Question

Are there avenues to avoid bias in Nursing Research? If so provide an example.

Answer 1

A researchers job is to reduce or eliminate biad to the extent possible,to establish mechanisms to detect or measure when it exists ,and to take down bias es into account in interpreting study findings.And it is the job of consumers to carefully scrutinize methodologic decisions to draw conclusions about whether biases undermined the study evidence.Unfortunately ,bias can seldom be avoided totally because the potential for its occurence is pervasive.Some bias is haphazard and affects only small data segments.As an example of such random bias ,a handful of participants might provide inaccurate information because of extreme fatigue.When error is random ,distortions are likely to bias results in one direction as the other.Systematic bias ,on the other hand is is consistent,and distorts result in a single direction.For example ,if a spring scale consistently measured peoples weight as being 2 pounds heavier than their true weight,there would be systematic bias in the data on weight.