations and now as a lead engineer responsible for directing others in the maintenance and operation of equipment aboard a 225 feet buoy tender. As rewarding as many of these opportunities have been,…

Testing for technical errors is fairly unemotional, but your summary and conclusions are not. If you do not like an egg, you may search a little harder to find cracks in the shell. This article helps a tester put down his or her prejudices and bias (as much as possible), so that his or her conclusions and summaries are a little fairer. This is partially a motivational piece and partly a lesson in fairness and professionalism. You Have Way Too Much Pride The first obstacle that you (and this…

In Defense of People and Language: A critical analysis essay Gender equality is a very hot topic these days as women demand equal rights in the workplace and are even running for President. This fight for equality can even be seen in the way we speak and write. Cyra McFadden, the author of “In Defense of Gender”, writes about how the English language is increasingly becoming gender neutral in an attempt to be sexually unbiased toward women. However, the overuse of gender neutral terms is…

with the family and begin to build a therapeutic alliance. Ignorance of the culture also likely plays a big influence in my own personal biases. As a former military veteran, serving in a conflict involving a culture that was predominantly Muslim, my bias towards the fact that the family is Muslim, evidenced by their use of the Koran, is a reality. In addition to my own personal experience, I am subject to the daily influence of mainstream media which tends to report violent acts of terror,…