Bias Is All Around You

A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories

By: Erik Bean EdD

Narrated by: Derek Botten

Before you share information, can you separate fact from fiction? Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories is designed to help you authenticate any form of information for possible bias before you use it and/or share it in your network.

“A life worth living is a life well led”, as the famous saying goes. We need to take the lead, because inspecting information properly for mental health is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Why? We are inundated with a barrage of seemingly unending and conflicting information from seven primary sources of all potential bias. If you cannot properly assess information bias? It could:

1. Lead you to follow a false cause.
2. Leave you feeling foolish.
3. Tarnish your credibility.
4. Attract the wrong people.
5. Create undue stress.
6. Compromise your values.
7. Harm your mental health.

These undesirable outcomes need not occur! For it’s time to read between the lines and assess bias now! Together, we can chart a new discourse, one that uses information wisely, with prudence, and goodwill. Join researcher and author Erik Bean as he discusses a rigorous yet introspective journey to snuff out bias, to understand algorithms that affect Internet and social media information, and provide you simple assessment tools that allow you to be more confident if you use the information and share it. Foreword written by Tim Vos, PhD, director, School of Journalism, Michigan State University.

©2021 Ethan Bean Mental Wellness Foundation (P)2021 Erik Bean, EdD

CLARITY - MUST LISTEN OR READ

Every day we are bombarded by messages that are designed not to inform us, but to influence us. Think of it as slanted advertising to get one and all to buy in to a particular point of view. Most are aware that the reporting sources, corporate media, product marketing, and political press are slanted. How does one sort through the noise and tease out the truth and facts?

Fortunately, Dr. Erik Bean has produced a clear, straightforward way to discern bias. In an amazingly compact book, he characterizes and categorizes the sources and types of bias. Then provides tools and worksheets to combat the bias.

Dr. Bean appeared on "Richard Helppie's Common Bridge" (Podcast & YouTubeTV) to discuss his work.

Once you read or listen to "Bias is All Around You", you will want to tell your friends and family.