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Who is your Bias? BTS! favorite song? Favorite lyrics??

Ali @ali995 (26) 19 Jul 22

I wanted to know who is your Bias and why in bts? I have a hard time decidin, cuz they all are good! Do you like there songs, if yes which one is closest to you heart or mind? All of them are nice.. but my favourite is life goes...

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Coded Bias

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 23 Jun 22

This documentary from Netflix was very enlightening. An African American college student is setting up some application for a class and finds that AI(Artificial Intelligence) won't pick up her face until she puts a white mask...

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Bias

J.P. Randolph @jprtist (656) • Pueblo, Colorado 2 Oct 19

Lately, the right is making a big thing out of bias, in their rebukes of various charges against them. This is nonsense. Bias exists. It exists whether or not a claim is true. There is no way any kind of criminal charge exists...

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What is your trusted news source these days?

The Horse @TheHorse (238314) • Walnut Creek, California 2 Aug 18

Ever since Weekly World News closed its doors, I've had a hard time finding a news source I can really trust. Both the MSM and FOX news make me shake my head and sigh, and I'm left in news limbo. The Huffington Post stuff that...

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When people know two or three things about you

Robert Centauro @ourlot (982) 31 Oct 17

They often assume they know exactly how you are. Why do they do that? Isn't that completely annoying?

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Food For Thought

MandaLee @MandaLee (3804) • United States 14 Apr 17

Mom and I went to the thrift store yesterday. Some sweet boys were lost and asked me to help them find their Mommy. There was no employee around, so I asked a passerby to help them find their Mommy. This experience once again...

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Everyday biases that affect our decisions

Jagjit Singh Maan @jagjit_singh (3) • Dubai, United Arab Emirates 26 Nov 16

Life is about taking decisions and moving on. We do it a number of times every day. Can you list a few cognitive biases that affect our capacity to take decisions? E.g. When someone meets new people, he or she gets comfortable...

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News about Duterte OVERDONE

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 1 Oct 16

A journalist from the Bloomberg Tv asked Mark Mobius about the downside side problem of the economy. But he claims that every country in Asia has it's own reform problems. And when ask about him and my country, he mentioned that...

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Is God Bias??

Zap @zap_81 (1019) 11 Aug 16

I have come across some post which mentions that God told me this , God told me that. I do respect God but I do not know if all this is true. Are they trying to say God is bias?? If yes then are they promoting or defaming him...

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made of glass

Elizabeth @Poppylicious (11134) • United Kingdom 17 Apr 16

We went to the football yesterday. There we were, standing on the terraces, the weather unable to make up its mind {rain? sun? cloud? heat? cold tootsies?} our ears deafened by five thousand voices. They screamed at the referee,...

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Confirmation Bias - We Think What we Think

Sherry @norcal (4889) • Franklinton, North Carolina 5 Dec 15

Have you ever heard of Confirmation Bias? That is what it’s called when people have a tendency to give more weight to evidence that proves something that they already believe, while disregarding evidence that would disprove...

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Stay away from the Lady Driver!!!

Nitin Sharma @Rationalwriter (1813) • Lucknow, India 15 Nov 15

It is a common thing that I have noticed, that in a road accident involving a lady, the lay always gets the benefit of the doubt!! If it is guy's fault, every one on the street will jump to help the lady and scold and hit the...

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Does the news on the tv tell the truth?

Jekca @Jessicalynnt (50523) • Centralia, Missouri 15 Sep 15

Does the news on the tv tell the truth? How many times have you watched the news report on a situation, went online to read up more, to find out they only told you part of the truth or slanted truth? At the end of this I will...

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Letter to my our maker from a female

rubyroy @rubyroy (824) • India 14 Sep 12

Dear god, I always wonder,whether to our disobedience in the garden by our ancient grandmother,we are suffering all this injustice and inequality?We suffer the following inequalities and prejudices due to this mistake from our...

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Can't beleive everything you read, how do you sort out the truth?

sweetaprillynn @sweetaprillynn (207) • United States 3 Aug 12

In this day in age we are bombarded with news from every form of media. I read anything I can get my hands on from websites to newspapers. Sometimes I may even catch a wiff of news being circulated through social networking sites....

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Everything in the world is biased... I think.

tigershark @tigershark (202) • United States 4 May 12

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary dictates the adjective "biased" as "exhibiting or characterized by [...] a settled and often prejudiced outlook to something". Assuming that this is the correct definition (or not... this is an...

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Do you think that employees are quite bias in treating customers??

cyclopz @cyclopz (251) • Sydney, Australia 3 Apr 12

I have observed that when I go out to buy something from a store wearing a corporate attire I would usually be offered assistance by store employees on what item i am looking for. Unlike when i'm just wearing a loungewear no one...

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Voter ID

3SnuggleBunnies @3SnuggleBunnies (16374) • United States 12 Mar 12

Governor Walker (R-WI) had passed the voter ID bill requiring voters to show an ID at voting places. Now you have all these groups protesting the bill. The whole thing does not make sense to me. Supposidly the big problem was that...

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Should people with mental illness be required to disclose it to their employer?

Oneironaut @_sketch_ (5742) • United States 28 Jan 12

What do you think? Should an employee have to tell their boss that they have a mental illness? Do you think it depends on the circumstance? Does it depend on the particular illness or the severity? What if they are on medication...

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I just hate the Media for being Bias and Sensational most of the time

LetranKnight25 @LetranKnight25 (33117) • Philippines 9 Aug 11

Yeah, that's right most of the time. The first time I've realized that a network was biased and sensation was during the Philippine 2010 elections, didn't watch that network for months. then, they were blamed...

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