Blog #4

The current biases in my research paper is that I want to only consider the agents of my topic, which are homeless people. Too long, I feel that we, including the most caring people and professionals put our own emphasis on what homelessness is and what being homeless feels like. So, my bias is to hear strictly from those that are experiencing the situation. It is important to be aware of my biases while doing my literature review because research is subjective. Research can always be tested, proved or disapproved. Things and opinions often change around us. Therefore, I want to be very mindful about making absolute claims while researching, research. I believe that my biases can affect the conclusions to my literature review reports. Mainly because I am trying to get my audience to agree with the aha! moment that I think I have arrived at, while studying the literature. But I must stay open minded about different opinions in my literature review, because, while I am trying to highlight one or two points on the matter, there may be underlying evidence that contradicts or challenge the information that I believe to be understanding. Moving forward, to address those biases that we are aware of in our paper; we should probably state them, so that we can expound on the agreeable content and the challenging information. This will allow us to dig deeper into the subject(s), such as homeless people perspectives and bring more evidence of the results conducted from the literature review.