How Does Your Own Biases Affect How You Interpret Information?

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The following 7 questions are designed to accompany the book, Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories, For definitions on your specific personal biases visit https://biashandbook.com/tools

We all have biases. How do your biases affect the way you interpret information in social media and news stories?

1. How true would you say it is that you get your information from only one media source?

2. To what extent do you get your information from your own inner circle?

3. Do you ever have the feeling the current opinion held by your inner circle may not be correct? But you don't want to upset anyone by disagreeing?

Yes

Sometimes

4. To what extent do you allow yourself to consider that those with opposing opinions could have a good point?

5. To what extent do you believe there is only a right or wrong side to a story?

6. How often do you research the source of the information you receive?

7. How often do you examine the facts used to support the information in a story