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Publication bias is a type of bias with regard to what academic research is likely to be published because of a tendency among researchers and journal editors to prefer some outcomes rather than others (e.g., results showing a significant finding), which leads to a problematic bias in the published literature. [139]
Corporate bias, when stories are selected or slanted to please corporate owners of media. [11] [12] Coverage bias [13] when media choose to report only negative news about one party or ideology [14] Decision-making bias, means that the motivation, frame of mind, or beliefs of the journalists will have an impact on their writing. It is generally ...
False balance, known colloquially as bothsidesism, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence supports. Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may omit information that would establish one side's ...
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.
Just because you can make a compelling case doesn't mean you're right. A lot of people have convinced others that the world is flat. That doesn't make them right. Just because you've won over others, or you're using the same arguments that previously won you over doesn't mean you will win a debate with a well-informed opponent.
In epidemiology, reporting bias is defined as "selective revealing or suppression of information" by subjects (for example about past medical history, smoking, sexual experiences). [1] In artificial intelligence research, the term reporting bias is used to refer to people's tendency to under-report all the information available.
The Pollyanna principle (also called Pollyannaism or positivity bias) is the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones. [1] Research indicates that at the subconscious level, the mind tends to focus on the optimistic ; while at the conscious level, it tends to focus on the negative.
Narrative bias, also known as narrative information bias, is a cognitive bias that skews perceptions towards information contained in individual narratives, ...