Monday, April 3rd 2012
Entry_3 Lê Thị Hồng Hoa
ENTRY
3
Identifying Bias
ITEM 1:
- - Discrimination ( prejudice in action)
- - Analysis: women are discriminated in
job. The interviewer still thinks that this woman is not suitable for the job
interviewing. He supposes that just men can do the job. He seems to look down
on the woman’s ability.
ITEM 2:
Whites Believe They
Are Victims of Racism More Often Than Blacks, Study Suggests
ScienceDaily (May 23, 2011) — Whites believe that they have replaced blacks
as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America,
according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts
and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show
that America has not achieved the "post-racial" society that some
predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election.
- - Assumption
- - Analysis: The
Whites give the conclusion that they are the victims of racial discrimination,
not the Blacks after Barack Obama’s election. However, they lack information,
evidence and they just predict it based on their observation.
ITEM 3:
Gay
relationships don't last
For example, John
Gottman, a University of Washington emeritus professor of psychology, and his
colleagues collected data from homosexual couples across 12 years, and found
that about 20 percent had broken up over that time. That rate projected over a
40-year period is slightly lower than the divorce rate for first marriages
among heterosexual couples over the same time span, according to the study
published in 2003 in the Journal of Homosexuality.
- - Assumption
- - Analysis:
in this survey, the author gave information “his colleagues collected data from
homosexual couples across 12 years, and found that about 20 percent had broken
up over that time” the problem, however, is that we do not know 20% per what. In fact, we
do not have the total numbers of people who joined survey. Therefore, we could
not make any conclusion that gay relationships last more than heterosexual
couples relationships.
Your work is good. I just want to comment on several minor things:
Trả lờiXóa- Item 2: the part you quoted is just the headline. It includes only the key info so we shouldn't expect the evidences to be shown here.
- Item 3: I agree that the evidences given is not persuasive enough. Just want to add a detail: the "relationship" may not equal to "marriage" so that people may question this comparison.
You did a good job. However, i'd like to add a small thing in the 3rd item. In my opinion, the bias is expressed most clearly in the sentence "That rate projected over a 40-year period is slightly lower than the divorce rate for first marriages among heterosexual couples over the same time span". There is a comparison here. Do first marriages among heterosexual couples have the higher divorce rate than homosexual couples surely? The conclusion is just the author's subjective opinion, like your analysis.
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