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This 3 page paper examines Daniel Turner's article "The Social Consequences of Bad Research" and argues that although he makes some very good points, he too is biased and shows it through his word choices. Bibliography lists 2 sources
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The first thing a reader might notice in an article about bias is Tanners use of pejorative terms. His basic thesis is that the educational system in the U.S. is
not in the sort of trouble that most critics claim it is; he believes bias has crept in so that, for example, researchers either skew the data, or fail to
find appropriate sources in the first place (Tanner, 1998). He is, in other words, questioning the work of the people who have concluded that the American system of public education
is in trouble. But for someone who states his objection to bias, he is working hard to convince readers that others work is flawed. He says for instance, that
there is a "sacred taboo in social research against addressing the problem of research bias" (Tanner, 1998). He says that he is going to come under fire from the "natural
forces of professional tribal politics" (Tanner, 1998). Thus, in the first paragraph, he has already defined other researchers as primitive and superstitious, by his carefully chosen words. He also
mentions the "so-called Coleman Report," says that researchers have "burgeoning data banks" from which they release a "deluge of increasingly elaborate empirical studies that examine the limitations of schooling rather
than its potential for furthering social progress" (Tanner, 1998). He says educational researchers move "as a flock" (Tanner, 1998). Here, he is discrediting one report by labeling it "so-called," and
then moving on to discredit the work of others by suggesting ("burgeoning," "deluge") that they have so much data that they cannot truly make sense of it, an idea carried
on by his comparison of the researchers to a flock of birds. The entire first part of the paper is riddled with these dismissive or insulting comments, and an astute
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