Examples of bias in the following topics:
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- Gender-based achievement gaps suggest the existence of gender bias in the classroom.
- Teachers may reinforce gender bias simply by drawing distinctions between boys and girls.
- Teachers may reinforce gender bias simply by drawing distinctions between boys and girls.
- If test score gaps are evidence of gender bias, where does that gender bias come from?
- Further, though most research and debate about gender bias in the classroom focuses on bias against girls, recent evidence suggests that boys may be falling behind girls, especially in literacy.
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- Media bias refers the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media.
- Bias exists in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.
- The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article.
- The direction and degree of media bias in various countries is widely disputed .
- The apparent bias of media is not always specifically political in nature.
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- Post-judgments or beliefs and viewpoints derived from experience that maintain unfair or stereotypical perspectives on a group of people is more accurately referred to as bias.
- Bias can develop through pronounced negative interactions with the stereotyped groups.
- Both bias and prejudice are generally viewed as negative.
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- Race is the primary determinant of human capacities (prejudice or bias).
- A certain race is inherently superior or inferior to others (prejudice or bias).
- Individuals should be treated differently according to their racial classification (prejudice or bias).
- Individual-level racism is prejudice, bias, or discrimination displayed in an interaction between two or more people.
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- Sociologists, Weber stated, must establish value neutrality, a practice of remaining impartial, without bias or judgment, during the course of a study and in publishing results.
- They caution readers, rather, to understand that sociological studies may, by necessity, contain a certain amount of value bias.
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- They are designed so that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are purportedly without bias.
- Finally, critics have expressed concern that standardized tests may create testing bias.
- Testing bias occurs when a test systematically favors one group over another, even though both groups are equal on the trait the test measures.
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- People tend to hold positive attitudes towards members of their own groups, a phenomenon known as in-group bias.
- A key notion in understanding in-group/out-group biases is determining the psychological mechanism that drives the bias.
- Intergroup aggression is a by product of in-group bias, in that if the beliefs of the in-group are challenged or if the in-group feels threatened, then they will express aggression toward the out-group.
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- In 1966, the Coleman Report launched a debate about "school effects," desegregation and busing, and cultural bias in standardized tests.
- It also helped define debates over desegregation, busing, and cultural bias in standardized tests.
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- People who report that God is very important in their lives are on average more satisfied with their lives, after accounting for their income, age and other individual characteristics that might bias results.
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- The gender pay gap has also been attributed to differences in personal and workplace characteristics between women and men (education, hours worked, occupation etc.) as well as direct and indirect discrimination in the labor market (gender stereotypes, customer and employer bias etc.).