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How can someone relating their personal experience be "biased"? Anecdotally (in my experience as a paramedic), I agree that many people significantly underesti

• prepend 7y ago
  > How can someone relating their personal experience be "biased"? Aside from all stories we tell being biased there are many ways a story I tell about my experience can be especially biased. Exaggeration, omission, conflation, and then there’s outright deceit. There’s also the possibility that what I believe is real is not [0]. I don’t like assuming the worst or accusing people, but I certainly don’t think that all personal accounts are completely neutral. People usually tell stories with some motive and I think it’s valuable to be politely cynical, a bit. [0] https://www.ncsc.org/microsites/trends/home/Monthly-Trends-Articles/2017/The-Trouble-with-Eyewitness-Identification-Testimony-in-Criminal-Cases.aspx https://www.ncsc.org/microsites/trends/home/Monthly-Trends-A...
  • JshWright 7y ago
    > Exaggeration, omission, conflation, and then there’s outright deceit. That's not bias, that's lying. For what it's worth, the author's experience certainly matches my own (working as a paramedic). There are a lot of people out there who have significantly underestimated how hard it is to care for a loved one who is slowly dying.