Personal Bias In Research

The belief-bias effect is when people make judgments based on prior beliefs and general knowledge, rather than on the rules of logic. For example, when a student takes a history test and answers short-answer questions based on their prior beliefs and general knowledge about the time period, rather than thinking about the course material’s relation to the test. To maximize people’s abilities to effectively reason or make decisions, students should be taught about the belief-bias effect, so that they make fewer errors when trying to answer questions.

When discussing whether people have a bias or not, most people would answer that they do not have one or at the least not one they can think of. I too normally will answer that I do not believe I have a bias and tend to treat everyone and everything equally. But when we really sit down and reflex back on our thoughts and behaviors it becomes clear that most everyone has a bias of some type whether it is against or for a person, place or idea. Most everyone, including myself, has one or more biases that we contend with daily. In this paper, I will discuss my personal bias I have toward panhandlers, the origin of this bias, how it could maybe affect my career and possible solutions to my bias.

Climate change has been a subject of discussion in the media for many years, supported with the use of arguments against oil polluting the environment and extreme scare tactics of Polar ice caps flooding civilians backyards. The issue has been ignored by the majority of lay people as seeming too complicated, and with all the conflicting information in the media in the past, who can blame them? However, scientifically, climate change and what perpetrates it is fairly simple to understand and society as a whole is beginning to come to a clear consensus on climate change. Thanks in part to more readily available forms of media and information, people have become cognizant of the fact that climate change is a legitimate problem which requires immediate amelioration. While this may seem melodramatic, society is realizing that climate change is an issue which can no longer be denied if the human race wishes to continue.

Through looking at recorded snow fall totals, Lake Freeze overs, and agriculture impacts one is able to start seeing trends in environmental changes. By looking at record snow fall records we can get a sense of historical air temperature and see how a specific location has been warming. Lake Freeze over data also gives good indications of an average air temperature increase. But there are still many people in this world that doubt that climate change is real. Yes earth goes through different periods of time where the climate has changed drastically. Look at the Ice Age, there was a time where a huge glacier stretched all the way across Vermont and in some places that glacier was 2 miles thick. Take for example, former Texas governor Rick Perry, who is in charge of the Department of Energy stated in 2011 that, “Global warming was an unproven scientific theory.”(Sidahmed, M. (2016, December 15). To the new presidential administration the topic of climate change has been looked at as a joke or even as a false idea. What we now know with the amounts of glaciers residing and the rise in temperatures and sea levels I believe that this subject is a bigger topic than what they believe. This subject needs to be taken seriously and we as humans need to take responsibility for some of our actions that have impacted climate change. I strongly disagree with many different actions that our president has taken regarding the issue

I earned my LCSW-R while coordinating independent living skills for males aging out of foster care in New York City. I am supervising Social Work interns for Clinical Placement for the last 15 years. My academic goals are to complete the PHD DSW Online Program, develop professional knowledge, cognitive theories of human behavior, preventive and intervention, in-depth understanding of social systems, theories, and an effective construction as I conduct un-bias research. As a pastor and clinical therapist with a private practice for the last 18 years, I believe it is time to take my professional experience to the next level. The anticipated goal is to open a Community Center and out-reach ministry, which will provide resources with the targeted

For those individuals who doubt climate change is real, I would strongly recommend they watch this documentary; it just might change their perspective on climate change and how it has led to extreme weather changes. Research shows that "Eighty-eight percent of natural resource professionals in this study agree or strongly agree that the science indicates that our climate is changing" (Allred et al. 10). The problem is most people do not truly believe the facts that are discovered by scientist. President Donald Trump is one example, you hear it over news reports saying that us as people do

The nature of humans has always been to put themselves above others. For centuries, bias has been present in almost every society; the idea of somebody being different than another creates obvious boundaries. Bias against people who are racially, religiously, socially and economically different from their counterparts has created wide arrays of historical imbalances. Is personal bias an old freedom or is it an idea that should be censored to preserve the emotional and in some cases intellectual well being of others? The arguments throughout history on protection of victims versus the freedom of speech and rights of the accused has shown that unconscious bias affects every aspect of history in negative ways.

The Difference of faith and religion. Faith is what people think supernatural terms as in faith in God. Faith is from a more naturalistic psychological perspective is merely the innate drive to search for meaning purpose and significance. Religion is to the community of people who share similar beliefs and who work together to provide both support for going deeper into those beliefs and accountability for living up to those beliefs. What i think is the difference between faith and religion is that faith is what you belief in and religion is the real thing where you go to church and practice you religion. These two authors worked both of there lives to write about faith and religion.

Do you think climate change is real? If not, how do you explain the rising temperature or the rising ocean water? It’s a question that we, as students, hear about every day. We hear it at school, on the news, at political debates, and even at dinners with the family. This question is everywhere. People either deny that climate change is real or debate about it. The reality is that climate change is a global concern because it affects humans in the present and will affect humans in the future if we don't do anything to stop it.

Many personal experiences and influences can cause skewed results in any research study I do. I have to ask myself questions such as, How does my religion, gender, age, where I am from, background, political affiliation, socio-economic status, group of friends, etc. influence the way I think about this group? How could that influence how I conduct my research? Also, why does this matter? The findings of my studies, in the research on polygamist societies, will influence whether their marriages will be legally recognized in the United States.

Climate change is the term used to describe the changing weather patterns over a certain amount of time (O’Brien 2006, 65). Both experts and common-folk alike have differing opinions about the cause of climate change—is it completely natural and cyclic or has climate change been accelerated by human activity? Whatever your opinion, one would be hard pressed to argue that climate change isn’t occurring at all—May 2012 was the 327th month straight in which the temperature of the

The idea that the earths climate is consistently changing is widely accepted by nearly every scientist around the world due to sufficient evidence and long term weather trends backing this conclusion. Climate change can be noted by the several juristic changes that are currently occurring within nature. It is causing an intensification of natural disasters-such as hurricanes, floods, droughts, and many more-due to warmer temperatures allowing for more moisture to be held within the air. It also causes a decrease in biodiversity within nature, causing several species of animals to become endangered or even extinct due to habitat loss. Both of these are just some of the many ways climate change is negatively impacting nature and ultimately us as a human race. Despite all of this evidence, there is still a sizeable group of people that do not believe in such climate change. Some, on the other hand, may believe in the issue, but ignorantly assume that it is not of any importance to them. They are wrong. There is more than an ample amount of evidence to prove that climate change is occurring now more than ever across the world, effecting ourselves as well as ecosystems more than we know. There are several organizations that meet to address and solve the global issue of climate change. Still, a wide majority of nations around the world choose not to become involved in these foundations, making them just as large of a problem, as they feed off of others contributions.

This means that diverse opinions (due to different levels of knowledge) are more valuable than the views of a few experts. Surowiecki (2004) explained that most experts within a field tend to think alike and conform to what other experts believe without challenging the results. Moreover, these experts can also be biased due to restricted amounts of information. Rarely, he added, does an expert show the complexity and the entirety of a question or research topic (p. 22). Agreeably, no single expert can understand everything about a topic, especially in a constantly changing environment. However, many people can give multiple views and illuminate the issue better.

A fallacy or an ugly truth? The Global Warming debate has been circulating in the minds of everyone from the most qualified, knowledgeable scientists to the average layman. With the abrupt end of the last major ice age over 7000 years ago, the new climate era’s advance into the 21st century covers most of the time mankind has inhabited a planet with a mild and relatively stable and unchanging climate, is clearly compelling. From sea levels rising, to the melting of the glaciers, loss of fresh water and increase in natural disasters, this phenomenon is a threat advancing with tumultuous force, and little warning for those who cannot be bothered to notice the signs. The evidence that climate change is a naturally occurring consequence of human action is a fact that needs to be recognized, and recognized now. Global warming is a fact because weather has become more intense over time, a rise in sea level has occur and there has been a change in earth and water temperature.

Climate change is the change in the average weather for an area or state over many years. Earth’s climate has been changing from warmer periods to cooler periods and vice versa. Events that support this change is when the “volcanic eruption and outgassing increased the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and brought the Earth out of its ‘snowball’ stage several million years ago.” (Hetherington, R., & Reid, R. G., 2010) As well as when the “continental drift broke up the largest land masses, slowly affecting climate, because the sea acted as a heat buffer and because of the redistribution of ocean currents.” (Hetherington, R., & Reid, R. G., 2010) Recently, Earth’s climate has been in a warming stage where “its average temperature has risen a little more than one degree Fahrenheit during the past 100 years.” (May, S.) Human activities have created an increasingly negative effect on the environment and are now causing the earth to go through a period of global warming. While climate change is a pressing issue, it is also a very politically-charged and controversial one. As Berkeley Professor Andrew T. Guzman wrote, “To believe that human behavior is causing warming is to betray one side of the political divide, and to reject that notion is to betray the other” (Guzman, A. T., 2013). However, if we can’t admit that human activity is responsible for the recent climate changes, then the Earth will be negatively impacted. Although natural causes have been responsible for