The article, “Cultural Bias in Wikipedia Content on Famous Persons,” investigates if there is any cultural bias in Wikipedia biographies. The writers started by discussing what Wikipedia is and some of the issues with it. Some of these issues include: lack of accuracy, unknown motives, uncertain expertise, volatility, unconfirmed or lacking sources, and selective coverage biased by the specific interest of contributors. The authors decided to test the last concern; they formed a hypothesis and tested
examines current literature to consider whether or not teachers' cultural and ethnic biases may influence the results of standardized behavior rating scales used to measure student functioning. The authors briefly mention research regarding construct bias and predictive bias related to behavior rating scales. Their study, however, focuses on research related to rater bias. The authors chose to examine rater bias in terms of cultural and ethnic biases for this study because they believed incorporating
Nevertheless, many researchers have revealed that the gaps within cognitive and intellectual assessment may be due to cultural bias (Schellenburg, 2004) As many standard intellectual and cognitive assessments have been developed for a dominant group such as the western culture. These intellectual and cognitive assessments are then utilized on other cultures which leads to bias and invalid research (Mushquash & Bova, 2000). Although, other factors such as development is considered cognitive behaviour
world has millions of people of diverse cultural backgrounds. They have their own beliefs, food habits, art forms, and dressing styles. Since ancient times, these people are coming across each other and are exchanging their ideas. However, sometimes people turn hostile because of their cultural prejudices. This tendency to judge the other people based on the standards of his or her own culture is cultural bias. It is a major hindrance in performing a cross-cultural research. A person who is culturally
that may have a negative impact on ELLs’ school experience and academic achievement is unintended cultural bias on the part of their teacher. Bias is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as “Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.” I’ve always considered myself to be a person with few biases, however, one unknown bias was brought to my attention this week during the reading. Diaz-Rico and Weed (2010), used an example
categorize people. This is a crucial feature. These categories give an order to our everyday lives. Every day, people are grouped into categories based on social and biological characteristics, this is called race. Cultural biases exist whether we want them to or not. We all have cultural biases if we would just acknowledge them we can recognize it. No matter where I have lived and grown up at, I have learned that all races practice racism, discrimination and stereotyping, racism is everywhere. These
Counselor not only accurately do assessments, but they also case conceptualization, diagnosis and provide treatment. Bias is a serious issue, when cultural differences come into play so the clients as well as the counselor’s worldviews are important factors to consider. When establishing a cultural relevant assessment of client’s symptoms, it is recommended that counselors first collect identifying information (Sue & Sue, 2016). Which involves asking the client for the reason he or she decided to
2001). Some authors stated that the inaccuracy of standard assessment results are caused by cultural bias (Klenowski 2009, Laros & Tellegen 2004, Bernhard 2000 and Schellenberg 2004). Also others taken into considering developmental factors of this issue (McCauley 2004). Comparison of the study, issues and research are most likely to convince cultural bias of the outcomes. Rest of
Essay #3: IQ Tests and Cultural Bias There was a cartoon showing different animals, including an elephant, fish, seal, and monkey, lined up by a tree in front of a man behind a desk. The man said he was going to make a fair selection by giving them all the same test. The test was that they all had to climb the tree. In this case, the monkey probably was the only one that thought the test was fair. Welcome to the controversy over IQ (Intelligent Quotient) tests and cultural diversity. In 1904, a
Bias is the negative assessment of one group and its members, This may, for example, direct or more indirect expression. Present bias may threat patient- clinician communication, decrease efficiency of patient-health care providers’ relationships and increase distrust in health care settings (Blair, Steiner & Havranek, 2011). My track is a family nurse practitioner program. My bias is cultural. According to Campinha-Bacote (2003), health care providers must recognize that it is important to address