ENTRY 3
Indentifying Bias
ITEM1: indentifying visual bias
- Discrimination
- Analysis: In
the poster of Vinolia Soap, a white girl criticizes a black boy that he is
dirty because he does not wash himself with Vinolia Soap. The poster is
unsuccessful and criticized strongly by public, especially black people,
because the black think that there is a discrimination here and they seem to be
offended.
ITEM 2: indentifying research
- Analysis: In research, look at the percentage of Vietnam Gallup
institute gave, there is a problem here. The problem is that the percentage of
the people who do not know or refuse to answer the question in the survey is
large ( 35% ). Therefore, the conclusion of Gallup institute is not convincing
enough because their conclusion just based on the percentage of people whose
answer is “ YES ”.They seemed to ignore this figure, or even 35% of the people
may be considered as the percentage of the people whose answer is “ NO ”.
ITEM 3: indentifying article
Analysis: The title of the article “ cứu sống bé trai rớt xuống giếng nhờ iphone”
made readers confusing. The title expressed as if the iphone is the main factor
which saved the boy. However, in fact the boy was saved thanks to hard effort
of the rescue workers who used the iphone as camera. It means that the iphone
is just a device to help the rescue workers save the boy more easily.
For item 2 and 3, you should clearly name what kind of bias your items are, instead of just analyzing them.
Trả lờiXóaIn item 2. I think there is no kind of bias here. The article just says the true statistics collected. We have to respect the answers of informants, and certainly we have no right to force them to state "YES" or "NO" clearly. They can leave it blank, that's normal. It will take much time to look for a survey with all questionnaires totally fulfilled, and a large number of researches come to conclusion despite this lack.
Dear my friend,
Trả lờiXóaIn my opinion, there are some problem in your items.
In the first item, I don't think that it is discrimination at all. The girl think that the black boy is dirty; and his black skin is the results of not using the Vinolia Soap. There are not any discrimination in this poster because the discrimination is "treating people in a less favorable way because they are members of a particular group (prejudice in action)".
I think the bias in this poster is assumption because the girl concludes that the boy is dirty just because he has the black skin; but the fact that he is a black boy. Therefore, the girl make a conclusion based on her limited knowledge of the facts.
Sincerely,
Hanh Cao
I really like the second item in your entry. The way the press concesl the truth behind unconvincing statistics make the readers being unaware of the fact that the press freedom in a Vietnam is not free at all.
Trả lờiXóaIn the 3rd item, the article bring the story up like a rare and special circumstance. However, the iphone was inly used to help the workers find the position to pull the boy up. The title of the article is catchy, but irrelevant.