Are you biased or intellectually honest?
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First of all, to think with all the human intervention, that the Bible should have not only survived, but survived as CLOSE to what Jehovah probably intended is amazing in and of itself. With Jehovah using human secretaries with human, inadvertent errors, and to have said all those years ago that the earth "hung upon nothing at all" and that it was "a circle above which God dwells"; that the destruction of major peoples and cities and the lives of Kings and other leaders could be so well chronicled; that our entire way of keeping record of time changed because of the life of a man foretold in this book...is awe-inspiring to me. People can reject the Bible if they want, but they should at least have th intellectual honesty to admit that at the very LEAST, it is a reliable historical and scientific document!\n\n I am appalled at the people who will dismiss the entire book because of the small discrepencies myself! Or the folks who will down anothers interpretation because they don't agree with it. If God thinks we are doing our utmost to please HIM, do you think he will care how we pronounced a name, or whether or not we got an area of the Bible incorrect on a map?  I sure hope he remembers in the end that, after all, I AM human!! I have a friend who's name I can't pronounce to her liking even after knowing her for nearly 35 years!! My tongue just will not wrap itself around the pronunciation she prefers. Does that make me not her friend? Does that mean she never wants to be around me? Nope!! It simply makes me less learned than I wish I were! I'm thinking God will be as understanding about such mistakes, as long as I have not purposely offended anyone while I was here; murdered anyone, stolen, lied; etc...  But for me to completely reject the entire book because I can't agree on semantics, is not only ignorant, but dangerous spiritually!
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Response bias is the error that results from the tendency of people to answer a question falsely, through deliberate misrepresentation or unconscious falsification.\n\nAffirmation response bias is the inclination of respondents in a marketing research survey to give the answer that they believe the interviewer wants to hear. This may occur if the questioner is obviously angling for a particular answer (as in push polling) or if the respondent wishes to please the questioner by answering what appears to be the "morally right" answer.
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Admit that you might be wrong
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I like both actually.  If it's a "real" question that needs its facts supported in some way, I'd like to see the sources that were involved.  If it's an "opinion" type question then sources aren't important.
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liberal bias...but i think that is an inherent charateristic of people in the journalism industry.
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No. \n\nI am a very honest person, but there is such a thing as tact.  I will gloss over details that I think would hurt, or put it in a gentle way but not outright lie.
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Be straight up and honest-and be prepared to answer why
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when someone thinks differently from you - that is not necessarily an indication that they lack intelligence.\n\nin your case it may be a strong indication that in fact they have some.
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truth is we dont need to educate ourselves to know if an opinion is biased or not because all opinions are subjective and prejudicial (that's why it's called an opinion. otherwise, it would have been called a fact)
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I think that that is a fair evaluation. Perspective is as much based on background and experience as it is the angle of sight.
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Widening one's perspectives.
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An honest person who is upfront about the truth
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I'm known as someone who is blatantly honest, which causes trouble once in awhile. I believe in expressing my opinions...but I'm also known as an extremely empathetic, sensitive person at the same time. I hope to achieve a balance between those.
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It's easy to say "I'm blind to handicaps", but I don't think it's honest.\n\nYes, I notice the handicap, but I also look beyond it to the person to see what's going on with them.  The better contact I make with them, the less their "challenge" challenges me.
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Try the PDF file located at http://www.perfectionlearning.com/ac/ac.react.chap20.pdf\n\n"A bias is a prejudice in a general or specific sense, usually in the sense for having a preference to one particular point of view or ideological perspective. However, one is generally only said to be biased if one's powers of judgment are influenced by the biases one holds, to the extent that one's views could not be taken as being neutral or objective, but instead as subjective. A bias could, for example, lead one to accept or deny the truth of a claim, not on the basis of the strength of the arguments in support of the claim themselves, but because of the extent of the claim's correspondence with one's own preconceived ideas."\n(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias)\n\nObjective - "Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices: an objective critic.  \nBased on observable phenomena; presented factually: an objective appraisal."\n(http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/objective)
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I prefer to be truthful. I find myself embellishing stories sometimes, and when I realize that I am doing it (sometimes it just comes out!!) i catch myself and rephrase it to be more honest. I want to be someone who people believe they can trust in, so I speak the truth.
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It depends on what content you are analyzing.  Are you analyzing survey/questionnaire responses?