Academic bias
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Academic bias is the bias or perceived bias of scholars allowing their beliefs to shape their research and the scientific community. It can refer to several types of scholastic prejudice, e.g., logocentrism, phonocentrism,[1] ethnocentrism or the belief that some sciences and disciplines rank higher than others.
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Conservative activists such as David Horowitz have argued that there is a bias against Christians and conservatives in academia.[2][3] Barry Ames et al., John Lee and Henry Giroux have argued that these claims are based upon anecdotal evidence that would not reliably indicate systematic bias,[4][5][6] and that the divide is due to self-selection due to conservatives simply being less likely to pursue an academic career.[4][7] Russell Jacoby has argued that claims of academic bias have been used to push measures that infringe on academic freedom.[8]