1. Bias and it’s affect upon
studies & psychologists
Mon. July 6,
2015
1Harold Washington CollegeLisa F. Mears
Running Head

2. 
 Bias (ˈbīəs) is an inclination of temperament or outlook to
present or hold a partial perspective, often accompanied by a
refusal to consider the possible merits of alternative points of
view. People may be biased toward or against an individual, a
race, a religion, a social class, a political party, or a species.[1]
What is Bias?
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 Biased means one-sided, lacking a neutral viewpoint, not
having an open mind. Bias can come in many forms and is
often considered to be synonymous with prejudice or
bigotry.[2]
 There can be many forms of bias. Some overlooked
aspects of bias, occurring especially with the pedagogical
circles of public and private schools—sources that are
unrelated to fiduciary or mercantile impoverishment
which may be unduly magnified—include teacher bias as
well as a general bias against women who are going into
STEM research, noted William Van Ornum, former
research director of American Mental Health
Foundation.[3]
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What is Bias? (cont.)
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What is Bias? (cont.)
 Prejudice in favor of or
against one thing, person, or
group compared with
another, usually in a way
considered to be unfair.
 Cause to feel or show
inclination or prejudice for
or against someone or
something. "readers said the
paper was biased
toward the conservatives"
Noun
Verb
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 Van Ornum is known for taking a multidimensional
perspective toward bias, based both on his
background as school psychologist and practicing
clinical psychologist.[4]
 Taking a broad approach, William Van Ornum of
Marist College [6] cautions that the simplistic pattern
of conflating all educational bias with standardized
testing can lead to a laissez-faire atmosphere were
other forms of bias are not confronted. This is
harmful to teachers, students, parents, and the
general public.[7]
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Perspective on Bias
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 Economic : when people/government interpret a
law/contract in their favor for economic reasons.
 Inductive bias in machine learning.
 Cultural bias: Interpreting and judging phenomena in
terms particular to one's own culture.
 Racism, regionalism and tribalism: Judging people or
phenomena associated with people based on the
race/ethnicity, region of origin, or tribe of the people,
rather than based on more objective criteria.
 Sexism: Judging based on gender, rather than on more
objective criteria.
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Other Aspects of Bias
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 Sensationalism: Favouring the exceptional over the ordinary.
However this sentence structure makes is sound like an appeal to
popularity or normalcy fallacy. This is actually a more complex
problem, whereby, the proponent elevates the importance of the
evidence to more subjects than it is relevant. This is accomplished
by willful bias, assumption or, putting conclusion ahead of
evidence. In practice, this includes emphasizing, distorting, or
fabricating exceptional news stories to boost popularity.
 Speciesism: Favouring one species over others.
 Funding bias in scientific studies also known as the agent-principle
dilemma (principal–agent problem).
 Bias of an estimator is a type of error in statistics in which a
measurement is consistently different from its expected value.
 Medical Bias is also known as a physician having a conflict of
interest.[10]
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Bias
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 Experimenter's Bias
 In experimental science, experimenter's bias, also known as
research bias, is a subjective bias towards a result expected by the
human experimenter.
 Attribution Bias
 that lead to biased interpretations of their social world.
Attribution biases were first discussed in the 1950s and 60s
by psychologists such as Fritz
 Response Bias
 Response bias is a general term for a wide range of
cognitive biases that influence the responses of participants away
from an accurate or truthful response
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10. 
Bias
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Political bias has been a
feature of the mass media
since its birth with the
invention of the printing
press. The expense of
early printing equipment
restricted media
production to a limited
number of people.
Historians have found
that publishers often
served the interests of
powerful social groups.

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Bias
Thought
Theory
Experimentalism
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12. 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias
 1. Steinbock, Bonnie (1978). "Speciesism and the Idea of
Equality". Philosophy (53): 247–
256. doi:10.1017/S0031819100016582.
 2. "bias ...; prejudice", The New Merriam-Webster
Dictionary, ISBN 0877799008
 3. http://www.americanmentalhealthfundation.org.
 4. "Crisis Counseling with Children," Van Ornum and
Murdock, 1990, NY: Crossroad/Continuum.
 6. http://www.marist.edu
 Wikipedia psychology bias images
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 7. "Psychological Testing Across The Lifespan," Van Ornum et. al.
2008, Saddle Brook, NJ: Prentice Hall, Pearson.
 10. Cain, D.M. and Detsky, A.S. Everyone's a Little Bit Biased
(Even Physicians) JAMA2008;299(24):2893-289.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book
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Introspection
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g+bias&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go
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14. Bias
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