Communication : The Danger Of Bias In Communication?

Implicit bias is bias in one’s judgment or behavior that results from one’s unconscious associations. In order to thoroughly discuss implicit bias, implicit associations must first be examined. Implicit associations refer to one’s unconscious associations between a group and how one feels about said group. For example, a person may subconsciously associate straight people as “normal” and homosexuals as “wrong”. They may have this unconscious association even if they do not express this opinion

What is a bias and why is it such a relevant topic. A bias is an ignorance of a fact, perspective, topic, or cause that’s usually followed by arrogance or closed-mindedness. Throughout history, especially America’s history, women and people of the black race have been mistreated or misunderstood in some way due to biases. In fact, we know this from “An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton” and “The Souls of Black Folk: Of Our Spiritual Strivings”.

Being of target of bias can affect socialization due to the negatives attitudes that it entails.

It is important that news broadcasting networks do not let personal bias effect the story that’s being told to its audience. People who watch the news, opinions are heavily influenced by the information given to them. Viewers think their opinion is original but are unaware that the information they receive is biased and is meant to influence and form their opinions about a certain topic or argument. Many believe that the news is unbiased and factual because journalist or experts are providing them with evidence.When, in fact, these news outlets are filled with producers, reporters, and writers, who share the same viewpoints. This is groupthink and groupthink is very prominent in news broadcasting networks. Groupthink is when a group of people who share the same ideologies make decisions as a group. In an interview with Fox Business’s John Stossel, Bernie Goldberg explains that groupthink effects the viewer because like-minded people at news networks only show the audience one-side of an argument or story because of their personal opinions on a the topic. This means that news

In essence, explicit biases are based on general knowledge and ‘common sense’ that an individual can identify and expound on. Naturally, having an explanation does not make these judgments, or their premises, accurate. An example of an explicit bias would be assigning gender roles to different tasks. For instance, at the extreme, women were not seen fit to join the labor force in the developed countries until well into the 19th century; the explanation for this was that women were supposed to stay home and take care of the household, and were less able than men to do most of other types of work. However, no scientific evidence exists to date that identifies any significant differences between genders on their performance on work-related tasks (for more information on the history of gender roles in the working environment in the United States, see e.g. Kessler-Harris,

No matter who you are or what part of the world you are from implicit bias are a constant issue in society. These tendencies typically stem from structural injustice, implicit bias, and personal discretion. Structural injustice is when a category of people are associated with an insufficient status when comparing to other groups of people engaging in the same actions. Implicit bias are stances and stereotypes that affect our comprehension, actions and decisions held by our unconscious manner. These bias are involuntarily and are done without individuals awareness or intentional control. Everyone is exposed to these biases at a young age through the media, parents, and teachers. Each individual holds possession of implicit bias whether they

Any individual on any given day can display subtle biases; these biases are generally automatic, meaning they are done in a manner that can be unbeknownst to the individual who has acted upon them. Subtle biases bring discrimination to the surface while exposing the true nature of certain individuals. Examples Mexicans drink a lot, have

Bias is defined as “prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair”. Each and everyone of us have a bias perspective towards one thing or another whether we are brave enough to admit or not. A person becomes bias through personal experiences or things they have read or heard. My brother and I used to play mario kart together and he would refuse to play unless he had the character “Wario” because he thought Wario was the only good character. This was an example of him being biased against the other characters in the game.

Communities all over the world deal with the multi faceted problem of biases, including racial bias. A Bias is defined as “prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair” (Dictionary.com, 2017).

Bias is the conviction that with people from no less than one race are below average contrasted with people from various races. Generally, this perspective furthermore incorporates the conviction that one 's own race is superior to anything distinctive races. People are

“You know, biases are the stories we make up about people before we know who they actually are. But how are we going to know who they are when we 've been told to avoid and be afraid of them? So I 'm going to tell you to walk toward your discomfort.” (Myers)

Bias is a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned according to Dictionary.com in America a black American is judge by his or her appearance and behavior also known as social stratification, but according to the popularity of Caucasian they are consider to be normal to society compared to an individual who is colored is to be treated as an alienation meaning something that does not exist sociologically. According to President Donald Trump states that “African Americans are lazy fools only good at eating, lovemaking and thuggish” fake news sites have tended to bolster their stories with comments Mr. Trump did actually make. So some stories are quite plausible. (Odonel) Scientist and African American philosophers legitimate believed that if all truth is subjective, then there is no need for its jurisdiction.

I believe that bias is bad, this has been prevalent throughout my life. Where after the 9/11 which the anniversary will be in 3 day from now, many american muslims were under scrutiny from many americans who were victims of 9/11. In so many of the world’s tragedies, there was bias and scrutiny; things like, The holocaust, The Crusades, Rwanda, The Red Scare. All of them were fuelled by a social bias. I have seen people on social media argue about things that don't even affect the people talking about them. Nearly every war in history has stemmed from a bias in some way or another.

Some major bias’s I found in myself where mainly just silly ones. These would be things such as me saying to myself, “why is she talking like that, she must be weird.” When in reality she could have been the nicest person I met that day but I automatically made a judgment about her and pushed myself away. Or me saying something to myself like, “ she’s really quite in class, she must be socially award.” These are bias’s that people have in their every day lives. I could go on and on about things that I have automatically judged somebody on when I had no idea if that was even the case. I’m not saying that I judge people all the time but what I am saying is that I am human, and it is what it is, but is that just another bias too? See, what I have learned is that biases will never go away. They are constantly happening. We can remind ourselves to not be so bias but it is in our human nature to do so without even thinking about it.

My whole life I have lived in a farming community, just outside of a tiny town called Ryan, Iowa. I have two older brothers and one older sister, making me the baby of the family. Since Ryan is such a small town, containing just over 350 people, I drove to a town near me to attend school. As you can tell I grew up and lived in a very small area, containing many of the same type of people; holding many of the same beliefs. I never realized how detrimental this was for me in regards to establishing bias. Having almost no diversity within my classmates at school, or within my community made it challenging to not form a bias.