{"id":49506,"date":"2021-10-24T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T16:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49506"},"modified":"2021-10-24T23:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:49:52","slug":"bias-we-all-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49506","title":{"rendered":"Bias: We all have it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One word I have tried like the dickens to avoid using on critics of things I write and say is “bias.”<\/p>\n

Why is that? Because we all have it!<\/p>\n

I am biased. You are biased. The folks next door have bias. So does the dude down the street. Or the lady in church. They’re all biased.<\/p>\n

So when I hear someone accuse someone else of being “biased,” well … I cringe just a little. The term “bias” falls into that category of epithets one shouldn’t use unless you can claim purity. Where it regards that word, I cannot make such a claim.<\/p>\n

I have engaged in countless discussions with readers of commentary I have written over this issue. They call to bitch at me for something that appears under my name in a newspaper column. “Oh, you’re just biased,” they tell me, often in a loud voice. “And you’re not biased?” I might answer. “Not on this,” comes the response. To which I just plain laugh.<\/p>\n

To accuse someone of bias is to ignore one’s own weakness … which is that everyone has bias. Indeed, the only people who accuse anyone else of being biased always — without fail — happen to be on the opposite side of the issue under discussion.<\/p>\n

So if you want to accuse me of bias, spare yourself the breath. You can say I’m wrong, or that I am mistaken, or that I don’t have my facts straight.<\/p>\n

As for bias … forget about it. I won’t hear you.<\/p>\n

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One word I have tried like the dickens to avoid using on critics of things I write and say is “bias.” Why is that? Because we all have it! I am biased. You are biased. The folks next door have bias. So does the dude down the street. Or the lady in church. They’re all … Continue reading Bias: We all have it<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[608],"class_list":["post-49506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49508,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49506\/revisions\/49508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}