Selection bias

views. The opposing side also had little to complain over, as the article was much closer to their views than the average Breitbart article. In this instance, Breitbart took the best path they could. With such a charged topic, showing their usual bias would have caused a large amount of backlash, although that may not have been as large a problem for it as it would be for a local…

selecting a judge we should analyze how each individual achieves the best balance of accountability and judicial independence. When talking about the issue of whether we should elect or appoint a judge, I believe that we should use merit selection. With merit selection I believe that this could help pull the system away from politics and focus more on how the…

Media bias is the bias in journalism and news production for the mass media inside selections of cases and stories and how they are addressed. Media bias can be found anywhere in the media related to very controversial topics such as, abortion, gun control, and majorly in politics. This is nothing new but what is new the shameless ways of blurring/nudging the truth in line with marketing. The blurring of truth hinders the average consumers mind and blurs all the facts and different perspectives…

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…

We commonly look back and refer to history in order to progress. When we refer to the past, we are educated of our mistakes and can strive from our successes. However, we are not always truthfully exposed to everything that has happened in the past because things have either been left out, hidden or we have been diverted to other stories distracting us from them. Howard Zinn (51) argues that there is no such thing as impartial history, there is always two sides to every story. All history is…

world the media, in all of its many forms, plays a crucial role in informing the average American person, however, due this media bias this influence of the media is not always a positive one. The Media is a very broad category that includes information that comes from the Internet,…

The story was purposefully censored in the US, however, in order to ease the audience’s exposure to the event and lessen the readers’ perception of the event’s magnitude and importance. This same exact censorship via selection bias, depiction bias and corporation control happens repeatedly for a myriad of topics and highly affects the process and politics of social change in America. Regardless of how modestly mass media controlled is published, it is clearly a much larger…

As time progresses, media has been gaining more influence on our daily lives and opinions, but it has been starting to disseminate the facts and information about key topics. Since a lot of people rely on the media for information, it causes them to see an event from only one viewpoint, which causes their opinion to sway. One case of this, involving a current event, is when the media reported Trump’s decision to rescind the DACA, which is a policy that protects certain undocumented immigrants to…

year 10 and Miss Johnson, today I will be discussing how bias may be present in documentaries and feature articles. The feature article that is being discussed is remembering chernobyl written by Tobias Muenchmeyer and the documentary be discussed is bowling for columbine directed by Michael Moore. The definition of bias is ‘prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair’(dictionary.com, 2017), bias can also be a way to manipulate an individual's…

Bias is a reason to feel or show slant or preference for or against somebody or something. Each choice is affected by a scope of inclinations and predispositions. The primary point of the organizations is to acquire benefits and to accomplish it everybody bargains with morals and fairly inclination with their choices. We should know about our inclinations and work to limit the impact on choices, activities, and correspondence. Biases or differing perspectives influence the media, public opinion,…