Tag: bias
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How many teens are on antidepressants?
A recent survey found that 1/3rd of teens have been prescribed anti-depressants, but this is probably a result of sampling bias.
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Bias in Presenting Quantitative Data
Newspapers can ‘bias’ the presentation of quantitative data by stretching out the scale of the data they present, making differences between bars seem larger than they actually are (or vice versa!).
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Limited Media Reporting of the Labour Conference 2022 – Ideological Agenda setting or just ‘news values’…?
Examples of The Metro’s right wing ideological bias in Autumn 2022.
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Was the BBC’s coverage of the 2019 election biased?
Is the UK biased against the conservatives? How do we even measure this?
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Political bias in the media 2019
Examples of right wing media bias from the filthy Daily Mail, from the 2019 general election.
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Evidence of Right Wing Media Bias
Is there a right-wing bias in the British media? Here I explore some of the sociological evidence which suggests that there is a right wing bias in the media and point out some of the limitations of this evidence. In a recent (May 2017) interview with the Radio Times, David Dimbleby pointed out that Jeremy…
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Right Wing American Media Bias
Identifying media bias through content analysis is a key skill in sociology. The American media is often accused of having a right-wing bias which means they will present a pro-capitalist, pro-business world view as normal and desirable and promote a neoliberal policy agenda. (1) Below I analyse one newspaper article (about why 66 million Americans…
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Does the Mainstream Media Influence our Voting Behaviour?
The Independent recently reported that only 28% of Sun readers voted the way the paper wanted them to. This is the lead into a brief article about the Sun’s waning influence over it’s readers – as the article points out that the paper ran an anti-Corbyn campaign, which it did, and some of the headlines and…
