Map Bias Assessment Maps are a way to portray the world in a visual way. Cartographers, people who create maps, create maps to aid people in seeing various traits of the world. It could be physical traits (terrains, land mass, elevation and more) or abstract traits such as political boundaries, average lifespan, population or how developed a country is in terms of economy (GDP). Maps are the perfect way to represent a diverse continent such as Asia. There are many advantages and disadvantages in maps. The two maps I have chosen below both have many pros and cons but have advantages that make it special. Map A (Bottom Left) is a Life expectancy map of Asia. Life expectancy maps show the average age people are able to live up to in that particular country. Maps like this are created to show people the living conditions in the country. This information might be helpful to …show more content…
That is why projections were created. To illustrate the world in the most unbiased way possible, cartographers created projections in order to aid people’s comprehension of the world. The mercator projection is probably the most common projection but is extremely biased. The mercator projections is biased towards the northern hemisphere because it was generally used for navigation. The Peter’s projection was created as a result of the Mercator being so inaccurate. The Peter’s projection has very precise land mass proportion in comparison to the Mercator projection. Even though the Peter’s projection may be pretty accurate, since the world is a sphere there can never be non-distorted unbiased map. Another reason why maps are biased is because of the data it is focusing on. Maps can never show every aspect of the world such as education, political, religion, physical, GDP etc… in one map. Because of this maps will always have a topic that it is biased towards which causes it to be
Obstacle the cartographer encounter on making the map because of territories, open land has or not have been claim and barrier island. On the map on Doc A according to the cartographer showed that there was a abundant of water and soil. The proximity of water could have been an advantage because it was a way of transportation, it was also an disadvantage because it cause floods and over watering crops. The soil was an
Using coordinates or simple objectives allows the ability to make proper determination. Geographic data allows identifiable information to be offered to subscribers with the encouragement of geographical indicators. Display tools offer a realism of visual effects and the most applicable advantages. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, spatial statics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Systems of these nature offer geographers collaborative and analyzed information far more unique than traditional research techniques (Geographic Information Systems as an Integrating Technology: Context, Concepts, and Definitions,2015). Lastly, geographic reality and space relation must be gathered using input and output of data and formulaic sequences, but the tools make them applicable to user.
GIS makes it easier for students to interact and give them the chance to work with real data, maps, and patterns. This book gives your variety of scales to teach events that are considered standard-based curriculum. I would recommend this
If there are any relatively flat areas of land they would be used for herding animals or for very small settlements. There aren’t any roads because there are too many hazards of landslides and the ground is too jagged and bumpy to smooth out it numerous places. It has constant plate movement as it is on a plate boundary of so the mountains and hills are constantly changing and experiencing landslides, making life for those who live there extremely difficult. Travel is almost impossible for long distances because there aren’t any roads so horse carriages and horseback riding are popular ways to travel to nearby towns, although it takes many days to reach these settlements and towns as they are very far and few between. Since it is a very mountainous terrain and filled with hard rock and steep slopes it is the perfect place for mining coal.
The book Bias written by Bernard Goldberg explains how the liberal media distorts actual news and as a result impacts society negatively. Goldberg joined CBS News in 1972 and retired 28 years later, in 2000. Goldberg describes the distortion in present day due to no diversity of opinion in the newsroom, so no matter how many news executives go on about diversity, about ethnic, and racial diversity and how much they say we need that to go out the full story about things, they don’t seem to care much about intellectual diversity or diversity of opinions. This is why journalist can bash on a certain side or cheer the other side and wont fear about what will happen. Goldberg views Conservative news as evil and liberal media as right.
"We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we appeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational." - T. S. Eliot Personal bias is a strong motivator, whether we are aware of it or not. It can change the way we view a situation or event, just because of what we choose to pay attention to.
In Ancient Greece, they had some dilemmas with the mountains, land, and seas. In Aksum, they profited from the sea, location, land, and resources. Geography proves itself over and over again that it is the mother of history throughout different time periods. Geography still and will continue impacting our lives because where a person lives can determine their future. Recently, people who live in California have been in danger because of all the wildfires.
Human geography has a wide variety of different factors, one of those many is political geography. Political geography is mainly focused and influenced by political affairs and human territoriality. With this there are different factors that were created within political geography such as, nation, nation-state, multinational state and united-nations. There are factors of our globe which are shaped by imperialism and colonialism. All these make up our world all in different places.
To answer Bertrand Russell's implied question, no person can write an interesting story about history without bias. When readers or people get excited about a story, there has to be a slight bias, positive or negative, when writing about true events to keep people questioning and responsive enough to continue reading. Some authors will have an obvious inclination toward characters to catch people's attention and see if the readers can recognize instances where a personal opinion is being used, which may inspire people to want to` pursue a story. An author's goal is to get the reader's attention and keep it; using bias is one way to do that. As seen in Jon Krakauer's story Into the Wild, there’s a positive bias toward protagonist Chris McCandless.
Healthy People 2020 asses the health status of the United States population. According to Health People.gov “measures of general health status provide information on the health of a population. Measuring health status can be done by monitoring life expectancy, years of potential life lost, and disparities in health care access. Measuring heath status is used in health care because it makes it easier to understand health outcomes. Life expectancy has increased by thirty years during the twentieth century.
Because latitude and longitude refer to a specific location, absolute location can be described as the same thing (p.37-38). Absolute location helps people understand exactly where things are and majorly affect the culture of LA. Relative location, which shows where a place is in relation to another place, helps the native people of Louisiana know where things are located (p.37). Latitude and longitude also help mark political boundaries. Boundaries allow people to know where states or cities end and where another begins.
Gender profiling, cultural, race, groups of individuals, religion and so on. Common examples of stereotypes are: girls are bad at sports. Men get better jobs than women. Women aren’t as smart as men. All Arabs and Muslims are terrorists.
Bias is prejudice about someone or something which has been created based on incomplete information. More often bias has a negative effect as it affects other people, our way of thinking that could be driven into stereotypes frame. Every day we face with a huge number of biases and some of us even do not know about the existence of them. If it gets to that point when something suffers from it, people need to overcome biases. There are a lot of examples of biases in our world.
In this essay I will write about the strengths and weaknesses of perception as a way of knowing. Perception is the way we perceive the world through our senses. We use all five of our senses, which are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch to understand the world and interpret it. We can then say it’s a Primary way of knowledge. We can also say that, because the senses is the way our body communicates, we have at least three more senses: kinesthetic sense, which is our awareness of our body’s dimensions and movement; vestibular sense, which is the awareness of the human’s balance and spacial orientation; and organic sense, which is the manifest of the internal organs (for example, hunger or thirst).
Previous studies have shown its implication to the phenomenon of self-serving bias. Showing that cultural differences, degree of relationship, protection of individual’s self-esteem, role of individual, academic achievement, and expectancy are factors that is affected and can affect an individual’s behavior. However, in addressing the question on the explanations of why people display self-serving bias. Some researchers suggest that self-serving bias is driven by their motivation process or they are driven by the manner on how they make judgments (Anderson & Slusher, 1986; Tetlock & Levy, 1982).