Essays on Bias

In our Science 200 class, we have been studying the complexity of decision-making and bias in the human brain. One concept that stood out to me was confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. First, we are going to focus on confirmation bias. Confirmation bias means that...

Confirmation Bias is the desire to believe that something is true no matter any evidence that may be presented against that belief (Confirmation Bias, Psychology Today). Confirmation bias occurs when a person wants certain ideas to be true. The individual disregards and stops gathering all...

A confirmation bias is an individual’s tendency to filter out information that aligns with their own existing beliefs and ideas. It is a trap that most of us fall into unknowingly. Even when evidence that contradicts our views appear in front of us, we might...

A ubiquitous phenomenon, confirmation bias is the interpretation of evidence or inferences in ways that are partial to one’s existing beliefs. Prevalent with individuals who have ingrained and emotional views, this bias stems from the direct influence of embracing information intuitively. Within the spectrum of...

People who are generally technologically inept would believe that social media and search engines are impartial. They believe that because the World Wide Web is easily accessed by anyone with Wi-Fi, these platforms only expedite the spread of information to the general public. It is...

The educational problem being addressed in this paper is the persistence of barriers to the advancement of women in higher education administration. Examples of these barriers include individual interpersonal biases (such as sex role stereotyping) and institutional biases (such as discriminatory policies used to recruit,...

Article 1: Artificial Intelligence: The Gatekeeper Between Brands and Consumers All four articles share the same main theme, artificial intelligence: on people, the government, and the workforce. An article on Forbes magazine revolves around the importance of trust between AI and the consumer, and how...

Optimistic Bias: Innovation Through Creators Hope: used to encourage and convince ourselves of a better future or outcome against the odds. It is the light at the end of the tunnel. It lives in the dreams of the innovators of our future. It is the...

A cognitive bias disrupts a normal cognitive process like reasoning, evaluating, and recalling memories. This perception mainly results from the tendency for individuals to put their own beliefs, mood, and preferences above any outside fact or opinion. Cognitive bias is a distortion in our perception...

People who are generally technologically inept would believe that social media and search engines are impartial. They believe that because the World Wide Web is easily accessed by anyone with Wi-Fi, these platforms only expedite the spread of information to the general public. It is...

Of course, that is oversimplified do people believe in that the past is real, arguments can inform whether the history existed but will leave that unparalleled. The thing is that there is not any record, anywhere, including the specific and exact fact of any moment...

According to Brewer et al. (2005), prestige is “directly related to an institution’s ability to meet consistently its customer demands”. From a business and marketing study perspective, the university is the industry, its enumerated customers are the “students, alumni, employees, corporations, governments, and private individuals”;...

Self-fulfilling prophecies and confirmation bias work together to build pictures of the world that are both true and false. When we want something to be true, we only seek information that validates such a belief. Our prior notion about something determines what we discover about...

People have the tendency of proving to others and themselves that they are right when it comes to what they do and what they say. It is simply a mechanic to protect the person’s ego based on the notion that nobody likes it when they...

Narrators provide insight into a character with the way they are described and what events are emphasized. In Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin, and A Hero of Our Time, by Mikhail Lermontov, both have engaged voices, which add a more personal element to the novels,...