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Systemic bias: This page outlines real, useful information about systemic bias on Wikipedia. We are aware that we have biases, and we do what we can to combat them. One against many: This page gives advice for dealing with situations where one editor wants to make a change but multiple editors oppose the change.
Research shows that Wikipedia is prone to neutrality violations caused by bias from its editors, including systemic bias. [6] [7] A comprehensive study conducted on ten different versions of Wikipedia revealed that disputes among editors predominantly arise on the subject of politics, encompassing politicians, political parties, political movements, and ideologies.
For example, if a survey is conducted by a single individual, their own beliefs, biases, and perspectives can influence the responses of the participants. This "self reporting" is subjective, and limited because it is based on attitudes, values, and behaviours of the individual. [8] [9] Common source bias is also present in participant selection.
Academic bias is the bias or perceived bias of scholars allowing their beliefs to shape their research and the scientific community. It can refer to several types of scholastic prejudice, e.g., logocentrism , phonocentrism , [ 1 ] ethnocentrism or the belief that some sciences and disciplines rank higher than others.
On the other hand, confirmation bias can result in people ignoring or misinterpreting the signs of an imminent or incipient conflict. For example, psychologists Stuart Sutherland and Thomas Kida have each argued that U.S. Navy Admiral Husband E. Kimmel showed confirmation bias when playing down the first signs of the Japanese attack on Pearl ...
Wikipedia strives for a neutral point of view, both in terms of the articles that are created and the content, perspectives and sources within those articles.However, the encyclopedia fails in this goal because of systemic bias created by the editing community's narrow social and cultural demographic.
According to a meta-analysis of 17 implicit bias interventions, counterstereotype training is the most effective way to reduce implicit bias. [14] In the area of gender bias, techniques such as imagining powerful women, hearing their stories, and writing essays about them have been shown to reduce levels of implicit gender bias on the IAT. [15]
This cognitive bias can happen even if the evidence against the assumption is presented to the person. This tendency has extensive ramifications for societal dynamics, interpersonal relationships, as well as conflict resolution. Intentionality bias may result in misjudgment of people's behavior, misunderstanding as well as miscommunication.