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Evaluating Sources

What is Bias

How Journalists Minimize Bias

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/how-journalists-minimize-bias

Confirmation Bias

Also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.    

 

Backfire Effect

The "backfire effect" is a term coined by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler to describe how some individuals when confronted with evidence that conflicts with their beliefs come to hold their original position even more strongly.
Taken from http://skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html

Determining Bias in Facebook

Ways to Combat Bias and Backfire Effect

What are your beliefs and biases?

Bias in Academic Journals