Thursday, April 19, 2007
Bias
Definition of BIAS:
"inclination or prejudice in favour of a particular person, thing, or viewpoint. "
Write about an incident in your life in which you have faced some form of bias.
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Yay!!!!!! im first!!!!! *celebrates*
OK. back to topic. the incident in my life where i faced bias wasjust last week. Let me explain. My sister loves watching television and I love playing computer games. However, my mother puts a restrain on my maximum computer time and my sister can watch like half the day without my mother stopping her, just because most of the time, my mother watches as well. I can play on weekends only, she can watch daily!! and mind you, she is at Sec 2, Dunman High's best class... This sometimes led me to feel jealous of her, and when I (rather rarely) argue with my mother, I will point that out, and she will just try to avoid the topic =X
Again, finally I'm first!!!!! (The first deleted post on top is mine, i felt that it was rather brief) :D
Tze How
... 2nd ^^
Ok, err... hmm... [thinking]
ok, sibling rivalry.
So it's like me and my sister are in the hall. Both of us have done our homework. It's a Sunday (play day). Both of us rush towards the computer room, then we quarrel, then my parents come in and stop us. My parents ask my sister to give way to me(don't know why, probably cause I'm younger) and i can play for like two hours!
I find it abit unfair.
pessimistic-... only 2nd place...
Sad. I'm the THIRD. Anyway.
The incident where I faced bias:
When I was in P2/3 (yes, so long ago ;_;) my friend didn't like me anymore just because I got better marks than she did in my English exams. =( She was really jealous, but now she's in a different sch so luckily I don't face much bias anymore :)
-GRACE!
Awwww... Third....
In primary 3, when i got second in class, my friends called me and my friend that came in first "geeks" . But my teacher scolded them and got them to write apology letters.
Yay! I'm so horrid!
Ahhh! Grace beat me by one minute!~ I was still getting my password right!
The incident in my life where i had faced bias was when i was blamed for something i did not do just because the person who blamed me was trying to cover up what he did. But in the end, the truth came out and i was not blamed anymore,but the person who blamed me got the blame instead
Great I'm fourth now.
5th
Once, in a chess touranment, a Nanyang School oponent scolded me bad words then he reported to the arbiter saying that I had Disturbed him. Well, Arbiters are bias towards Nanyang and ACS so she "warned me" not to disturb my oponent BLAHBLAH...
I'm sixth. Aww..
Anyway, when I was 7, one day, my brother and I quarreled. I ended up being beaten to the sofa with my brother sitting on me. He pulled my hair and I yelled. my mother came over and scolded me for... I dunno! Biasness I guess.
This happens all the time. Bleh...
Only b'cos he's younger. No fair!
Nicolette Lee
Err... 7th... lucky number?
Bias... I experienced very little biasness as i am the only child. Let me think... When i was 8 years old i quarreled with one of my classmate, who was the teacher's pet, the teacher saw it and scolded me without listening to my side of the story... :(
Ong Jian Chong
lucky 7! yays
one incident in which i faced bias was like tze how. i have time restraints for computer cos my sis does not put things untidily like the OTHER BOY IN MY FAMILY. so, i am often limited to 1 hour and my sis 2 hours
The time when I was being biased against was when my primary 2 teacher named Mdm Suriati gave Jie Min 1st place just because he beat me by 0.3 marks. In the first place, it wasn't supposed to be rounded off. It's really sad, ain't it.
nine is the square root of 3 yay!
My broher and me have a very LONG lasting fight ever since I had seen him walk. When I was eight, he actually decided to fight me on rights for the computer. I started overpowering him when my mum came in. and the usual fireworks started. "hes younger than you, be a role model yadyadyadyadyadyadya..." it was so irritating. my brother stood behind my mother and made silly faces.
My is somewhat like Nicolette's.
I have a younger brother too. And the thing is, when we were younger, he could have his own way because he lashes out his killer weapon: crying.
Then, my mum comes, then scold me, then i have to give in to him, and so on. It's the same everytime.
Thank goodness it doesn't happen now!
13! wahahaha. :D
yes, bias between siblings. (very normal i guess)
okay. i need to use the computer and so does my sister. but i only get like half an hour and my sister gets like 2 hours or something. yeahyeah. unfair.
but now, there is a solution! haha. bought a laptop so there is never a need to fight over computers again! xD
}!CANDICE.
12th?
Well anyway...
Bias...
I feel that some computer games are bias like games which need you to spend money on (like MapleStory). You have to buy their stuff to get good things.
eg. Buy A-cash to get stuff in the shop which would help you to do a certain thing like megaphone and so on.
You cannot buy from the shop if you do not have any A-cash. You have to... they force you to buy A-cash when there is something there you really want like Gachapon!!!
They just want you to put in moneyy into their game for money to be stuffed into their pockets. Aren't they rich enough?
Bias? Ahh...
[Start]
Oh well there was this time I was doing some stuff on my dad's laptop, when my bro suddenly come in and starts wreaking havoc with the computer He was messing things up so I told him to go away and come back later when I am finished with my business and he started crying then my dad came in and told me that I could do my stuff later and let my brother (For your info: he is like around four and has absolute zero idea how to use a computer)have the computer.
[End]
Chen Jie
One incident in which I have faced bias:
When I was in P1/3 [long way back] and we were having Chinese dictation, my classmate beside me slid the answers out from his file and copied it onto his paper.
I informed the Chinese teacher, however he turned a blind eye because:
-My classmate WAS only seven
-He was also the best in Chinese
I think that regardless of age it is rather unfair that while other people spent time to memorise the dictation, he could get away with copying it.
-CHING YING--
since I am an only child, I do not really have those sort of problems more of less relating to sibling rivalry. Lets get to the point. Everytime I get back my results, my parents would think it isn't very good and ask me to compare with the one who got the highest in class. If I ain't more of less close to that score i would be lectured and lectured.
I have faced biasness when I was P4 especially. I would not like to tell some grandfather story, so:
"Useless", "stupid" and a word which I would not like to mention were thrown at me by my parents. Why? Because I didn't pack my bag. Why? Because I stayed up late to do my homework.
My parents also said this to my oldest sister:
"You are still living in my house so you must still listen to me."
That really hurt me, even though I wasn't scolded. They're obviously biased towards my middle sister. So she didn't do exceptional for PSLE. But they keep saying that "see she everytime study one not like you like that".
It's disgusting, seeing my parents like that. That's why this time I'm doing my own decision on which school I want to go, and not let others force me what to do. I'm sick and tired of it.
-mich
I love myself a lot.
Biasness (spelling?), hmmm.. a touchy topic. OK, 1 bias-ed (?) situation I faced was when I was playing floorball (talent fiesta) and a star player (on my team) lobbed the ball towards the goal and it went in. He said that he had scored the goal but actually I had hit it into the other side of the net. If I had not hit it, it would have surely be blocked by the goal keeper. The thing is, there were no witnesses there to see me score except the goal keeper (I did not manage to get him to prove that I had scored the goal). After the match, we argued about who scored the goal and in the end, it was 1 against all as they all thought that as I was not a good player, the star player was the one who scored the goal. So they praised him not me :(
ADAM
Bias....
1. Sibling rivalry, wheneever I use the computer, she cries (a little exaggerating, she's 4 this year after all) and demands to use it to 'play' (it is ridiculously simple). I could see through her crocodile tears (really) but my parents forced me to give up the computer to let her 'play'. She is also allowed to do whatever she wants, complains immediately, cries crocodile tears if things doesn't go her way and follows me around so much I cannnot concentrate, and she ALWAYS run to my parents and complains even if its something utterly pointless.
2. computer games, some of the better players always kill you. That way you cannot get stronger(game-wise) and kill them at all, so you're actually stuck at that time and have to sneak out to try and level. THey should at least let us level, become stronger then kill us, it's more fun for both parties that way as we can both get a challenge from each other. Fortunately this doesn't happen in all the games.
P.S.:longest..post..ever...^^
err, kendrick, 9 isn't the squareroot of 3. it's the other way round.
I think most of us faced this before, but to most people, being in GEP means that you are smart, to have passed the test and all. Most non-GEP people seem to ask me for homework help because of this, making me twice as busy then usual.
Either that, or they laugh when I make a mistake because I'm supposed to be the perfect, smart "geek". I think I'm usually a... clumsy and gullible person? Well, yes, to the people who know me.
Of course, they refuse to believe me when I tell them there is no difference, passing a test doesn't say it all.
-Aileen:3
Erm.........Bias eh...
Well, I faced bias many times in my life before. A recent incident was with my cousin. I could not beleive it! Well, anyway I was watching T.V. (my favourite programme) when my cousin prefered to play chess instead of watching T.V. My mother forced me to entertain him instead of watching my favourite programme. So, that's when I faced biasness.
Biasness. Biasness... Aha! I faced biasness in P4 when my Malay teacher thought that I was good in Malay just because I am in the GEP since Natasha and Adam are good at it and they are in the GEP. So I did not really like her.
I am twenty second? Probably.
Some mainstream students think that the GE students are conceited and arrogant, when we actually do not think or brag that we are better than them. How unfair is that?
Well, at least most of my mainstream friends are not like those biased students. :D
~[yongjie}
PS. This is NOT the last post.
Ok...so I'm niether the first not he last.
Anyway, biasness...hmm...Candice and Letitia should know it. It happened during talent fiesta. So there was this male teacher who was keeping track of the scores for THE ULTIMATE FRISBEE GAME!!! and I as the team captain obviously told him the right scores and Michelle also admitted that we had victory. Then, us Mitchell won ALL games and got first place, but during prize giving they announced that GW got first place! The entire group of people around the P6 frisbee girls went in an "uproar". It was quiet because Mrs Chong was behind us. Fortuanately, we got Mr Shankar to help. Then, we realised that the scores had been changed, that GW got the medal.
WE MITCHELL HAD TO GO BACKSTAGE TO RECEIVE OUR PRIZES BACKSTAGE!!! NO GLORY NOTHING!!!!! man...it was frustrating. anyway it had been like this for house practice and talent fiesta, and it was all the same teacher. even the coaches acknowledged the scores that Mitcheel won, not GW! This did not happen when other teachers took scores, so why is this teacher so bias against MITCHELL??? and he is a GW supporter...i think ... sigh...i guess that is life...
own comment -
i agree with aileen, hykael* and yong jie
*did i spell it wrongly?
The incident in my life where I experienced bias was a few weeks ago. My mum complains about me because I usually sleep late, then she forces me to sleep even though I might not have completed my homework. When my brother sleeps late due to homework, she not only allows him to stay up, she even asks me to help him in his work.
saiko-i'm 18th out of 41
not bad, i should say!
errrr....i mean 26th
i am not sure whether this is bias, but this year, after talent fiesta, i was sooo happy that it was over that i threw my bottle in the air but i couldn't catch it and acidentally kicked it. then i got scolded
elishah
Bias
Everytime I get back my results, my parents would think it isn't very good and compare my results to my sis(primary 3). If my results in persentage was less then her i would be lectured and told that i should be have better results and be a good role model for my sis. Firstly, i am in gep and she is still in mainstream. Secondly when she gets bad results my parents just turn a blind eye.
sam, that incident was quite hard-breaking for us GW girls too ):
Well...
There was this instance a very long time ago (perhaps when I was about seven) and my dad and godbrother were playing an XBox game together. I admit I do not really like to play these kind of games, but at that point in time I was very bored and had nothing to do. I was kind of annoyed to find out that both of them were actually playing a soccer game. (I’m not exactly a soccer fan). However, I decided to join in all the same.
At first, both of them were reluctant to allow me to play. They said that I was a girl and I was too young to know how to play soccer. I was very angry. I thought they were sexist. After much persuasion, though, FINALLY they allowed me to join in and my godbrother had this really smug look on his face.
Somehow, in the end I won by two goals and my godbrother was rendered speechless. I guess he should not have been so gender-biased towards me. =)
-Natasha
-That proves it.. *GIRLS RULE!!*-
Cant remembar quite well but i used to be a loner faced quite some bias from other kids then.
also i stll is given away by handy house 6/11 + 6/12 in pe
AARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH...I'm so late!!!
Anyway, I feel that many mainstream pupils are extremely biased in their thinking when it comes to GEP pupils like...ME! Even my so-called "best friend" before I joined GEP thought I was geeky and was biased against ME. It was horrible to have my (ex)"best friend" be biased against not only ME but my fellow classmates too.
~P.S. This is my shortest post!!!!
~P.S.S. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
~P.S.S.S. Loves self...
Natasha's post makes her look really ego. (Just like myself!)
~P.S. I'm too ego to say that I came in 32nd
~P.S. Oops...shoudn't have said that...
When i cant finish my homework early and have to stay up very late to complete it, my mother scolds me for not doing it faster. If my younger brother does the same and ive already completed my work, my mother will point to him and say, look at him, he is so hardworking.Its just so infuriating!
p.s Natasha i dont think the xbox was even out yet when you were seven.. Lol
whenever i think about biasness i think about a CERTAIN person who always gets picked to go on special courses and do special things and that i do not have such privileges even though I'm better at that subject than THAT person. all THAT person is, is a TP
that is biasness
Hope i'm not last...
The incident in my life where i faced biasness was..not too long ago. So, it was that time when I had gotten the highest marks in my ballet exam in my ballet class (yes, I admit, I take ballet) in P2. The other girls were like, why did Sarah beat us? She isn't that good in her studies either. Yup, almost all of them were jealous. And they almost didn't talk to me for a few weeks. ):
-Sarah
Meh, it's not all that rare when I get dirty looks from mainstream kids. I mean, I'm not STREAMIST or anything, but sometimes they're all Hmph, she's a GEPer, they're all proud brats who think they're so smart. Honestly, it annoys me. >:( Oh, yeah, and a *certain* incident where the blame was all put on me because I was P6 and the offending party was P1, therefore the teacher judged that 'P1s are little kids and are innocent and are always being bullied'. Geeeeeez. Eh, that's two incidents, but hey, the more the merrier XD
OH NO PLEASE TELL ME I'M NOT LAST.
...dang.
Oh, and...uh...I don't like double-posting, but could someone PLEASE translate this for me? Please? )):
"Cant remembar quite well but i used to be a loner faced quite some bias from other kids then.
also i stll is given away by handy house 6/11 + 6/12 in pe"
No offence, but I have no idea what it's supposed to mean ;__;
err. Am I the last?
When I was younger, my mother let my brother watch television, use the computer, etc. practically everything! Also, she doesn't really bother as much about his homework and studies. However, she nags at me to do my homework and revise all the time. And my time on computer and reading is limited. She nags at me if I read when I have not finished my homework.
But thank goodness she changed.
Sandra
Well, how about this lame one.
Schools insist that girls are not as good as boy, who is rubbish. girls have been shown to be as ood as boys in sports. so... the school's views are biased.
This is a follow-up on my first comment. I forgot to add this in.
Every time I do work on the computer, my brother butts in and goes "zie (older sister in Chinese), can let me play? Please lah! I only have 5 minutes." And my mother (if she's there) will always side him. And I have to keep shifting places, not to mention moving my homework and dragging another chair to another table to do my work. And in the end, he plays for 20 minutes instead of 5 minutes and my mother doesn't stop him! He just begs her and she says, "OK. 10 more minutes." And that 10 minutes never end. Then I get so frustrated.
[Translation for Letitia]
"I can't remember quite well but I used to be a loner. I faced biasness from other kids then.
Also, I am still "unwanted" by the people in handy house in 6/11 + 6/12 in PE to play in the games for them"
[End of Translation]
Sandra
-To Ian-
Err.. right.
I don't really play these kind of things, you see. I can't tell the difference between an XBOx and a playstation. I know it was some kind of electronic game though.
*shrugs* whatever.
gahhh..
Another Midnight posting (missed the dateline, oh no!)
So anyway, once I was playing soccer with the guys and then a teacher walks past and says, "Wow, a female referee." Not that I don't like being called a referee but I think people should not stereotype and think that girls can't play soccer and only boys can. Not that I'm a good player either.
ahwells
~~kimberleyy
PS I don't play soccer anymore now
PPS Sorry about missing the dateline by a few minutes! xD
Agg... this cast is getting in my way... wha'? oh no i missed the deadline by 9 hours & 19 min!!
Anyways, my sister is always very petty about somethings like computer time. So, sometimes i play longer than my sister and then she start going not fair not fair ...BLAHBLAHBLAH then my parents come in and lets her play more than the difference...........
...................................
...and then i realise that she played more than 1hour overtime
grumble...stupid cast
Am i last again? oww...
anyway, on topic, i feel that when my sister does something bad, she gets scolded a little. yet, when i do the same thing(usually a lot later) the sky falls on me. (i dont know if there's an idiom like that, but i like it) And when i ask for something, i have a lot less chance of getting it than my sister.
-marcus ooi
I agree with Ka Keng and Kimberley. There was this irritating boy saying that I shouldn't play soccer because I was a GIRL PREFECT.
Even if he wants to shoo me can he use a better reason? Anyway he did NOT own the soccer ball, so what right had he when the owner allowed me to play?
So us girls are considered little miserable dainty weaklings? I disagree. Who is Condoleezza Rice to them? Who is Mother Theresa to them?
Their big achievements are much bigger than David Beckham playing soccer.
My parents always scold me for losing my temper when i fight with my brother, but its almost always him who starts it!!! And then they just say things like "Don't do that again." or "You know that he always tries to irritate you." and just leave it like that. No justice.
I'd like to comment on Michelle's last post ^_^
Not that I think that girls are "worst" than guys (we're EQUALS:)), but don't you think you're "card-stacking" when you compared Mother Theresa to David Beckham? There are definitely some females who are better than males, and males better than females!
Yes, shoot me with a machine gun.
I agree with Aileen.
David Beckham's field of achievement- if there's such thing :D- is totally different from that of Mother Theresa.
But there is still gender bias in the world- like how some teachers seem to have this stereotype of girls, that they all have super-neat handwriting and will automatically beat boys in that aspect.
However, admittably, I have yet to see a girl's handwriting be more untidy than a guy's! ;_;
*So all in all, girls rule? ^,^ Just kidding, guys! Don't take offence.
-GRACE <3
Well, Grace, my handwriting was far worse than Benedict's in Kindergarten if you want to see a boy's handwriting which is neater than a girl's. Just check out my K2 yearbook, his work was featured like 6 times while mine was featured once (being in America for the earlier half of the year obviously didn't help).
PS My handwriting has improved greatly since K2. ^^
Well, Grace, I think that girls DO have neater handwriting in upper primary, but then, people also expect boys to be good at sports (and better than girls!), I suppose.
My point is that regardless of which gender you are you will face some kind of biasness, just in different fields.
I did not say that all males are like David Beckham or so. I'm just stating an example that women can also contribute a lot.
I did not say that all females are better than males. I was just giving an example to a soccer player as it is related to my incident and a saint.
I reread my post quite a few times and I feel that I am only comparing them to David Beckham, only him, no one else.
-mich
I agree with Ching Ying... It's like nearly everyone -in books and everything- thinks that males are so athletic and stuff. Like how most of the famous athletes are MALES. (Capitals are for emphasis not for hatred or anything.)
Also, I noticed that many superheros/war heros (well, famous ones)tend to be males, like Superman and stuff. I mean heros as in the general sense, not in the HERO not HEROINE sense. Why isn't there more Wonderwomen (this sounds weird) and Elektras (haha, Star Movies today) in the world of heros??
=GRACE :)
ps// GUYS, PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ANY OFFENCE.
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