DIFFERENTIATING

BIASES FROM
PREJUDICES
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 Can you recall an experience where
you are wrongly judged by other
people around you?

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 BIAS
Bias is disproportionate
weight in favor of or
against one thing, person,
or group compared with
another, usually in a way
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Example:
Female teachers give more
attention to girls.
Maureen won the contest
because one of the judges is her
father.
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 PREJUDICE
Prejudice is an affective
feeling towards a person or
group member based solely
on that person's group
membership.
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 Example:
It is sometimes assumed that
someone who is physically
disabled is also mentally disabled.
Not serving someone in a
restaurant or retail store because
of their color of skin or race.
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 Look at the following word web below, can you think of
words that you could associate with prejudice and bias?

DISLIKE UNFAIR
WRONG
RACISM FAVORITISM ISOLATION REJECTION
JUDGEMENT

BIAS PREJUDICE
UNFAIR FAVORITISM DISLIKE RACISM

ISOLATION REJECTION
WRONG
JUDGEMENT
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 HOW CAN YOU EASILY DIFFERENTIATE
bias from prejudice?
THROUGH THE RESULTS
Bias results in unfairness.
Prejudice often results in
discrimination.

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 BIA
Imagine that youS are a teacher, and you see
two students fighting. You personally know
the parent of one of them. So you jump to the
conclusion that it was the other student who
started the fight.
Picking articles or stories that are pleasing
to the owners of the media organization
or network.
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 PREJUDIC
E consider all Muslim
Some people
women to be illiterate and uneducated

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 BIA
S
An online news outlet’s biggest sponsor was
a major airline so, the outlet headlines stories
pertaining to incidents on other airlines and
hold back stories that made other airline look
bad.

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 ACTIVITY
Directions: Create a visual organizer to help you
understand the concept of bias and prejudice.

Definition
Characteristics
(own words)

BIAS

Examples (from others’

Examples (own life)
lives)

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 GIVE EXAMPLES OF CURRENT EVENTS
THAT SHOWS BIAS OR PREJUDICE and
explain your thoughts about it.

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