This document discusses biases and prejudices. It defines bias as a preference or inclination that prevents unprejudiced consideration, while prejudice refers to preconceived judgments or opinions formed before the facts are known. The document provides examples to differentiate between bias and prejudice. For instance, bias is shown when a teacher assumes one student started a fight because she knows that student, while prejudice is evident when someone believes boys are better than girls at math based on their gender alone. The document emphasizes that biases and prejudices are common but unfair, and provides tips to maintain objectivity like identifying possible biases in images and situations.

2. DIFFERENTIATING BIASES
AND PREJUDICES IN A STORY
ENGLISH 9
Quarter 3 – Module 1
MELC Q3: Differentiate biases from prejudices.

3. by Liliana Heker
ENGLISH 9
Quarter 3 – Module 1

5. representation of a SOCIETY

6. A servant; a representation of
Rosaura. (They both listen to their master
and follow order/request.)

7. A representation of Senora Ines.
They both trick their servants to perform
duties without their subject knowing it.

8. -represents wealth
-symbolizes social status

9. -the happiness and sweetness of an
upper-class lifestyle. The luxuries that the
upper society enjoy because of their
money.

10. Wealth and Power symbolizes how
people and their service can be bought
and paid for. Reinforces Rosaura’s status
as a servant not a guest.

11. -an object that represents innocence,
naivety and purity.

12. -Reality and the voice of reason

13. -fantasy of life that will never be.

14. -reminder that Rosaura isn’t part of
this class

15. -a person who represents innocence,
naivety, and purity.

16. -a person who represents innocence,
naivety, and purity.

18. Social class is division of a society
based on social and economic status.
People are people are grouped into a set of
hierarchical social categories, the most
common being the upper, middle, and
lower classes. These divisions cause
people to commit bias and prejudice due
to their stereotypical notions of the
different social classes.

19. BIAS PREJUDICE
It is an attitude, feeling, idea, or belief
for or against a person, or idea that
results in a way considered to be
unfair.
It is an attitude, feeling, idea, or
belief towards a person or group
member based solely on their group
membership.
Biased means one-sided, lacking a
neutral viewpoint, or not having an
open mind.
The word is often used to refer to
preconceived, usually unfavorable,
feelings towards people or a person
because of their gender, social class,
age, disability, religion, sexuality,
race/ethnicity, or other personal
characteristics.
To better understand, here is a diagram to differentiate bias from prejudice.

20. BIAS PREJUDICE
If you’re biased towards something, then
you lean favorably toward it; you tend to
think positively of it. Meanwhile, if you’re
biased against something, then you lean
negatively against it; you tend to think
poorly of it.
In this case, it refers to a positive or
negative evaluation of another person
based on their perceived group
membership.
This results in unfairness This results in discrimination
Example:
Grace voted Janice for presidency because
she is her best friend
This is bias because Grace favored Janice
because she is her friend and not because
of her ability to lead.
Example:
John will win the math Olympiad
because boys are better in mathematics
and science subjects.
We get to see that this is prejudice
because there is a prejudgment based
on personal opinion.

21. Remember:
Bias can be referred to as a process where you
prefer one thing over another thing especially in
a way considered to be unfair. It is a belief that
some ideas, people, etc. are better than others.
When one person is biased towards a certain
thing, it is difficult to make a fair judgment.

22. Remember:
If you have a good impression of something, then you
are biased towards it. But if you have a bad impression of
something, you are biased against it. If you have to make
a choice about these two things, you’ll be inclined
towards the thing you have a good impression about.

23. Example:
o For example, if someone has a bias about women, they
can take two different approaches. If they're biased toward
women, they might hire only women because they feel they
make better employees for some gender-related reason. On the
other hand, if they're biased against women, they might hire a
man over a more-qualified female candidate.

24. Example:
o another example: Imagine that a teacher sees two
students fighting. She personally knows one of them. So she
jumps to the conclusion that it was the other student who
started the fight. Here, the teacher is being biased towards the
student she personally knows. But in reality, she really has no
idea who started the fight.

25. Remember:
Prejudice is a predetermined opinion or to
form an opinion or a belief that is not based on
actual experience or reason. It is often
considered to be a negative, unfair towards a
person based on that person’s membership in a
particular social group

26. Remember:
Although prejudice can be both negative and
positive, we often tend to have negative views
towards those who don’t belong to our social
group. In contrast, we show positive attitudes to
people who belong to our social groups.

27. Consider that biases and prejudices are evident around us, we should be
more careful in speaking and writing to avoid being unfair or discriminating.
Here are some tips for keeping objectivity and eliminating biases and
prejudices.

29. Identify possible bias issues present in the following pictures. The
first is item is done for you.
GROUP ACTIVITY
1. Age differences in workplace
Business companies these days prefer younger workers
than older employees because they may need more time
to adjust to recent_ technology changes.
2. Gender difference in school
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30. 3. Skin color in advertisements
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4. Difference in Religion
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5. Difference in Social Class
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31. Using the infographic below, sum up what you have
learned about this module’s lesson.

32. PERFORMANCE TASK
Through the comic strip template below, make a dialogue about the differences
of boys and girls, but make sure to avoid statements that are bias and prejudice.

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