All 7 Uses of
bias
in
The Tipping Point
- The only possible conclusion, according to the study, is that Jennings exhibited a "significant and noticeable bias in facial expression" toward Reagan.†
Chpt 2
- The subtle pro-Reagan bias in Jennings's face seems to have influenced the voting behavior of ABC viewers.†
Chpt 2
- Instinctively, I think, most of us would probably assume that the causation runs in the opposite direction, that Reagan supporters are drawn to ABC because of Jennings's bias, not the other way around.
Chpt 2 *bias = a personal preference -- especially a prejudice that prevents objective consideration
- But in the particular, unguarded way that people watch the news, a little bias can suddenly go a long way.†
Chpt 2
- When people watch the news, they don't intentionally filter biases out, or feel they have to argue against the expression of the newscaster," Mullen explains.†
Chpt 2
- This happens even when you give people a clear and immediate environmental explanation of the behavior they are being asked to evaluate: that the gym, in the first case, has few lights on; that the Contestant is being asked to answer the most impossibly biased and rigged set of questions.†
Chpt 4
- Social Control, and Biases in Social-Perception Process," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1977). vol. 3$, no. 7, pp. 485-494, Page 161.†
Chpt E.Notes
Definition:
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(bias) a personal preference -- especially a prejudice that prevents objective consideration
or:
any tendency to move in a particular direction -- such as a car that tends to want to swerve toward the right