Factual products are meant to inform people about certain topics without including bias or opinions. Including bias could anger people if their opinions are not represented and would make the product misleading rather than factual. While some limited bias, like quotes, could provide additional context, the product should remain focused on presenting facts without advocating any particular stance. Overall, factual products are most useful when they present straight information without bias so that the audience receives an accurate portrayal of the subject matter without any misleading interpretations.

1. Should factual products contain bias?
Factual products are documents that give information about a certain subject.
Examples of this could be a leaflet about depression and linked effects. Another
could be a cook book. A factual product is essentially anything that publishes
information about something, whether it is instructions, a self help book or even a
television documentary. They are created to inform people about certain topics or
issues that are becoming more popular and raising awareness for it or to just
basically guide people to improve their daily lives and maybe even to help them
achieve something. Either way, they are there to inform and instruct people on a day
to day basis.
There are a few reasons why factual products shouldn’t contain bias. These things
could include the fact that the opinion expressed in the product could potentially
anger someone or a certain group of people etc. If this did happen then it would
more than likely end in the company who produced the product’s reputation being
damaged and maybe even sued for ignorance and other things similar. The
company and producers of the product are being relied on to create a truthful
document so adding bias into it would potentially create something misleading and
not what the audience want.
Another reason why factual products shouldn’t contain bias is because then the
product would not be factual anymore as it is not all fact and has different opinions
and such included in the information. This isn’t what the audience of the product
would want. They want straight forward information on the subject in question and
not opinions about the subject, whether it’s good or bad, for or against. Also, maybe
the opinions of the producer and/or designer of the product differ from the actual
company’s opinions, causing one of them to have misinterpreted opinions formed
against them because of the final product from the people reading it.
However, there could be some bias included in factual product in the form of quotes.
This could be displayed to show people’s opinions and thoughts on the subject of the
product. However, it should not become a major part of the publication, just snippets
to provide more information on how people feel about the subject matter.
Another reason a factual product should contain bias is to argue two sides of a
subject matter on the opinions people have and then from there, set the facts
straight. An example of this could be in a self harm leaflet, getting peoples thoughts
on why somebody may self harm and then providing research facts on why they do it
etc. However, it should go no further than that in my opinion.

2. In conclusion, I don’t think that factual products should contain bias because then the
‘factual article’ wouldn’t be fully factual since it has opinions included in the product.
This way, the product would be fully correct and not misleading. If the product did
have bias, it could cause complaints from people who have a different opinion,
ultimately ending in the producer being sued or maybe even fired. Either way it
would seriously damage the reputation of the company that put out the product.