Wishful thinking

Today, we will be talking about bias and how to assess it to reduce distortion of information or of behavior; which could be positive or negative biases. Our last session, we talked about central tendency, we saw how the wrong measurement of central tendency could misrepresent the data by biasing it, or distorting systematically. For those who were not absent last time, I will do a small recap of the central tendency and then I will illustrate what a systematic error (bias) in action. The…

For this reflection, the assigned reading was from Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. The first part of this chapter broke down difficult conversations into three different conversations, including conversations about the mistake or issue, how each person feels about the issue, and how the conflict makes each party feel about themselves. The conversation about what happened is exactly like it sounds, each party tries to figure out who made the mistake and…

Summary In this article, Delcourt and associates (1998) outline the implications of the carbonized plant remains to better grasp the effects Prehistoric Native Americans had on the Eastern Kentucky landscape through paleoecological sequence. Specially addressing how Prehistoric Native American populations bred and selected for plant-food resources in Eastern Kentucky during the Pleistocene and early Holocene (Delcourt, 1998). 36 radiocarbon-dated, botanical assemblages, mostly charcoal, obtained…

Elizabeth Rodriguez Professor Marcelo CAS 113A 19 September, 2015 Transnationalism Identity is who you are. Who you identify yourself as. They are many different ways on defining identity and it all has to do within the situation. In this case I define it as, knowing who you are or what something is. Another word that also should be defined is Transnationalism. Transnationalism is going beyond national boundaries and interests. In two class readings that we covered, “Central American…

Media Bias Bias damages research as the researcher chooses to allow his bias to distort the measurements and observations or their interpretation. Bernie Sanders’ plan ensures that every American student gets the opportunity to go to college regardless of their family’s financial situation. Each article proves how the author reveals bias by revealing the rhetoric that persuades the intended audience and who’s responsible for the perpetuation of misinformation. Although the author’s criticizes…

Misinformation in headlines directly impact what readers expect from the article and leaves readers with false first impressions. The headline is the first part of an article readers are exposed to, it tells the readers “what kind of article [they]’re about to read […] and it sets the tone for what follows” (Konnikova). For example an article with the headline “A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep” and the same article with the headline “Why We Need Eight Hours of Sleep” were remembered…

There are many people that have to improve on many things. Some of those things could be anger, self- esteem, or empathy, and I am no acceptation. Like many other people I have to work on many things. More things are more important than the others but if you work on all of them you can become a better person. And in this essay I will compare my two Success Profilers one older than the other. The things I have that compare greatly I the two is Interpersonal Assertion, Time Management,…

The Effects of Graphic Organizers and Increasing Reading Comprehension School districts and educators have been criticized for many years for not teaching students’ all of the skills needed to compete with higher achieving countries. In the past 20 years, there has been a lot of debate over reforming education in the United States. With all the emphasis focusing on ways to raise academic standards and performance levels in schools throughout the United States (Donalevy, 2007) higher…

trustworthy and very limited perspective views. Tibetans created the websites I used. I believe the information on those websites are more specific and trustworthy because Tibetans are the ones who experience their culture and have the best knowledge about their culture than anyone else. They deliver the best quality information about the culture where they grew up. Some sources I found were written by outsiders, so the point of views of those people would be very general and similar to each…

I am predicting Tom Robison is not guilty. First, how the prosecutors witnesses talked on the witness stand. Heck Tate witness changes which side of Mayellas bruises are on. He also does little or no help being a witness because he never saw Tom at the Ewells house that certain day. He also only saw the aftermath of the incident. Moreover, Mr. Ewell the second witness was unsuccessful for many reasons with his lying. He first could not make up his mind on the descriptions of his daughter. Which…