Bias

What is Bias

• Facts Which Prove A Point

• Prejudice against a thing

• prejudice in favor or against a thing

• purposeful misinformation

The only three types of Bias are Informational, Selection, and Confirmation.

• True

• False

A systematic difference from the truth which arises during the handling of information is?

• Confirmation Bias

• Bias

• Informational Bias

• Selection Bias

Bias Occuring when the sample is not accurately representative of the population is?

• Misrepresentation

• Group Bias

• Confirmation Bias

• Selection Bias

A letter written by a rich nobleman during the french revolution may suffer from what type of bias?

• Confirmation Bias, as they will side with what they already believe.

• No Bias, as it is a primary source.

• Selective Bias as the nobleman is not representative of the common person.

• Information Bias because they get to decide what they write

the data says that yellow is the correct answer. (but there may be a mistake)

• This answer is correct and yellow is not

• this answer is also correct

• every other answer is right this one is wrong

• do not pick yellow any other answer is correct

That question was an example of,,,?

• Informational Bias

• Selection Bias

• confirmation bias

• Lying

in your own words, quickly explain why bias is something we need to look out for in text that we analyze in history.

Rate your understanding of these Biases

• I understand these Biases well. I would be able to actively identify them in text.

• I kind of understand them and might be able to identify them in a text.

• I kind of understand them but would not be able to identify them in text.

• I do not understand them at all and need further instruction