Detecting Bias
Detecting Bias or Point of View
- Think Tank SearchSee Think Tank Search from Harvard Kennedy School Library and Knowledge Services for a comprehensive list of think tanks and research centers.
- NewsTrustSee NewsTrust for the news from most trusted, popular (NOT scholarly) newspapers, magazines, onlines, television shows, radio programs, wire services, and blogs.
- Think TanksUse Think Tanks and the extensive list from Citizen Source, for the political leanings of policy institutes and think tanks.
- All Sides Now!All Sides Now is very interesting! It is comprehensive and clearly intent on showing multiple media perspectives on an issue. Their "bias" calculations are determined primarily by the site's visitors. How an individual user (you) rates their own political learnings as well as how he or she rates the bias of an article is added to the composite of all users. To prevent users from inundating teh system with repeat calculations a blind bias survey is administered first. Also, third party bias research is also incorporated to strengthen the reliability of the ratings. News feeds from authoritative sources.
Evaluating Sources
Evaluate Sources--CRAAP Test
The critical evaluation of information is an essential skill when conducting quality research. It is also a skill that can be used throughout your life. It involves a combination of common sense, knowledge, skepticism, and verification. Not all of the information you find will be suitable.
With so much information available, in many different formats, and from many different sources, each piece of information that you select must be carefully reviewed or evaluated to ensure the quality, authority, perspective and balance that best supports your research. But what do you look for? It can be overwhelming.
Use questions from the CRAAP test to help evaluate sources. (CRAAP acronym used courtesy of Meriam Library, California State University, Chico)
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