Avoiding bias in the Human Sciences
Bias is one of the most misused words in ToK. Students often use the term as a catch-all for any kind of subjectivity in the process of producing knowledge - bias is often confused with perspective. But there are times when bias is a useful word in ToK - when we want to talk about a persisting systematic distortion either in observation or measurement, or in analysis, reasoning, or coming to conclusions. Bias, then,...