Bias Essays

Beverly Yuen Thompson, an author and associate professor of sociology at Sienna College, details her experience and findings of interviewing tattooed women in her ethnographic study Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women, and the Politics of the Body. Beverly approached her study by conducting qualitative interviews with various heavily tattooed women, …

When given any information, you’d hope for it to be true. Well, what if there was a way that there could be many forms of giving you information, to make it seem to be true, but could be messing with you. This is known as deceiving. A very common area …

In this essay I will be analysing two biased sources of information, the first, a newspaper article and the second a film presenting an account of what happened. The newspaper account focuses on the death of the detective by alleged gangsters, whilst the film focuses on the unjust hanging of …

Confirmation bias refers to a type of selective thinking where one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one’s beliefs. It can be difficult to encounter something or someone without having a preconceived opinion. You only see one way to approach a problem or idea, and that’s your …

This essay will explain what rationality of investors and home bias are and then discuss to what extent the ‘home bias’ phenomenon challenges the view that investors are rational. In neoclassical economics, investors are supposed to be rational, which includes 3 points(assumption)?, 1) “people have rational preferences across possible outcomes …

In the colonialistic bias of Heart of Darkness by Francis B. Singh, he argues that Conrad wrote the story from first hand experience of imperialism. Conrad was a victim of Russia’s colonialistic policies toward Poland. Singh says that the basis of Heart of Darkness comes from Canard’s own experience in …