POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Selection Bias, Rob Ford, Content Analysis
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Political bias are driven by perception not really illustrates power of frames and mind. 1st: selection bias occurs on the selection of stories. Very good for the group they want to help, and detrimental for the group they don"t want to help. 2nd: presentation bias how the stories are presented. Composing stories in a manner that presents a significantly view of reality which systematically and disproportionately represents one side over the other. You will tell a story in a way that helps your people or hinder the people"s situation which you don"t like. You see a systematic effort of distorting stories from reality. Pages 134 and 137 of article he talks about the difficulties of identifying these biases or have the ability to see it, as it conforms with reality in some cases. #1 is more news worthy they will chose event 2 because 1 will hurt government"s side, and 2 will not.
