scholarly journals Poor, biased reporting of daily covid death statistics without perspective creates fear

BMJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. n640
Author(s):  
Holly Young
Keyword(s):  
Biased Reporting

Crime Reporting: Profiling and Neighbourhood Observation

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Kalyan Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Crime Reporting ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Biased Reporting ◽  
Neighbourhood Structure ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

We consider the effect of giving incentives to ordinary citizens to report potential criminal activity. Additionally we look at the effect of 'profiling' and biased reporting. If police single out or profile a group for more investigation, then crime in the profiled group decreases. If a certain group is reported on more frequently through biased reporting by citizens, crime in the group reported on actually increases. In the second model, we consider a neighbourhood structure where individuals get information on possible criminal activity by neighbours on one side and decide whether to report or not based on the signal. When costs of reporting are low relative to the cost of being investigated, the costs of investigation increase in the number of reports and there is at least one biased individual. We show there is a "contagion equilibrium" where everyone reports his or her neighbour.

scholarly journals Press: The steady drip of biased reporting

BMJ ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 320 (7246) ◽  
pp. 1414-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Biased Reporting

Understanding Sense-Making on Social Media During Crises

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Stieglitz ◽  
Milad Mirbabaie ◽  
Jennifer Fromm
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Information Value ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Biased Reporting ◽  
Crisis Situations

Individuals are increasingly using social media during crisis situations to seek information. However, little is known about how they utilize social media to gain an understanding of crisis situations. The aim of this study was to close this gap by conducting sense-making interviews with 18 German social media users. A qualitative content analysis revealed the following sense-making barriers: low information value, negative emotions, biased reporting, taking advantage, volume of information, limited knowledge, speed of information dissemination, and technical barriers. Furthermore, users applied the individual sense-making strategies of searching, selecting, verifying, enriching, interpreting, and sorting, as well as the collective strategies of distributing, communicating, and reporting. This article contributes to research by providing categorizations of sense-making barriers and strategies in the context of crisis situations. Furthermore, suggestions are made for how emergency agencies could utilize social media for crisis and continuity management.

Biased reporting?

1956 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 342-342
Author(s):  
Joseph N. Ruocco
Keyword(s):  
Biased Reporting

Biased reporting of East European science

Nature ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 281 (5727) ◽  
pp. 98-98
Author(s):  
LEE LORCH
Keyword(s):  
East European ◽  
European Science ◽  
Biased Reporting

scholarly journals Serum α-fetoprotein in pediatric oncology: not a children’s tale

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 783-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Ferraro ◽  
Andrea Panzeri ◽  
Federica Braga ◽  
Mauro Panteghini
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Pediatric Oncology ◽  
Germ Cell Tumors ◽  
Reference Intervals ◽  
Testicular Germ Cell ◽  
Term Infants ◽  
Novel Studies ◽  
Wide Variability ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Biased Reporting

AbstractBackgroundMeasurement of α-fetoprotein (AFP) concentrations in the serum of infants is useful for the management of testicular germ cell tumors, hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. Here, we provide a critical review of the available information about pediatric reference intervals (RI), focusing on their utility in interpreting AFP as an aid for cancer diagnosis.ContentEvidence sources in the available literature were critically appraised. Out of 3873 retrieved papers, 24 were finally selected and carefully inspected, and six of them overcame exclusion criteria (i.e. methodological limitations in the study design, statistical gaps, drawbacks in traceability of the AFP assay to higher order materials and/or biased reporting of AFP results). Preterm and term infants up to the 3rd month of life exhibited the highest average AFP concentrations, but the attempt of defining RI by data pooling and partitioning for age intervals was impeded by the wide variability of data. The inability of defining robust RI in the first months of life made difficult, if not impossible, using upper reference limits for ruling out malignancies with a single AFP result. Evaluating the behavior of AFP concentrations 5 days from the baseline result, if this exceeds risk thresholds partitioned for age, according to the formula Xt=X0*2−t/HL(where: t=days elapsed for AFP retest; HL=AFP half-life according to age; X0=AFP baseline concentration, and Xt=predicted AFP concentration at day 5), could give a better information.SummaryNovel studies defining AFP RI in infants based on robust methodology are warranted to improve the interpretation of AFP results in pediatric oncology. In the meantime, algorithms based on both serum AFP absolute concentrations and HL may aid in cancer diagnosis.

scholarly journals Increasing dependence on industry-funded research creates higher risk of biased reporting in medical physics

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 100601
Author(s):  
Sonja Dieterich ◽  
Paul J. Keall ◽  
Colin G. Orton
Keyword(s):  
Medical Physics ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Biased Reporting

scholarly journals Discourse, difference, and dehumanization: justifying the Canadian Japanese internment, 1940-1949

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Marcinkowski
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Canadian Identity ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Japanese Internment ◽  
Biased Reporting ◽  
Japanese Ancestry

This thesis argues Canadian Members of Parliament used the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour as an opportunity to enforce a dominant “us versus them” narrative in order to justify the internment of approximately 22,000 Canadians of Japanese ancestry. National and local newspapers reinforced this narrative through uncritical and biased reporting which negatively framed the Japanese against a more idealized and white “Canadian” identity. Critical discourse analysis was applied on several debates in the House of Commons and news articles in the Daily Colonist and the Globe and Mail between 1940 and 1949, to examine the articulation of social relations – in this case, race and ethnicity – with the goal of uncovering the power relations embedded within the discourse. The findings reveal a clear “us versus them” narrative, whereby Canadians of Japanese ancestry were constructed as “yellow,” “bad,” and “unwanted,” as opposed to white Canadians who were “good” and “loyal.”

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