Sentences with phrase «own ideological biases»

That car - loving conclusion gives away Demographia's ideological bias.

We need to overcome our ideological biases, our financial self - interests, and we need to do a good deal of listening and learning from Africans.

(c) Because these interests are socioculturally situated they are diversely concrete, threatening to fragment «understandings» of God, and they are open to the suspicion of ideological bias; but because they are interests in God the capacities they guide also require cultivation of capacities for conversation with other concrete understandings and capacities for critique of ideological self - deceptions.

Our way of reading must therefore be examined for its implicit ideological bias and blindness.

Liberation theology is conducted in a hermeneutical circle which can be entered only in an act of solidarity with the oppressed of the world, an act of such immediacy and commitment that it circumvents the danger of ideological bias normally inherent in political choices.2 From this hermeneutically privileged standpoint, liberation theology proceeds to a social scientific analysis of the situation, which is intended to uncover the structures of oppression and the extensive ideological biases both of the oppressors and of their attendant theologies.

Reinhold Niebuhr has not only exposed the ideological bias in definitions of justice, but he reminds us that the settlement of conflicting claims always involves forces which operate above and beyond considerations of principle.

In addition, they represent an ideological bias that strongly supports the existing economic, social and political powers.

While Sidney B. Simon at the University of Massachusetts and his colleagues claim that their values - clarification approach «does not aim to instill any particular set of values,» they certainly reveal their ideological bias toward the autonomous, bourgeois, rationalistic self when they talk about «learning a process for selecting the best and rejecting the worst elements contained in the various value systems.

These ideas of ideological bias are harder to dismiss when supreme court justices vote in a way that benefits the party that nominated them (as is true for the majority voting both sides of this case).

But they usually have an ideological bias, and carry out only limited research in comparison to academic standards.

They have their own ideological biases.

But some anthropologists remained generalists, studying cross-cultural patterns while cautiously treading around ideological bias, and many continued to explore how ecology affects culture.

There is no ideological bias, no life - changing intimations to be gained.

Steiner faults courses in teacher education for what he perceives as ideological bias - specifically, for their contemporary and Western orientation.

34] It would be better that media and journalistic writing realize that they can no more manipulate minds through brain washing propaganda to generate ideological bias with an instinct to presume human life as homogenous and with ulterior motives and intentions to homogenize all.

On that point, I think the following conference invitation from a branch of the National Council of Social Studies offers a simple Rorschach test to gauge how far apart we really are in determining what constitutes ideological bias.

The primary concern is not ideological bias but the apparent narrow - mindedness of today's instructional focus.

TOK aims to make students aware of the interpretative nature of knowledge, including personal ideological biases — whether these biases are retained, revised or rejected.

It has also vindicated longstanding warnings by the labor movement about profiteering and mismanagement, and their case that ideological bias rather than sound public policy is driving privatization and outsourcing.

That car - loving conclusion gives away Demographia's ideological bias.

Bring open eyes and an open mind, for if you cherish the ox of any aesthetic of ideological bias, de Kooning will gore it.

A segment of the Board of Trustees, many of whom resigned going back to 2008, the last bunch of which has resigned in June 2015, had an ideological bias against giving merit scholarships to children of the middle class, a bias that conveniently covered up their own failures of duties as trustees.

When discussing various observers» attitudes towards some body of objective data, such as the data underlying the science of climate change, those who evaluate the data without undue ideological bias might better be described as «impartial» rather than as «objective».

How ideological bias can play tricks with otherwise rational human minds is fantastic.

This goes to what I describe in Chapter 4 as the policy - dependent nature of wider public perceptions as well as our own ideological biases as a community of people actively working to create social change on the issue.

Your ideological biases, or personal gains and reliance on the fossil fuel industry are obviously clouding your judgment about some simple facts.

Fox's ideological bias is so well - known it's like the air around us; taken for granted.

The fallacies develop as a result of journal and academic ideological bias, as well as advocacy research funding, while refusal to debate protects and reinforces these established logical fallacies.

The study also found that awareness of the scientific consensus can even offset ideological biases — «Consensus information also neutralizes the effect of worldview» (see this post for more details on this paper).

For sure we know there is a strong ideological bias and corresponding identity association, or you wouldn't get that polarization.

Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.

Political and ideological bias?

The very fact that she did bail demonstrates that she's motivated by the science not any ideological bias.

If that weren't the case, then there wouldn't be identifiable ideological biases in political polling agencies and every poll would have the exact same outcomes.

At the same time, he accuses scientists, who arrived at their position through methodical consideration of the full body of evidence, of ideological bias.

You reference several blog posts by J. Duarte - who seems to feel that the Cook et al authors were dishonest idiots (the paper passed peer review of methods and results by reviewers the editors respected for domain knowledge), that the raters were blinded by ideological bias (totally ignoring the author ratings giving confirming identical results), complaining about raters discussing criteria (when it's essential for everyone to agree on the same critera, clarifying ambiguities - and that radom presentation prevented collusion on any particular item), and in general making truly absurd and unsupported accusations.

«The term Lysenkoism can also be used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives».

Apart from the irony of using a Deltoid blog to try and show that those two suffer from «ideological blinkers» (don't get me wrong, I enjoy Deltoid, in good part because he is so honest about where he is coming from that I know where I stand), the posts you link to in no way show an inescapable conclusion of ideology as far as I can see, and I stand by my position of incomprehension that you would discount anything those two say on grounds of proven ideological bias.

He uses Nobel Prize winners to show that opinions on AGW differ according to an ideological bias.

Not being rude, but I get the feeling that the conclusion is more that you don't agree with them, and don't understand how they can hold some of the views they do, which is not the same thing as ideological bias.

Individual scientists might make mistakes or have some ideological bias, however the scientific method forces people to look at data, experiments, logic etc and this is very merciless on their beliefs, politics and gut instincts.

On the first one, I think most people agree that in open - debate publications, everybody is better off if ideological bias are eliminated from the selection of advertisements.

It's a result of deep cultural flaws, one of which is an ideological bias that science is truth.

Not exact matches

James Damore was fired by Google on Monday for circulating «Google's Ideological Echo Chamber,» a highly controversial 10 - page memo suggesting that women are underrepresented at the company because of biological differences that make them less inclined to tech and leadership roles and not because of bias.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

Lacking a fertile ideological soil on which to stake a claim — even in respect to the once fashionable ideology of liberation for the blacks, the poor, the Third World — the theologian purports to turn his back on all ideologies and reclaim «raw» consciousness, which supposedly is free of any group or material biases.

Some might argue that politicians don't really believe in this bias, but simply use it as leverage to promote their own ideological positions.

Wintemute's rigor has earned the respect of some ideological opponents, but others say that his work betrays antigun biases by, for instance, selectively citing the literature in a way that minimizes the value of firearms for self - defense.

I take issue with his ideological selective bias, it creates an echo chamber on this web site that is more like a religion then science.