What are some ways to identify biases in an article?
What are some ways to identify biases in an article?
user
Good question! So there are a couple of different types of bias, and they can be particularly hard to identify, and be unfair or harmful.
assistant
Okay, can you identify them?
user
Sure.  One major type of bias is “identifying with people in power” (or sometimes just called “authoritarianism”).  This means that the author or researcher really believes that the groups they are writing about have better ideas, more facts, or better arguments, and they tend to over-trust or have faith in those groups.  This is often harmful, because in real life, people with power have reasons to lie, which makes it more likely that they’ll lie, and because different groups have different values, and so it’s good for us to check the facts and questions independently.  Because of this, it’s often really important to identify this bias, and be skeptical of articles that have a strong bias.
assistant
Excellent. What other biases can you think of?
user