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of Singapore Korean International School. We would like to have 4 to 5 findings

on media bias from the survey and compare them by several criteria.

Hypothesis about student after viewing a bias media

In the latter half of the survey, we will ask which influence they have experienced

after viewing the biased media and how their though has been changed. Also, we

will ask how they do to avoid media bias. Our team believes that teenagers may

notice the negative effect of biased media and consider wise ways to avoid it.

4. Results and Discussion

Outcome (Done by Joung Woo 7/5/20, Edited by Miss Chalsea 7/7/20)

In a span of three weeks, we had 65 people to respond to our survey about media

bias. The following are the results we had gathered. Firstly, the majority although

slightly less than half, 46.2%, of the people who took the survey think that the

media is biased, while 15.4% of them think that the media is not biased. 76.9% of

them have read an article, either through news articles or through online sites, that
is media biased. Only 7.7% disagree, while 15.4% took the neutral stand. The

majority of the biased articles lean towards gender biases, which has the highest
votes in our poll, 40v votes. Other types of bias-ness stated, aside from gender,

also includes politics and race.

Much of the distorted news is found in non-formal media, 61.5%, such as social
networking sites. Only 38.5% of the participants encountered skewed posts via the

formal platforms such as the news channel or newspaper publications. This is not

surprising as most of the participants are exposed to non-formal media. Based on

our survey, these sites are the most-visited by them: Instagram, Facebook, and

YouTube. However, there are still some of them, a good 50%, who actively read

the news to keep up with the current affairs. A few formal media were named such

as CNN and the New York Times.

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