Reflection Paper On Bias And Bias

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,

In this paper we will analyze and discuss unconscious biases in our personal lives, workplace and home. How we become aware of these biases, what causes

Women have expressed their political allegiance long before the dawn of modern era. However, the quest for equality has always been undermined by the male dominance throughout the history. Even in the most developed countries like the United States of America, women were not entitled to the same rights and privileges as men. “In Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote. The Supreme Court upheld state court decisions in Missouri, in which a registrar had refused to, register a woman as a lawful voter because the state 's laws allowed only men to vote”.

The NL310 course has thus far presented me with a variety of topics, but the discussion about cognitive biases have resonated with me the most. I believe it has made a profound impact on me because I did not realize before how vulnerable I was to biases such as framing, confirmation trap, and the anchoring effect. Of these three biases, I think confirmation trap has the biggest influence on me. I sometimes find that when working with other mids, I look for information to confirm what I believe about them, usually regarding negative things . This has gotten me into situations in which I find it hard to sometimes find the good in people although I know it exists.

Intellectual - “…biases are just than - unconscious.” (Unconscious Bias) As school leaders, we are able to see more than one moving part like a single department or school group. With distance comes perspective, and with that perspective is the moral imperative to address what we can see that needs changing. Bias is one of those subtle, and sometimes

A personal bias of mine would be not being able to completely understand LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer, intersex, asexual) community and the issues that they have that comes along with being gay, queer, transexual etc. I think the reason behind this bias is that I am a married heterosexual woman so my sexuality has never been discriminated against, making it difficult to fully comprehend/relate to a potential client. Even though the world is progressing it has been a pretty slow process and by the looks of it, it is apparent that America is very hetero-centric. Johnson (2006) states how simple it is for heterosexuals in the world. For example heterosexuals can watch television or watch a movie and be assured of seeing characters, news reports etc. that reflect the reality of their own lives (Johnson, 2006). Heterosexuals, unlike those of other sexualities, are free and many times pressured to get marry, adopt children or getting a job without being questioned and harassed by society.

Regardless, bias will form due to one reason or another. There are several forms of bias one can have towards ethnicity, sex, weight, religion, and/or culture. Everyone has a bias opinion on certain stances, but there are ways and certain thought processes that can be used to challenge a negative assumption to a neutral view.

In past assignments I’ve spoken on behalf of my lack of privileges, and even in this assignment I will reflect on them the same way. Most people think that to avoid responsibility you have the privilege that others lack, but I feel that even when you lack the responsibility you still say the same things as someone who does not lack it.

As a potential new counselor when I first heard about bias it sounded pretty easy to locate. I thought bias were obvious and thus easy to spot and work on. Examples of bias were discussed and we talked about abortion, gay community, and end of life. With that type of subjects it appears easy to figure your thoughts and feel bias free. These are common controversy matters you already thought about and have an opinion on. The problem is more towards ideas you have not think about yet or you thought only through your perspective. For example in the abortion case how would you react with abortion, adoption or keeping the baby? You have to think about all the different aspects of one case and work on what sound not right for you in order to practice

Biases did not start with one individual, nor would they be able to end with only one person. However, it just takes one individual to put the wheels of progress in movement. Biases come in numerous forms, the tone of harmful words said by an individual, improper remarks. Once an individual acknowledges how stereotypes and discrimination can hurt others as well as him or herself, a light goes off and the requirement for change is evident. One individual can't change the whole world, however he or she can change his or her very own practices and behaviors which can add to rolling out an improvement to his or her environment.

It is useful at times acting on stereotypes in which it helps us to categorize and make prejudgments.

Unlike perspective is depend on knowledge and past experience, bias is about where the beholder stand on certain issue, what he choice to advocate or condemn. It important to know that everything we read does not mirror or perfectly represent the reality. Also when something is biased, we need to be

Blake explains, “There were voters, for example, who were disappointed with President Obama's economic record and believed he hadn't added any jobs during his presidency. They were shown a graph of nonfarm employment over the prior year that included a rising line indicating about a million jobs had been added. ‘They were asked whether the number of people with jobs had gone up, down, or stayed about the same. Many, looking straight at the graph, said down.’"(Blake). Having biases however, isn’t always a bad thing. According to Howard Ross, author of “Everyday Bias,” having biases don’t make people bad. It just makes people human. Ross claims, “People are hardwired to be biased because it helped keep our ancestors alive. They survived, in part, by having to make quick assumptions about strangers who might prove threatening.” So while you may have personal biases that you are too afraid to admit, these may actually be due to

Few contemporary authors have had as profound an effect on their genre, society, political debate, or literature in general as Robert Heinlein. Science fiction novelist Ken Macleod suggests that the world was having a dialogue with Heinlein, unfortunately, one of the unintentional ramifications of dialogue is misunderstanding, one cause of this is reader bias (Macleod et al. 231). Bias is most corrosive to readers’ understanding when brought to their initial reading, consequently, they should avoid it for at least three reasons; first, it causes a work or author to be regarded in many contradicting ways; second, it creates an atmosphere in which faulty arguments are made; and third, it results in significant elements of the story being ignored. One caveat, readers should not construe this in such a way as to imply that the arguments presented here are merely about the book itself, so much as being about the overall scope of it in relation to Heinlein and the bias levied for or against the book and him. Of additional consideration is the impact those biases had on the overall message as well as the meaning of the work itself and to further extrapolate this into how bias affects other works.

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.