Detecting Bias Quiz
The 'Detecting Bias Quiz' assesses understanding of different types of media bias. It explores scenarios such as confirmation bias, bias through placement, and source control, enhancing critical thinking and media literacy skills.
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Which of the following scenarios BEST illustrates confirmation bias?
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A researcher ignores data that contradicts their hypothesis.
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A journalist uses leading questions in an interview to elicit desired responses.
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A teacher grades essays more favorably when they know the student's name.
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A politician relies on anecdotal evidence to support their policy proposals.
Correct Answer
B. A journalist uses leading questions in an interview to elicit desired responses.Explanation
Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out, interpret, and favor information that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses. In this scenario, the researcher's bias leads them to disregard or downplay data that challenges their hypothesis, potentially skewing the research findings.Rate this question:
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News media often use labels and titles to describe people, places, and events. A person can be called an "ex-con" or be referred to as someone who "served time twenty years ago for a minor offense." This is an example of what kind of bias?
- A.
Bias through statistics and crowd counts
- B.
Bias through use of names and titles
- C.
Bias through statistics and crowd counts
- D.
Bias through selection and omission
Correct Answer
B. Bias through use of names and titlesExplanation
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Readers of papers judge first page stories to be more significant than those buried in the back. Television and radio newscasts run the most important stories first and leave the less significant for later. This is an example of what kind of bias?
- A.
Bias through placement
- B.
Bias by headline
- C.
Bias by photos, captions and camera angles
- D.
Bias by source control
Correct Answer
A. Bias through placementExplanation
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To make a disaster seem more spectacular (and therefore worthy of reading about), numbers can be inflated.What kind of bias is this?
- A.
Bias by source control
- B.
Bias through placement
- C.
Bias through use of names and titles
- D.
Bias through statistics and crowd counts
Correct Answer
D. Bias through statistics and crowd countsExplanation
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Companies and public relations directors supply news outlets with puffpieces through news releases, photos or videos. Often news outlets depend on pseudo-events (demonstrations, sit-ins, ribbon cuttings, speeches and ceremonies) that take place mainly to gain news coverage. What type of bias is this?
- A.
Bias by source control
- B.
Bias through statistics and crowd counts
- C.
Bias through selection and omission
- D.
Bias through placement
Correct Answer
A. Bias by source controlExplanation
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